The Cracked Pot

Super Great Kids' Stories

Wardour Studios

Stories For Kids, Kids & Family, Education For Kids

4.4 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 26 May 2023

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

Every day a woman carries two pots of water from the river to her home. One is perfect, and one is cracked. The perfect pot mocks the cracked pot, but the cracked pot discovers that not being perfect, can have it's benefits too. An inspiring story, reminding us to enjoy being ourselves.

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0:00.0	Well, hello and welcome to super great kids' stories.
0:19.0	Wise tales from storytellers around the world, which will make you laugh and sometimes
0:25.3	cry.
0:27.1	I commended for ages 5, 2, 105.
0:32.0	I'm Kim and I love stories.
0:35.6	Hello super great kids and how are you?
0:39.2	I hope you're enjoying the sunshine.
0:42.0	Recently in the UK we've had a bit of wind, a bit of sunshine and a bit of rain.
0:48.3	Do you remember that rhyme I mentioned back in April?
0:51.5	March, wind and April showers bring forth May flowers.
0:56.6	Well, now it's May and we've got the flowers.
1:00.1	Hooray!
1:01.1	In the little garden bed in front of my story shed, there are hundreds of little flowers unfurling
1:06.7	and there are attracting lots of butterflies and buzzzy, wazzy bees.
1:12.0	In the story this week there are lots of flowers.
1:16.0	What do flowers need to make them grow?
1:18.4	Do you know?
1:19.4	Yes, they need water and soil and sunshine.
1:24.8	The wonderful storyteller Seftownsend has come today to tell us a story from China called
1:31.8	The Cracked Pot.
1:35.0	Before we begin the story, I wonder if you can think of the names of any flowers.
1:40.0	Now there's a challenge.
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