The Flighty Fly

## **Plot:**

Rabbit invents a new toy called the Flighty Fly.

## **Transcript:**

**Mouse:** Have you ever really wanted to do something, but it seemed like you were just too small?

That's what happened to me today.

It all started with my friend Rabbit's new invention...

**Thunder:** What's it called again?

**Mouse:** The flighty fly.

Rabbit invented it.

**Thunder:** And it really flies?

**Rabbit:** Not by itself.

The wind blows it up in the air and keeps it there, and we steer it!

That's the fun part.

There it goes!

**Mouse:** Look at it go!

**Thunder:** Ooh, it's flying!

**Rabbit:** Want to try it?

**Mouse:** Oh, yes please!

**Thunder:** Yeah, yeah!

**Mouse:** You can go first.

**Thunder:** Thanks!

Woo-hoo! Yippee!

**Mouse:** That flighty fly looks like more fun than a puddle of polliwogs!

I can hardly wait for a turn!

**Thunder:** Ooh! Rabbit's right, the wind holds it up!

Try it, Mouse!

**Mouse:** Yippee!

Whoa!

How do you steer this thing?

**Rabbit:** You have to stay on the ground to steer!

**Mouse:** Help!

**Rabbit:** Don't worry!

We've got you!

**Mouse:** Oh, my whiskers!

Did you see that?

I was almost gone with the wind!

Looks like I'm too small and light to fly the flighty fly.

You'd better play without me.

**Thunder:** Without you?

That's no fun.

**Rabbit:** There must be a way for you to fly it!

We just have to figure it out.

**Mouse:** But I can't fly it if I can't steer it, and I can't steer it if I can't stay on the ground.

**Rabbit:** Then let's find a way to keep you on the ground.

Time for a hop-think!

The question is... how can we help Mouse stay on the ground so he can fly the flighty fly?

**Thunder:** I know!

The wind blew Mouse up in the air, so we should try and stop the wind from blowing.

**Mouse:** But we need the wind to fly the flighty fly.

**Rabbit:** And we need to find a way for Mouse to stick around on the ground long enough to fly the flighty fly.

**Thunder:** Stick around... stick...

Stick... stick...

Sticky...

I got it!

**Mouse:** Ooh! Honey!

My favorite!

Yum!

**Thunder:** Mouse!

The honey was for sticking you to the ground, not for eating!

**Mouse:** Oops!

Sorry.

Do it again.

I won't eat it this time, honest!

**Rabbit:** We can't.

We're out of honey.

But we're not out of ideas!

**Thunder:** Woo-hoo!

**Rabbit:** There! That'll keep you on the ground.

Try it now!

**Thunder:** Yeah!

**Mouse:** Oh! I'm doing it!

Whoa!

**Rabbit:** Oh, cabbage!

Mouse!

**Thunder:** Uh-oh!

**Mouse:** Aww!

I thought that would work.

But I'm just too light!

**Rabbit:** Don't give up!

All we need is something stronger and heavier than grass...

**Thunder:** Stronger and heavier...

Oh! I know!

**Mouse:** Whoa!

**Thunder:** My cuddle rock is strong and heavy!

And very cuddly.

**Rabbit:** Right!

There's no way you'll blow away now.

Here, try it again.

**Mouse:** Oh! I'm doing it!

I'm flying the flying fly!

Hey! The wind is changing...

**Rabbit:** Don't let the vine rub on that stump!

**Mouse:** What do I do?

Uh-oh!

**Rabbit:** It's getting away!

**Mouse:** Oh no!

I broke Rabbit's flighty fly!

**Pearl:** It's so breezy and blowy!

**Amber:** Perfect for chasing leaves.

**Coral:** I caught a leaf!

**Jade:** A leaf caught me!

Get it off!

**Coral:** Uh-oh!

**Pearl:** Oh my!

**Amber:** What is it?

**Pearl:** Well, obviously it's a um...

You tell her.

**Coral:** I don't know!

**Jade:** Don't look at me.

**Rabbit:** There it is!

**Mouse:** Is it OK?

Can you fix it?

**Rabbit:** Sure!

I'll just tie the vine back together and it's good as new.

**Pearl:** What's good as new?

What is it?

**Mouse:** It's Rabbit's new invention.

The flighty fly!

