Rebecca’s Rainbow Ride

There was once a little girl called Rebecca who just loved to paint and draw rainbows.

She would put them on everything; on her school bag and on her clothes; on her school books and jotters, which always made her teachers very cross; all over her bedroom walls and she even used face paints to paint her face all the colours of the rainbow.

And, one day, Rebecca decided that she would make a great big rainbow, right across the front of her lawn, using crepe paper of all different colours.

It was a lovely rainbow, everyone in her family agreed and even birds flapping overhead would stop to look at it and twitter amongst themselves how nice it looked.

But then, that same day, a warlock dressed in a bright rainbow coloured hat and flowing rainbow robes, just happened to be flying overhead and got so distracted, looking down at Rebecca’s rainbow, that he crashed into a tree in Rebecca’s garden and broke his broom in two.

“Oh dear, oh dear”, said the Warlock, climbing down from the tree with the two pieces of broken broom in his hands, “I’ll have to fix my broom or else I’ll never get home”.

And, knocking on the door of Rebecca’s house, he asked Rebecca if she had any sticky tape that he could borrow to tape his broom back together.

Running up to her bedroom and going into a little box where she kept lots of stuff for making things, Rebecca soon returned with a roll of rainbow coloured sticky tape.

Then, waving his warlocks wand, the warlock made the roll of sticky tape roll across the ground and leap up into the air, sticking out a length of tape like a long tongue which it then latched onto the broken broom in the warlocks hands with, swinging round and round the broom until it had taped the two broken pieces together.

“Oh thank you”, said the Warlock, smiling and handing back the tape to Rebecca.

But then the Warlock noticed that Rebecca had a big rainbow across the front of her pink T-shirt and rainbows on her shorts; a rainbow bangle round her wrist and rainbow clasps in her hair.

“My”, he said, astonished, “You must really like Rainbows, little girl”.

Rebecca told the Warlock that she liked Rainbows more than anything.

And, hearing this, the Warlock smiled and said, “Well then, you are in luck because I happen to
make Rainbows”.

“Make them?”, asked Rebecca, quite amazed, “How do you make Rainbows?”.

“Oh, it’s very easy”, the warlock replied, “With a little bit of magic”.

And then, waving his magic wand again, the Warlock conjured up a golden cauldron filled with magic, rainbow coloured paint into which he dipped the bristly end of his broom just like a paintbrush.
Then, getting onto his broom, he said to Rebecca, “Why don’t you climb onto my broom and we’ll paint Rainbows together?”.

Rebecca leapt at the chance and, with the Warlocks help, climbed up onto his broom and then, quick as a flash, the broom took off, soaring up high into the blue summer sky and, where the paint covered bristles of the broom touched the sky, they left behind a bright beautiful rainbow.

To Rebecca, it was like a dream come true and the warlock even reached into his rainbow coloured robes and pulled out a rainbow coloured lollipop for her on which each colour was a different flavour and which made her tongue turn all the different colours of the rainbow too.

And from that day on, Rebecca and the Warlock became the best of friends and Rebecca often rode on his magic broomstick, painting real rainbows in the sky.