REWIND WEDNESDAY: Joshua goes Pumpkin Picking 🎃🎃🎃
Short Stories for Kids: Bedtime ~ Car Time ~ Downtime
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🗓️ 25 March 2026
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| 0:00.0 | Today's story is going to be read by The Wonderful Sky. |
| 0:06.1 | Joshua and the Scarecrow |
| 0:07.9 | On a cold October day, Joshua's father said, |
| 0:13.5 | Would you like to go pumpkin picking? |
| 0:16.2 | Joshua had never been pumpkin picking before, |
| 0:19.2 | and his father explained how much fun it could be. |
| 0:22.7 | First, we walk around the huge farmer's field and find the biggest and best pumpkin for making |
| 0:29.5 | a jack-a-lantern for the porch, and they have rides and games and food there. |
| 0:35.4 | Joshua was sold on the idea. |
| 0:40.1 | He couldn't believe how enthusiastic his father was about going pumpkin picking, which made Joshua enthusiastic too. When the day came, |
| 0:47.3 | Joshua and his father drove to the pumpkin picking patch. Joshua felt an electric energy |
| 0:53.2 | rushing through his body. How big did the pumpkins get? |
| 0:57.5 | What were the other things to do there? Could they stay at the pumpkin patch all day? |
| 1:03.0 | The vibrant leaves of the trees had withered and fallen, rustling ominously in the cold breeze. |
| 1:09.9 | The sky was a dark, brooding gray, with storm clouds |
| 1:13.9 | looming overhead like spirits. Joshua was wrapped in his warm, cozy winter clothes to stop the |
| 1:21.8 | cold bite of October from getting to him. When they pulled into the pumpkin-picking patch, |
| 1:29.7 | Joshua never felt a breath of the cold. All his excitement exploded at once. The pumpkin-picking patch was a huge farmer's field |
| 1:37.6 | that seemed to go on forever. Children the same age as Joshua ran about in the rows and rows of big orange pumpkins. |
| 1:47.2 | There was a little stall for coffee and sodas, a stall for pies and sandwiches, and lots of games. |
| 1:54.2 | There was a ring toss, ski ball, and lots more. |
| 1:58.1 | Let's go, Dad said, locking the door and running for the entrance. |
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