Behold the wonder and majesty of the Barrel of Monkeys Story Archive! Here you can read over 10 years worth of stories written by children that Barrel of Monkeys have performed for the public. It's been a magical journey.
Stories that appeared in the 2004-2005 season of "That's Weird, Grandma."
By Edith S., Cleveland
True Stories Holidays Winter Holidays That's Weird, Grandma
When it was the day before Christmas I was in my playroom my cousin came to the basement, that where I live. He lives in the first floor. So he came to my house he had a pair of scissors and chop my hair off. I was crying my mom came to see why was I crying my cousin left so 3 years later we were fighting. But we played too.
TweetBy Raven B., Choir Academy
True Stories That's Weird, Grandma
My biggest school memory was in kindergarten. When I first came in I was shy. When I meet people, I’m shy. On the second week of school I got used to them and most of the people/kids in both kindergarten classes were my friends. One day, I got into an argument with a girl named Marquita. She’s short, long curly hair and can sing. It happened at recess. Everybody was watching us, I said, “If you’re gonna hit me, just hit me.” “I’m not gonna hit you unless you hit me.” When recess was over we both told our teachers. But we were in separate classes. She was in Ms. P’s class and I was in Ms. Jenson’s class. We both had to go to the office. And then they had to ask us questions like, “What are you differences?” Well, I thought these questions were boring. But the best thing about kindergarten was we weren’t in the same classroom and I took a different language then her. Then we started to get along and we did not have any more arguments that year. This happened at Andrew Jackson Language Academy.
TweetBy Alaina R., 5th Grade, Choir Academy
That's Weird, Grandma
In the 1700’s there was a beard world and every boy and man had a long bushy beard and one day a boy told his mother that he did not want a beard so he went in his room and cut it all off until he had a close cut when he went to bed and woke up in the morning to get breakfast and when he got down from his room and went in the kitchen he was standing right behind his mother when his mother turn around she screamed and dropped all the plates she had in her hand at that moment she took him in the bathroom and told him look in the mirror he said mom well it turned out good she told him go get dressed we are going out to eat when they walked out of the house it was loud but when the boy walked out every one was quiet even the birds were quiet everyone made fun of him. Until the artist of hair do’s came that’s when he looked at the boy and said it is a miracle and then when he called it the newest hair style everyone started wearing it and that’s why some men cut their beards.
TweetBy Marche P., Pritzker School
That's Weird, Grandma
Once there was a little girl named Hannah. She was very pretty. Everyone liked her. She was very popular. One day her mom told her not to kiss any boys. Hannah thought that was stupid! On Hannah’s 14th birthday she kissed a boy named Marcus. After that she opened her eyes and she was on the curb. She looked in a mirror and this is how she looked… (funny picture of the 14 year old hobo)
TweetBy Tatiana H., Washington School
Superheroes That's Weird, Grandma
Super cut man cut people lawn he cut it so low that you saw the Dirt he cut every body lawn then it was no more lawn to cut because every body saw their dirt nobody had no grass or flowers. The end.