Welcome back to Make-Up, the kids' bedtime stories podcast.

My name is Steve. I make up new stories every night without preparing to put my 5-year-old son to bed.

You should listen to another story tomorrow.

But right now, we're ready for today's story.

So get ready. Get tucked in.

Make-up story time begin.

Tonight's Make-up story request comes from a listener named ellie who is a five-year-old girl and ellie wants us to make up a story that includes a magic road

a magic girl who we're going to call ellie and also a magic road, a magic girl who we're going to call Ellie, and also a magic bumblebee.

We're going to add a birdie and a big rainbow to the story.

So, once upon a time, a long time ago, there was a big girl whose name was Ellie.

And Ellie lived in a house with the rest of her family.

Ellie liked to do a lot of special things, including drawing.

And one of Ellie's favorite things to draw was a rainbow, because she had to use a lot of different

colors when she was drawing the rainbow.

And it came out so nicely, and whenever her mom saw the rainbow that she would draw, her mom

would say, Ellie, that is the nicest rainbow

that you drew on that piece of paper. And Ellie would tell her mama that one day she's going to make

the rainbow real. They just had to go on a magic road, and at the end of the magic road, there would be

a real rainbow. One day, Ellie's mama and Dada decided to take

Ellie out on adventure, and Ellie told her parents that there was a secret road that they didn't know about,

and that on that secret road there were some magic special things,

and her parents asked which way it was, and Ellie told her parents that it was kind of hard

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