Welcome to Make-Up, the Kids' Bedtime Stories podcast.

Today's story is going to be kind of short, but I hope that you enjoy and we'll have a regular story tomorrow.

Tonight's Make-Up story is your request from a three-and-a-half-year-old listener named Evelyn,

and Evelyn asked us to make up a story that includes a rainbow,

a unicorn, and a big girl. And we're also going to add a houseboat and a leprechaun to the story.

Once upon a time, a long time ago, there lived a girl whose name was Evelyn.

And Evelyn lived in a special color city.

In the color city that Evelyn lived in, everyone got to paint their own houses, and the way people painted their houses was they splashed paint on the walls of the house,

and then they used their hands to mush and mash and mush all of the paint.

And they got to rub the paint with their hands over their walls and to make it in special designs.

And some people like to do it with red paint over the walls, and then they put their hands

in the red paint and mushed it.

And some people like to do it with green paint.

But Evelyn's house was different.

Evelyn lived in a rainbow house. And Evelyn's rainbow house had so many different colors of paint.

When Evelyn painted it with her hands,

her mama told her that she had to wash her hands off with soap after she was done.

And Evelyn's house had a little river encircling the house.

There's a little river right around the house and the river was full of green paint.

And there was a troll bridge to get over the river and to the front door of Evelyn's house. So anyone who wanted to go to

Evelyn's house had to walk over the troll bridge and get past the green paint river that

made a circle around her house. And after you got into Evelyn's house, you would see that there

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