**Thunder:** The wind blows it up in the air, and you have to hold on to the vine to keep it from getting away.

**Jade:** Then what's it doing here?

**Rabbit:** It got away.

**Mouse:** We were trying to find a way for me to fly it, so Thunder tied me to a rock to help me stay on the ground.

But then the wind changed, and the flighty fly headed for a tree!

**Gibble Goose Girls:** Ooh!

**Mouse:** And I couldn't run to stop it, 'cause I was tied to a rock!

**Gibble Goose Girls:** Ooh!

**Mouse:** So the vine broke.

**Gibble Goose Girls:** Aww.

**Pearl:** Next time you should attach yourself to something that can move.

Like me!

**Mouse:** I think we'd still be too light.

**Coral:** What about all of us?

**Amber:** That would be heavier.

**Jade:** And we can move.

**Pearl:** See?

**Mouse:** All of you?

That just might work!

**Rabbit:** Let's try it!

OK, now when I say, radishes, everybody run!

Running helps the flighty fly catch the wind.

**Coral:** Radishes?

**Mouse:** OK, Rabbit!

**Rabbit:** Ready?

And... radishes!

**Mouse:** Oh! Oh!

We did it!

It's flying!

Uh-oh.

The wind is dying down!

Keep running!

**Mouse and the Gibble Goose Girls:** Ooph! Oops! Ow!

**Mouse:** No, this way!

**Gibble Goose Girls:** This way! That way! Which way?

**Mouse:** Whoa!

Here I go again!

Whoa!

**Pearl:** For something we can't even see, the wind sure is strong!

**Mouse:** Whoa!

**Rabbit:** I've got you!

**Mouse:** Whoa!

Aah!

Huh?

Oh my whiskers!

**Rabbit:** Mouse! Are you OK?

**Mouse:** Yes.

It was kind of fun!

**Rabbit:** Fun? Thumpeka, that's it!

Instead of flying the flighty fly, maybe you could fly on the flighty fly?

**Mouse:** Fly on it?!

Yeow!

**Rabbit:** There!

I've added a stick for you to hang onto.

Right here, see?

**Thunder:** Ooh! Neat!

**Pearl:** Wow. I can't believe you're going to ride on the flighty fly!

**Mouse:** I can't believe it either.

Oh dear.

**Rabbit:** Hang on tight!

**Mouse:** Whoa!

Whee!

**Thunder:** Yay!

**Rabbit:** Carrotastic!

**Mouse:** Whoopee!

Yippee! Yeehaw!

Whoa! This is fun!

You all look so small from up here.

Even smaller than me!

Hi!

Are you sure that worm is the right size for you?

Quiver my whiskers!

That's it!

Rabbit, quick!

Pull me down!

**Rabbit:** OK, Mouse!

Erf!

Whoa!

**Mouse:** I've got it!

I know how I can fly the flighty fly!

**Rabbit:** Well, stop my hops!

How?

**Mouse:** What if the flighty fly weren't so big?

What if it were small like me?

It's like those birds.

Big worms are better for big birds.

And little worms for little birds!

**Rabbit:** So Thunder and I can fly a big flighty fly because we're big, but you need a little one...

**Mouse:** Because I'm little!

Exactly!

**Rabbit:** No problem!

One mouse-sized flighty fly coming right up.

Thunder, you find some twigs...

**Thunder:** OK!

**Pearl:** And we'll get you some leaves!

**Mouse:** Aw, my friends are great!

They wanted to find a way for me to use the flighty fly and they wouldn't give up.

And now they're making a new one; just for me!

**Thunder:** Well, toot my horn!

**Rabbit:** Ta-da!

A mouse-sized flighty fly!

**Pearl:** Aw, it's so little.

**Coral:** And cute.

**Amber:** Just like, Mouse!

**Jade:** Amber.

**Mouse:** Wow. Thanks everyone!

**Rabbit:** Ready, Mouse?

**Mouse:** Ready!

I did it!

**Rabbit:** Alright, Mouse!

**Mouse:** So being small didn't stop me from flying the flighty fly after all.

I even got to do something Rabbit and my bigger friends couldn't do; ride on the flighty fly!

Rabbit thought that looked like loads of fun.

So guess what he's doing?

He's building one big enough for all of us to ride on!

I think we're going to need a few more leaves, and a lot more wind!