Fractured Fairy Tales : Taco Tuesday/Ichthyosaur Thursday Cinderella

We have been engaging in fairy tale study during our small reading group times. Our Taco Tuesday group and our Icthyosaur Thursday group had each read a different version of the classic Cinderella story. Our Tuesday reading group created the first part of our new fairy tale, and our Thursday reading group added on to it. Note: We are still collecting pictures to add to this blog post. If you would like to make an illustration to go with our fairy tale, please leave a comment in the comments section.

Annalisa's artwork

Once upon a time, there was a girl named Payasina. She had long hair down to her feet. She loved to make people laugh. She had two very nice stepsisters. Payasina was always playing jokes on them. She liked to tell them to close their eyes and she would have a big surprise for them. When they opened their eyes, she had left the house. One day, the prince sent invitations to everyone in Richmond to his big BBQ party on the beach. Payasina really wanted to go, but her family said, ‘No, you are too clumsy. We don’t want you to trip on that long, long hair!’ Then “POOF!” a fairy godmother appeared. “Bippity boppity boo, I’ll turn your sneakers into clown shoes!” And next thing she knew, she was wearing bright red and blue clown shoes. And a huge grey elephant was waiting outside her house.  So she hopped on the  elephant and they headed towards the beach. She noticed dogs running all over the place. The elephant was clomping so hard that he shook the steak off of the grill. Two little chihuahuas raced over and ate the steak before they could get it back. The prince, who was also the grillman, looked up on top of the elephant’s back. He was shocked to see a clown with blue hair smiling back at him. He laughed so hard, he fell backwards. He tried to get up, but when he saw her face, it was just a normal little princess. The elephant’s trunk knocked over the radio, and some jam music started blasting. The prince and Payasina started dancing. The clock struck twelve, and she turned back into her beautiful self and the clown slippers disappeared. Then she stepped on some beach sticks, and got an ouchie on her foot. So he grabbed a royal band-aid and carefully wrapped her little toe. They said good-bye, and they lived happily ever after. P.S. Maybe they got married after 5 years of being friends.