Creative Baking
IllustrationStory★★★★A young boy asked his mother if she would bake a loaf of bread for him to share with his friends. When it was finally ready, he couldn’t wait to show it to his buddies. Out he ran with a big smile on his face. A bit later, she looked out of the window and saw her son standing with a catcher’s mitt in his hand behind home plate, her flattened loaf of homemade bread.
The point
A boy's creative use of homemade bread as a baseball glove shows childhood innovation and innocent practicality.
Audience
AdultsChildren
Tone
Humorous · Warm
To tell aloud
under a minute · 75 words
Subjects