The Boy Who Loved Shiny Things

 There is a boy that I know who loves to ask me for sparkly things for his projects. I tell him that the sparkly things are there for when you have an idea to make some thing that shines, like a light or a star, and then he explains that he wants to make everything shine. He especially wants to glue some marbles to a paper, but the marbles are for playing with on the light table, and not for gluing. He never fails to ask me if he can have a few of those marbles, whether he is making a model car or a picture for his Mom.

This time when he got a piece of cardboard and asked if he could have some marbles to glue on it, and I said, "those are for playing with on the light table, not gluing. Why do you ask me for those every day?" He said, "because I love shiny things. I just love them so much I want to glue them on paper and take them home."

Now, that was an idea! I asked if he could make that into a story, and he did.

THE BOY WHO LOVED SHINY THINGS

There once was a boy who loved shiny things.

Why did he love shiny things?

He loved to touch them. 

He loved to look at  them.

They made him happy because they were so pretty.