THE STICK MAN – Children Short Story with Moral Lesson

The second grade students at St. Maria’s were excited. It was the last hour of the
day and it was their painting hour. They loved the color pencils, crayons, water color
and Mr. Edward the painting teacher. But Jason Peter was more than delighted
about the magic pencil he had pulled out from little Steve’s bag. He had exchanged
the pencil with a look alike pencil. Steve had made the entire class envy all
throughout their semester.

The class drew pictures, colored, chatted and laughed during the hour. Mr. Edward
introduced the class with a new form of drawing- the stick form.

“Kids let us draw a stick man today” The young teacher drew a stick man on the
class board and the students copied the same on their sketch book.

The school bell rang loud and the children rushed back home.

“Dad looked at what I had drawn today.” Jason showed the sketch book to his father.

“Great Job Young Man” Peter complimented the little boy.

Little Jason went cycling, played ball with his pup Brownie and by seven in the
evening he was fast asleep.

The bright blue walls of the bedroom were decorated with pictures of characters from
Jason’s favourite cartoon series and each and every furniture in the room made it
more evident to be a kid’s bedroom.

The room remained dark except for the moonlight coming in through the curtains.
The sketchbook lay wide open on the study table . The pages flipped in the gentle
wind that blew from the open hall through the door.  The stick man jumped out of the
book.

“ What a beautiful stick man I am!” he exclaimed looking at himself. He loved his
reflection in the wardrobe mirror.

“ But  I need more stick friends…………” the stick man dreamt greedily.

The naughty stick man opened Jason’s bag and took out his magic pencil. He
created more pictures of stick people with it. One by one they all jumped out of the
book as to the magic of the pencil.