The Birthday Tree by Sara Connor

Maked Up Stories: Imaginative Kids Stories

Maked Up Stories

Kids & Family, Stories For Kids

4 • 766 Ratings

🗓️ 10 March 2025

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

Have questions for Sara about trees, forestry or her career? Send an email or a voice memo to [email protected].

Today we have a guest story by Sara Connor. Sara was a Flight Instructor and High School Science teacher. She taught kids about forests, water, soil, and conservation. Sara worked for a family lumber company and a forestry museum. Sara is an author and active in her community. Sara wrote this story to teach kids about trees and forestry.

Maked Up Stories is a daily children’s bedtime stories podcast. Perfect for your bedtime routine, your commute, or for some high quality screen-free entertainment at home. Our interactive format will ignite your imagination. Rich vocabulary with plenty of context clues supports your child’s language development.

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To submit an intro, outro or story request visit www.makedupstories.com.

For questions, feedback or to submit your child’s answer to a question we ask in the show email us at [email protected].

Check out our sister podcast Maked Up Clubhouse, where all the storytellers are kids! https://open.spotify.com/show/1DJIjGsPGXvUi4Qmcima0K?si=8cb76c3e21b248d0

Love our intro and outro music? We do do! The song is Hishtadlus by Batya Levine and you can find more of her work on Spotify.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Makeup Stories. My name is Noleng-Upories.com to join the Makeup Club.
0:22.6	Hello and welcome to MakeDup.
0:25.6	I'm your host, Amanda.
0:27.6	Boy, do I have a special treat for you today?
0:29.6	We'll be reading a story called The Birthday Tree by Sarah Connor.
0:33.6	Sarah's a friend of mine who has had lots of interesting jobs. She was a flight
0:39.5	instructor and a high school science teacher. She taught kids about forests, water, soil, and
0:46.3	conservation. Sarah has also worked for a family lumber company and in a forestry museum. Sarah is an author and is active in the greater community.
0:57.0	Sarah has offered that she would be happy to answer any questions we might have, either about the story or about trees, forestry, or her career.
1:08.0	If you have a question for Sarah, you can send it either as an email or a voice
1:12.8	memo to Makeup Stories at gmail.com. We will share your questions on a future episode, along
1:19.8	with an answer from Sarah. Sarah's story is called The Birthday Tree.
1:32.2	The snow was falling as Hank looked out the window.
1:35.6	He was watching the big flakes fall to the ground.
1:40.8	He was hoping that the snow would be soft and perfect for making a snowman.
1:47.0	Hank needed to make three sizes of snowballs for his snowman, one for the head, one medium-sized snowball, and a big one for the body. He would roll the snowballs around the
1:53.3	yard to make a big snowman. To get ready to go outside, Hank put on his boots, his snow pants,
2:00.7	jacket, and mittens. Hank rushed out the door,
2:05.1	and the big flakes landed on his mittens. He reached down and packed the snow together. Perfect.
2:12.6	Hank started rolling the snowball to make the body of the snowman. He would make a snowman for his birthday.
2:19.6	Suddenly the snowball caught on something. It was the top of a small white pine tree. Hank did not
2:26.7	remember a small pine tree from last summer or fall being in his yard. He started to scoop the
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