"Backyard Water Park" from the At Home with Martin & Sylvia collection
Sparkle Stories Podcast
Lisabeth Sewell
4.4 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 27 May 2026
⏱️ 19 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 | Hi, friends. Welcome to the Sparkle Stories podcast. This is Elizabeth of Sparkle Stories. And here we are coming |
| 0:15.2 | towards the end of May and Memorial Day weekend and the beginning of the summer months. |
| 0:23.4 | So I'm going to throw a summertime story in here. |
| 0:27.0 | It is one of the all-time favorites. |
| 0:29.2 | It's one of my favorites. |
| 0:30.7 | And you know, this year I'm trying to pick all the best stories that inspire creativity |
| 0:34.9 | and wonder and connection and play. So this story is going to inspire some |
| 0:41.4 | play. It is called backyard water park. It's a story I've shared before. It's a story we love to |
| 0:48.5 | feature because it's so delightful. It's from the At Home with Martin and Sylvia collection. |
| 0:53.2 | And it's a hot day in the story. It may not be hot where you are yet. Some parts of the world are very hot and some parts are not in May. But in this story, it's hot. And Martin and Sylvia want to go to a water park. But there's not a water park right around where they live. So what did they do? They do what Martin and Sylvia's family does best. They create their own. So get ready to be |
| 1:18.0 | inspired. You might want to create your own backyard park of sorts once you finish listening to |
| 1:24.3 | this story. Before I share the story, I want to encourage you to subscribe. It's super easy. You go to the |
| 1:32.6 | SparkleStories website, SparklStories.com, and click the button at the top right that says |
| 1:38.3 | start free trial. Everyone starts for free. And you get immediate access to our entire library of over 1,500 stories. |
| 1:46.3 | You can listen to as much as you like, as often as you like. |
| 1:49.9 | The whole library becomes yours to enjoy. |
| 1:52.9 | And all the stories are just as delightful as the one you're about to hear. |
| 1:58.0 | Okay, are you ready? |
| 1:59.7 | Here comes backyard water park from the At Home with Martin and Sylvia |
| 2:04.8 | collection. Enjoy. Backyard Water Park |
| 2:26.3 | Martin and Sylvia live in a tall house with lots of windows. |
| 2:32.3 | From their second-story loft bedroom, they can see their entire backyard, |
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