Tag: Fairy Tale

May 1st Mother Goose Day

May Holidays

Mother Goose is supposed to be a series of stories to provide entertainment, and moral lessons, for children. They were written back in the 1650’s and surprisingly the lessons they teach still have value today. Stories like Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty and Little Red Riding Hood are primary examples of what you might expect in these fables. Sometimes they can even be a little bit scary but generally have a happy, though not realistic, ending.

How to celebrate – Read Mother Goose. See how many Mother Goose stories you can name without looking. Write your own Mother Goose stories.

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February 26th Tell A Fairy Tale Day

February holidays

Cinderella, Snow White, The Prince and the Pauper are all Fairy Tales and they can be fun stories. They are generally thought of as children;s stories though they do not have to be. In fact, the Grimm brothers actually wrote their stories to try and scare children. So if that is the case, is not Frankenstein a Fairy Tale? Most Fairy Tales have a happy ending but that doesn’t mean it can’t be the monster’s happy ending!

How to celebrate – Tell someone a Fairy Tale today. Write your own Fairy Tale. Try to remember as many Fairy Tales as you can.

February 26th Tell A Fairy Tale Day

February holidays

Fairy Tales are generally saved for children but they needn’t be. We all like a story that ends with a happily ever after. There does seem to be a little difficulty determining what makes a Fairy Tale, a Legend, a Myth or just a Story. I’m not sure there is a scientific way to determine one over the other, although there probably is and not all Fairy Tales are intended to end happily. The Grim Brothers wrote their Fairy Tales because they hated children and wanted to scare them. So that sort of flies in the face of “Happily Ever After”. Then there are Stories like Camelot that meet the requirements of all the categories. It is a legend, as it contains some truth; myth because of magical creatures and people; a fairy tale because it has a Happy Ever After ending (well kind of), and of course, it is a story.

How to celebrate – Determine your best example of a Fairy Tale. Write a new Fairy Tale. Read a Fairy Tale.

February 26th National Tell A Fairy Tale Day

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February 26th National Tell A Fairy Tale Day

Fairy Tales have been a part of most of our lives, either told to us by our parents or on tv. They are stories meant to teach us valuable lessons. They teach us about heroes and villains and what makes each of them who they are. They are stories handed down over the ages and honestly, the meaning doesn’t vary all that much even though the times do. Some of the Fairy Tales even defeat themselves as in the Grimm Brothers Fairy Tales which were meant to scare children. Because the brothers did not like children!

How to celebrate – Tell your child a fairy tale. Create your own fairy tale. Make a list of all the Fairy Tales you can remember without looking them up.

February 26th National Tell A Fairy Tale Day

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National Tell a Fairy Tale Day – February 26th

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Fairy Tales are created from myths or legends. Most think they were created for children but they weren’t. In fact some are rather gruesome in their original form, cutting off toes to fit in shoes, chopping off the heads of frogs and many included gnomes, mermaids and giants.

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The Grimm Brothers, perhaps the most famous fairy tale authors hated children and wanted to scare them by their tales, “Household Tales”.

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How to celebrate – Join the Association of Fairy Tales. Check into Count Margarete von Waldeck, the Legend Snow White was created from. Host a Fairy Tale Murder Mystery party.