"Part One: Grown-Up Costumes" from the Martin & Sylvia: Dress Up collection
Sparkle Stories Podcast
Lisabeth Sewell
4.4 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 15 October 2025
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
This week's featured story comes from the Martin & Sylvia: Dress Up collection.
It's called "Part One: Grown-Up Costumes."
One morning, Martin and Sylvia notice that Daddy is taking a particularly long time to get dressed. He's headed to a very big meeting, and he wants to look just right. When they see the ways colorful choices help inspire his attitude, they begin to wonder: what special clothing items might inspire their own outings?
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| 0:00.0 | Friends, welcome. It's the Sparkle Stories podcast, and I am Elizabeth of Sparkle Stories |
| 0:13.5 | here to bring you another fun story for October. So now that we're in the middle of |
| 0:19.0 | October, I really want to get us excited about Halloween, |
| 0:23.8 | because we love Halloween and Sparkle Stories. |
| 0:26.4 | We also love costumes. |
| 0:28.4 | You'll find costumes and dressing up throughout many of our stories, especially Martin and Sylvia, |
| 0:34.4 | but also lots of sort of Halloween celebrations and junkyard tales and other |
| 0:39.4 | places as well. So I'm starting this week with a story from the Martin and Sylvia dress up |
| 0:46.9 | collection, which is completely about dawning costumes and discovering not only how much |
| 0:54.0 | fun they can be, but what other |
| 0:56.8 | magical things they can create for you. So in this collection, it's not only Martin and |
| 1:01.7 | Sylvia dressing up, it's mama and daddy too. And they find that it's helping them all |
| 1:07.7 | meet the day's challenges with confidence and delight. |
| 1:12.1 | So I'm going to play the very first story of this three story collection to get you excited |
| 1:18.2 | about costumes and dressing up this October. |
| 1:23.7 | Before I play the story, I want to encourage anyone who's not yet a subscriber to join us and subscribe. |
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| 1:42.5 | And we make it really easy. |
| 1:44.0 | All you have to do is go to the Sparkle Stories website, SparklStories.com and click the |
| 1:49.7 | button at the top that says start free trial. |
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