Stories have to be told or they die, and when they die,
we can't remember who we are or why we're here.
- Sue Monk Kidd
Everyday of our lives is filled with
infinite stories. Under the fast pace of our lifestyle, we keep running
behind big things forgetting the little things that make us happy.
Gone are the times of storytelling
where kids yearn for their bedtime stories everyday.
Smartphones and apps play the role of
making the kids sit under a roof glued to the phone.
Colgate-Palmolive (India) Ltd's new
concept of launching the "Magical space adventure" is a beautiful initiative, which promises
to revive the hidden art of storytelling among the kids who are shut off
from the magical world of growing up!
When Blogadda and Colgate had teamed up
for the Share your #ColgateMagicalStories, it opened up a pool of opportunities
for the bloggers to reconnect with their childhood, interact with the kids,
imagine and create beautiful stories together, give them the opportunity of
endlessly imagining characters and stories from their creative minds.
Thanking them for a great initiative, when
I received the three packs having the Magical space theme, I reached out to my
neighbouring kids who were busy playing cricket.
When I narrated them with expressive
gestures what they have to do, the two boys (Vineeth the elderly and Kiran the younger one)
were both excited and shy. When I handed over them the package,their shyness
flew away and they started to get excited completely , whispering among them and
discussing about the space movies and cartoon episodes they had watched!
We sat in our backyard among the shady
trees and lush green plants with the sun shining at us!
They rushed to their home and brought down
all crafty glues,pens and cotton while I cut off a black circular base for them
to start with!
With lots of giggles and excitement they
started to cut off each character and talk about space aliens, Mars, the solar
system and galaxies and also by reading aloud the narrated terms on the pack.
After halfenever, they came with a big
story extracted from their creative subconscious memories of
movies,cartoons,school chapters and activities!
They arranged the characters onto the base
with earth on one side and galaxy/space on the other side and demarcated
creatively with cotton clouds, plastic plants.
The title and the plot of the story was
agreed without any clash as MISSION TO MARS,as their dream was to go to mars
when their teacher read about the CALL FOR APPLICANTS TO MISSION TO MARS from
the newspaper during the library period!
Thus the "THE MAGICAL MISSION TO
MARS" was ready to be shared and enacted!!!
THE MAGICAL MISSION TO MARS
Kiran was so exhausted after the long day
in school writing assignments and working out math!(He hates math by the way!)
He returns home with the most irritable mood and jumps onto his bed and dozes
off.
When he woke up, he saw Roshni signalling
him to come to Michael uncle's lab.
They both sneak into Robert uncle's space
lab, their second home.
Robert Uncle had applied for the One way
trip to mission to the red planet which made Kiran and Roshni very restless for
quite a few weeks!
They somehow wanted to make their visit to
the red planet to know if the planet is actually RED!
Uncle Robert has been answering all the
questions arrowed by the kids, Is it really RED? They had been witnessing him
prepare for the mission and educate the kids on the mission for many years, as
a result their overenthusiastic hearts have wanted to go for the mission to
mars.
While they sneaked inside the lab, their
joy knew no bounds as Uncle was busy packing his bags for the mission as he was
selected one among the many few who are to go on a ONE WAY trip to MARS!!!
They were very disappointed as kids are
not permitted to apply to the mission and they could no longer see their
favourite Uncle and his lab.
They decided to play a trick by trying out
Uncle's Magic TINYTOT potion and become small and hide inside Uncle's bag.
The crew of the mission to Mars were
gearing up for the big day and they
happily waved to their beautiful planet
and got into the spacecraft.
After several months, the crew with Uncle
Robert landed on Mars.
With immense happiness and overwhelming
curiosity they got out of their spacecraft and started their explorations and
research on Mars.
While this was happening, Uncle Robert had
left his bag on the spacecraft and moved away with the crew to the other side
of Mars for exploration.
Kiran and Roshni woke up from their very
deep sleep and found themselves shocked to have reached Mars.
The naughty kids who played a trick by
drinking up the potion and turning into a size of an ant had hid inside Uncle
Robert's bag and had become asleep for months due to the effect of the potion.
Kiran, look we had landed onto Mars!
exclaimed Roshni.
YES!! Is this true? Asked a shocked Kiran
who could not believe their achievement onto reaching Mars.
Roshni pulled up a potion from her
trousers which said DRINK ME!
They both instantly drank it and found
themselves returning to their normal height with their spacesuits on!
They both shouted in excitement "YES
ITS REALLY A RED PLANET"!!!
They enjoyed their first space walking
experience connected to the space station.
They could find no trace of the Mars crew
and Uncle Robert, meanwhile Kiran
pointed at the space jet at a far off distance.
Kiran jumped off in his space suit crying
out in joy reaching the space jet and asked Roshni to stay on their space
station as he wanted to ride the space jet and feel like the awesome astronaut!
Roshni agreed as she was exhausted from
the travel and assured to give him a signal when she is in need.
The high speed jet flew across the space
in a second and vanished out of Roshni's eyes.
Kiran could no longer hold his excitement
when he watched the whole solar system unfolding before his eyes.
He recorded all the footage as he passed
through Saturn, Venus... Whoa look at the
magnificent rings!! he exclaimed in joy.
Awww what's this sudden heat, am I in a
burning oven, he said in despair as he looked beyond and found the powerful
highest source of heat, THE SUN. Struggling to no longer go beyond, he jerked in
a shock when the emergency signal came from Roshni.
Kiran was so nervous and filled with
extreme anxiety when he saw Roshni aiming her gun at a tall slimy green creature.
He landed on the surface of Mars and rushed off in a Trover to reach
them. OMG ,it's an Alien cried out Kiran
when he neared Roshni.
Roshni jumped into the trover and narrated
the sighting of the alien with unexplainable fear.
Meanwhile the
alien was nearing them , when all of a sudden a fiery comet approached in the direction
of the alien. Kiran and Roshni averted the fiery comet with their machine guns
and saved the alien.
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| Vineeth and Kiran explaining in turns!!! |
The alien was near
their trover when they relaxed after the sudden events that took place. It
bowed before them and spoke in a language they could not understand. Kiran took
the translator machine invented by Robert uncle and translated it to Roshni.
It was thanking them for saving it and
explained it was sent by its alien troop to research on Mars, while it spotted
Roshni and mistook her as a dangerous element. Kiran and Roshni exchanged
information about the Mars with the alien.
They inquired about Uncle Robert to the
alien and it responded that it saw them few days ago researching on the surface
of Mars.
While they were chatting with the alien,
Roshni and Kiran realized it was time to go back to earth and show the footage
to their parents and teachers as they had already missed their parents. That's
when they realized, it was a mission of one way trip to mars and there was no
going back. Haunted by those feelings , Kiran and Roshni asked the alien to
help them reach their planet Earth and it happily accepted it. It took them to
a magical spaceship and asked them to board it happily and marked the destination
as Earth.
It also gave Kiran and Roshni a secret
electronic chip that could be used to contact the alien .
Thus Kiran and
Roshni bid a farewell to the alien and marched the Indian flag onto the surface
of Mars to commemorate their magical mission to mars and thanked Uncle Robert
heartily.
The next day Kiran
and Roshni was the spotlight all over the world ,with interviews and news
channel mobbing them.NASA approached them to work with them and awarded the
honorary award to them! Joy knew no bounds for Kiran and Roshni but the math
class never stopped annoying Kiran!!!
I’m blogging my #ColgateMagicalstories at BlogAdda in association with Colgate.
