Stories of Meals
Stories of Meals
List of educational resources for parents and teachers to read online, to download in PDF format, or to listen to as audio stories
Our stories are a great tool to improve the education of your children and enhance your family atmosphere. Whether in family or in the classroom, as audio or as reading, using pictures or simple text, parents and teachers will discover with them a new way to successfully teach values to children, while enjoying each and every learning minute.
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List including all our stories about Meals . Many creative short stories to teach values. Resources for parents and teachers
Educational Value
- Generosity
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| Generosity starts with yourself. Before demanding from others, we should be the first to give without expecting anything in return. | Space | Some gigantic beings |
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To get some idea of the size of the Molokos you have to see them from afar. If you were to put yourself next to them, they wouldn't even see you, and if the biggest of our fairytale giants were to be at their side, probably the enormous Molokos still wouldn't see...
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Educational Value
- Healthy Eating and capricious
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| Teaching how to eat “junk food” sparingly, and not abuse it. | A burger joint | A burger and its consumers |
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Once upon a time there was a burger who had many lives. Each day she would wake up in the burger bar, and patiently wait her turn to be cooked by the chefs, before being served to...
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Educational Value
- Healthy family life
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| Not only children should get involved in eating more healthily. It is emphasised that the most elaborate, most processed, foods are usually the least healthy | A doctor’s surgery | A girl, her parents, and a doctor |
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Anna Dyatt was driving every doctor in the area mad. Her dad had a belly which he used to open doors with, and her mum was of similar proportions; but Anna was a very slim and svelte girl. Anna had always been very picky about food...
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Educational Value
- Learn to forgive
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| The law of “an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth” solves nothing. What does solve things is knowing how to forgive. | A frog’s restaurant next to a pond | A frog, a toad, and a frying pan |
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Fran the Frog was the best chef in the whole swamp, and all the toads and frogs of the region enjoyed coming to her very select restaurant. Her 'Flies in spicy bug sauce' and her 'Caramelised dragon flies wings with honey of bee' were the kind of delicacies that every self-respecting frog should try; and that made...
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Educational Value
- Healthy life
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| Although you have to make some effort to live a healthy and happy life, it pays to eat a little of everything, and do some exercise. | The witches’ forest | Some evil witches, a boy, and a doctor |
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Many, many years ago everyone was strong and healthy. They ate a very varied diet, and especially loved fruit, vegetables, and fish. Everyone took daily exercise, and they enjoyed themselves playing and leaping about. The Earth was the healthiest place you could imagine, and ...
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Educational Value
- Obedience
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| Behind the rules laid out by those who love us lies a desire to help us and protect us, even though it might not seem so to us | A supermarket | A butcher and a carnivorous plant |
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Flora was a carnivorous plant, but truly in the meat-eating sense. She lived in a supermarket, next to her friend Porky the butcher's counter. Porky treated her with great affection and attention, and always had some morsel of meat to give her at the end of each day. But one day Flora didn't get her ration...
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Educational Value
- Be respectful and kind to others
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| Moral of the story | Setting | Characters |
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| With very little effort, and some tact, you can be considerate to, and include everyone | A town in the time of the wizards | A wizard and the townsfolk |
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Once upon a time there was a good, cheerful wizard who loved to use his magic to make everyone happy. He was also quite an unusual wizard because he was allergic to a load of different foods. He had to be...
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