Crumbelina and the Hungry Ants

🌬️Mitch
4 min readMar 18, 2021

She really shouldn’t make so many crumbs…

Image by Eleatell from Pixabay

Crumbelina was a very pretty little girl with long curly hair and bright smiley cheeks. She lived in a big house near a dark forest with tall bumpy trees and long grass where wild purple flowers grew.

Every day she would go outside to walk around in the wet grass and play as she waited for the birds to come into her garden to sing their morning songs. She especially loved the red cardinals that darted into her yard to peck at the fat worms that came out of the wet ground.

But there was one thing that Crumbelina loved most of all. She loved to eat cookies. Not just any cookies. She didn’t care about the cream filled cookies or the animal crackers. Oh no, the cookie she loved most of all were the chocolate chip cookies. She would sit at her kitchen table and munch her cookies as fast as she could.

Do you know what happens when you eat cookies as fast as you can?

Crumbelina made so many cookie crumbs her mommy always said to her: “Lina, you have to take your time to eat your cookies and try not to make crumbs, you’ll bring the ants.”

But did Crumbelina listen? Nope. She didn’t listen to her mother and one day after she ate four cookies as fast as she could, can you guess what happened?

She made a huge mess with cookie crumbs all over the carpet in the living room. She left the mess she made on the floor and went outside to play.

The busy ants that lived in the forest smelled the cookie crumbs on the floor and they came to get a closer look.

What do you think the ants came to see?

First they climbed up to the window to see if they could see what they smelled.

But they couldn’t see the crumbs because the window was not near the living room.

But still they could smell the cookie crumbs so they decided to sniff around some more.

The next thing they did, they snuck under the front door. They tiptoed very very quietly into the house and sniffed around for the cookie…

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🌬️Mitch

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