Stories That Shape Us: Why the Tortoise’s Shell Is Cracked
🎧 Episode Title: Why the Tortoise’s Shell Is Cracked
A Yoruba Folktale About Sharing, Fairness, and Friendship
🌟 Episode Summary
In this imaginative and interactive episode of Faithfully Explore!, we journey to Yorubaland to hear a traditional folktale about Ìjàpá the tortoise. When a sky-high feast is announced, Ìjàpá uses his clever words to trick the birds and ends up learning a hard lesson about greed and fairness.
Through call-and-response storytelling, movement, and rich cultural exploration, children ages 5–12 discover an important truth: when we take only what we need, there is enough…
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