Sparkle Stories

21/08/2025

This week at Sparkle our theme is all about setting intentions for the coming school year. How do you want to feel this year? One really useful way to figure this out is through the act of journaling! 📖✏️

Taking the time to get our fears and uncomfortable feelings down on paper helps us both to understand ourselves and to allow the feelings to move. We can track our thinking and learning over time. We can get a sense of what's important to us. We can even discover new things about ourselves! In this article, we offer some useful journal prompts to help get the process going for you! You can find them here: https://www.sparklestories.com/blog/post/sparkle-craft-journal-prompts/

🎧 Be sure to listen to the Martin & Sylvia: More Adventures! story "Special Secret Books" to help get you into the journaling spirit!

20/08/2025

This school year we're harnessing the power of the Windward Ho! girls and all their strength and determination. Want to join us? This is why we felt it fitting to feature the first collection in the Windward Ho series, titled "Windward Ho! Fore & Aft (Book One)." ✨🏴☠️

When seven young girls win a day-long journey aboard the great pirate ship "The Windward" — a real-life model of a fictional ship — they never suspect the true Halloween adventure that awaits them on October 31. Nine-year-old Periwinkle “Wink” Mackenzie finds herself in need of all the information she has learned from multiple readings of her favorite book series, The Windward Chronicles. Tasked unexpectedly with leadership as the ship’s captain, Wink overcomes her shyness and learns to draw out the strengths of each girl in order to achieve their common goal: to return home safely.

To listen to the full collection of stories, just press play here: https://www.sparklestories.com/collection/windward-ho-book-one-fore-and-aft/ We hope they inspire you!

19/08/2025

With school starting again, we've rounded up all of our very best back-to-school content in one place! 🍎📚 We’ve gathered some of our favorite stories along with helpful guides on how to use them for parents and teachers. You’ll also find some Sparkly back-to-school projects, recipes, crafts and more!

To download a copy simply click here: https://www.sparklestories.com/blog/post/sparkle-stories-back-to-school-guide-printable/

We hope this is helpful with the back-to-school transition season! We've GOT this!

18/08/2025

Bring a little bit of Sparkle with you this school year, with our custom Sparkle Stories lunch bags craft! 🎒✨

Sometimes, an old-fashioned lunch bag is just what's needed. It fits easily into a backpack, it's easy to throw in the laundry, and best of all — it's so fun to customize! Simply have your kiddo pick out their favorite Sparkle character and follow the instructions outlined in our blog post here: https://www.sparklestories.com/blog/post/sparkle-craft-custom-sparkle-stories-lunch-bags/

18/08/2025

✨ Kind words from fellow Sparklers ✨

15/08/2025

Our original audio stories invite children into magical worlds that help children navigate big emotions while developing crucial listening skills. No screens, no distractions—just pure storytelling that calms busy minds and nurtures creativity. ✨

Discover the difference calm can make by visiting: www.sparklestories.com/soothing-stories-for-back-to-school/ and start your listening journey today.

Original audio stories for kids. Our 1500+ stories for children ages 3-9+ are developmentally appropriate, help reduce screen time, and nurture growing minds.

15/08/2025

This fun and easy craft is the perfect way to help kids personalize their back-to-school supplies and get those creative juices flowing! ✏️ Also a great way to bring your favorite Sparkle character to life! ✨

It also makes for a great handwork moment and helps little ones practice those fine motor skills. Polymer clay is easy to work with, relatively mess free, inexpensive, and a bit more durable than air-drying clay.

Check-out the full tutorial here: https://www.sparklestories.com/blog/post/diy-polymer-clay-pencil-toppers-for-kids-sculpt-sparkly-characters/

14/08/2025

Is your child feeling a little shakey about heading back to school? 🎧✨ Our newest blog post will help to transform those worries into excitement (truly!) with our carefully curated collection of transition tales and some helpful tips to send them back confident and ready to tackle the new school year! You can read the full blog post here: https://www.sparklestories.com/blog/post/soothe-back-to-school-anxiety-three-stories-and-four-quick-tips/

13/08/2025

Can you believe it's back-to-school time!? 🎒🎧

These three original audio stories are specially designed to help prepare children for heading back to school and all the feelings that come with it. Just press play and see if they don't help ease some of those jitters!

You can listen to the full collection of stories here: https://www.sparklestories.com/collection/back-to-school-stories/

We hope they help!

12/08/2025

Seeing as this week's theme is 'Forget Fitting In' and harnessing the power of YOU in all your wonderful uniqueness, we thought it only fitting to re-introduce you to the incredible and unique main characters from the Life as a Martian collection: Johnny Boy and Suzie Q 🪐👽🌿

Welcome to Greenhorn: a curious town of curious people including the most recent transplants from small town Mars Landing, Nebraska - remarkably named the Nebraska family. Most of the residents see the Nebraskas as just another strange bunch to add to the mix, but some locals immediately spot the truth: that they are indeed from Mars … not the town, but the planet!

Learn more about Johnny Boy and Suzie Q in this wonderfully unique collection by swiping through! ➡️

11/08/2025

This week at Sparkle we're talking all about forgetting to fit in as we head into a new school year. So, we felt it was time to feature our favorite collection all about this — Life as a Martian!

Between Orlando and the Kennedy Space Center, there’s a backwoods Florida town called Greenhorn. It's a curious town of curious people including the most recent transplants from small town Mars Landing, Nebraska - remarkably named the Nebraska family. Most of the residents see the Nebraskas as just another strange bunch to add to the mix, but some locals immediately spot the truth: that they are indeed from Mars … not the town, but the planet.

🎧 You can listen to the full collection of audio stories here: https://www.sparklestories.com/collection/life-as-a-martian/

09/08/2025

We're all utterly unique, and deliciously particular. And this life is about - at least in part - the joy of experiencing ourselves in full. You discovering you. 🫶🏼

So as we head into the school year and the busy-ness of fall, forget fitting in. Who needs it?? Particularly when there's all the wonder of your precious self to be discovered and enjoyed!

You can read our full blog post on the topic here: https://www.sparklestories.com/blog/post/forget-fit-in-who-are-you-really/ We hope it inspires you as you enter into a new school season. 🫶🏼