"Backyard Water Park" from the At Home with Martin & Sylvia collection
Sparkle Stories Podcast
Lisabeth Sewell
4.4 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 23 July 2025
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
This week's featured story comes from the At Home with Martin & Sylvia collection.
It's called "Backyard Water Park."
It is hot, and Martin and Sylvia want to cool off. "Can we go to a water park?" asks Martin hopefully. "I don't think we have a water park around here," answers Momma. But Daddy recollects how he and his brother used to make their own water parks in their backyard. This inspires brother and sister to pull out all sorts of materials and structures to create a cool solution to the summer heat.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, everyone. Welcome. This is Elizabeth of Sparkle Stories. And this is the Sparkle Stories |
| 0:14.6 | podcast. I continue our feature of your favorite stories this year with another listener favorite. This is where I went |
| 0:24.6 | and looked to see what stories have been listened to a lot by subscribers over the years. And this is |
| 0:32.2 | at the top of the list. Backyard Waterpark. It's from the At Home with Martin and Sylvia |
| 0:37.2 | collection. And I thought it would be a perfect story for these hot summer days. So if it is hot where you are, if it is summer where you are, first of all, and it is hot. This is a great story. In the story, Martin and Sylvia really want to cool off and they ask their parents if they can go to a water |
| 0:55.1 | park. But that's not an option. And so guess what they do? Can you guess? They create their own |
| 1:03.1 | backyard water park. So if you need a little cooling off, this is the story for you. Before I share the story, I want to encourage you to subscribe. |
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| 1:29.4 | immediate access to all of our stories, over 1,500 delightful stories in the Sparkle Stories Library. |
| 1:37.5 | You can listen to them as much as you like anytime you like, SparklStories.com and click the |
| 1:43.6 | button that says start free trial. Okay, now onto the story, |
| 1:47.6 | backyard waterpark from the At Home with Martin and Sylvia Water Park |
| 2:14.6 | Martin and Sylvia live in a tall house with lots of windows. |
| 2:19.3 | From their second-story loft bedroom, they can see their entire backyard, |
| 2:25.3 | with the tall maple and oak trees on one side, and the horse fence that borders the Brown's farm on the other. |
| 2:42.3 | Along the back of their yard are several birch and willow trees that line a shallow brook. |
| 2:46.9 | Martin and Sylvia play along the brook all year long, |
| 2:54.3 | building fairy houses and moving the many round stones to try to change the water's flow. |
| 3:02.2 | In the spring, when the snow has melted and the first of the springtime showers has arrived, |
| 3:06.3 | the brook can swell into a fast-moving river. |
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