Forest Tree King Skye

As you step out the woodland procession approaches, and lifted highly upon firm branches, all knotted in a crazy splendid mess, sits the Forest Tree King, and all about is perfect. The sunshine of the day perches upon his shoulder and he looks lovingly down into the gathered crowd.

Ribbons and bunting are everywhere, gold, green, blue, white, yellow, fluttering like butterflies in the light summer breeze.

'Welcome my friends' he says to the gathering, his deep voice, warm and welcoming. 'Now who shall sit on my throne for the day? Who shall bring me the most perfect leaf, for that is what you must do for me and then I will grant the winner a seat upon my throne for the day.'

He then pauses for effect though the words are the same every year.
'But there is one simple rule, do you know it?' and all about the crowd chant 'Yes, yes we do.'
'Well then that is good, but lets help our new friends freshly joined' and he turns to you and says.

'The leaves must fall naturally to the ground, none must be picked from the trees themselves, and be careful where you collect them from, it must be clean and free from litter of any kind. Now are you ready?'

Are you? Then nod to the Forest Tree King.

All about the courtyard the frenzy is about to begin, there is a magic hush as the King lifts his arm in readiness. Everyone holds their breath waiting for the signal, then he opens his palm and out spill hundreds of rose petals, and off like a gun the crowd goes, to the left and right, people scurrying and snatching at the leaves on the ground, along the side and all about. When they have what they believe to be the best, then they head off across the grass at a mad pace.

Then the King of the Forest turns gently to you again and asks kindly. 'What are you waiting for, find one superb leaf each, make it different from each others, so no two should be alike if you can help it, then take them to the five judges in the field.'

'The winner will have the chance to sit upon my throne, it is always the prize going far back into history, further than books, and long beards, and perhaps even before shoes were invented, and that is a very long way back indeed!'

So your task is set, each take a moment to find a leaf, as perfect as can be and then when you are ready, come back to me and read on.

You all have a leaf?

As you approach the judge worm, he is wearing his tuxedo and riding his motorbike around and around. He eve his engine, drops the clutch and wheel spins towards the flaming fish tanks boiling with burning oil.

Oh no this is going to all end in distasteful, but Worm rides smoothly and takes the jump with ease. As he becomes air borne he does a little flip just to show off.

worm would like a ramp shaped leaf for more tricks.

Creepy croley sneaky... for sneaking in the deep long grass and lerking for it's prey.

Chapter two

It sleeps in a tree but all alone laying there eggs in a warm bed.


After all spiders are more afraid of us then we are of them.

As you approach a small,superb spruce tree near a bridge at first light ,you sense a blast of dinky,smooth snoring but also a slight weeping sound in the distance so you go over to a long plot of grass only to find a cold,shivering woodlouse with a magenta woolly jumper that appeared to be crying.In its sleep it mumbled:the winning leaf should be the thickest,fattest,most waterproof leaf of all.The reason why is because I need a comfy place to sleep and a leaf to absorb my sorrow darts of water coming from my eyes.The judge asks you to place your leafs on the ground in a straight line and then hold it up in the air and you can't see through it.However,there are two winners.If there are two winners judge if you can turn them into a curve to protect him from the rain and predators.

To say goodbye and thank you,you pick up woodlouse and wink at him and he winks at you with one glistening,tear stained eye which made you think to carry on...

As you approach the judge, marvellous(1999) is a famous skipper.Every one laid down their leaves for MILLIPEED to look at. Coiled like, a kite by a tree he chose the best one. To make him win, put a spell on the judge."he is the winer" she said."

As you approach the judge , the slowest and most craziest snail in the town . He is really slow indeed , he is really crazy . This is the snail who is really slow so hold your leaf in the air and the last one to the floor wins , and he loves colour so the most colour wins as well . He is so old he has bags under his eyes . Snail sleeps on a log for bedtime and wears a bedtime hat . His home is in a pit . He eats fresh leafs and grass he also eats roots which proves he is a herbivore because he eats plants .


You hold your leafs in the air

Snails are slow so he wants a slow leaf so he can float down slowly to the ground . He also likes colour so get him a colourful leaf to make him joyful .

To say goodbye and thank you , you say thank you and give him a rose and then he says thanks back to you and gives you a rose

As you approach the judge you see a beetle glazing down at you. He is so irritated by his itch it is worse than people constantly throwing apples at you. "Please lay your leaves down and the one that is the sharpest and the one with the most spikes will be the winner. I will use that leaf to itch my back." He really thanks you for your spiky leaf it helps him a lot he is super grate full trust me but it has to be sharp.

The King waits eagerly, he has judged many leaves already, but lots of faces are a little glum as nobody has won yet today, but then you place your leaves on the ground and the Kings wise eyes light right up.

'Tell me,' he says, 'Which did Spider choose?

And which did Miss Fly-by-night the moth?

And what about Squire Squirrel, he likes shiny, which did he choose?

And Captain Cricket, he always chooses for worm, which did he like the best.

He talks so fast that you find your head gets dizzy, but you point as quickly as he asks.

'All these leaves are so beautiful,' he says 'but every competition needs a winner and the throne can only hold one person, so . . . ' and he pauses thinking for a moment.

'Is there one leaf which has been chosen more than the others?'

Who's leaf has been chosen the most times?

But the King shakes his head, 'We can't leave it like this, I have an idea, you can take it in turns on my throne.'

And an enormous raw of applause erupts from the crowd, hats are thrown into the air and music begins to start.

Then the Forest Tree King lifts you up high onto the throne of branches and all cheer at the first winner.

Did you enjoy the adventure?

How would you make it better?

Should there have been another judge creature? Fly, Rook, Robin, Field Mouse, Pigeon?

If you were one of the judges what would be your criteria for the best one?

What would you change about the story?

Who's leaf should really have won?