Stardust Project: Children’s Gallery
Voices for Life inspires children to express themselves through storytelling and art work. The Stardust story uses an outer-space theme, and explicitly helps children to explore their different feelings through song.
Planet Zarg Designs
This is the children’s happy and helpful planet. It can be anything they want it to be.
Children’s Stories inspired by Stardust
Lilly and the space alien by Maddie (Year 3)
Lilly had always been imaginative. One sunny morning, she was walking down L lane when she saw something uncommon. In a construction site, there was a door covered in stars and planets. The handle was shaped like an alien’s eye. Carefully, she turned it and the door, it moved forward and sucked Lilly in!
Around her there was a giant, great planet. She thought there would be aliens but there was not any. Suddenly, an alien appeared the alien said “Welcome to planet Zarg here any thing you want you can have.” “Do you want some food? We have sticky, gross eyeballs, chewy, thick fingers and bumpy, yummy hearts.” Hundreds of small aliens were serving crying babies, green leaves and huge cups of red blood. They had blue shoes and galaxy skin.
In the middle of the asteroid, there was a blue eye made out of rock and in its pupil, she could see a folded piece of paper. It said ‘do not eat a dish this height, or you will get yourself in to a big fight.
So, Lilly wandered further around the planet, she walked past a great river and at the end she found a gold fridge. Excited, she opened the door and inside was a chocolate eyeball sitting on a pink and blue plate. It looked alienly and yummy. She took a bite and it tasted like space. At that very moment, Lilly gasped because she had remembered what she had been told.
As quick as a flash, she could hear 5 thousand people singing Lake of Tears. Lilly shuddered and ran from the people singing. Clutching the eyeball, she dashed around the planet, past the asteroid with the tiny aliens hovering behind her. Just in time, she found the space door that led her back to her own world.
Amazingly, two very sad things happened after Lilly had reached home. First, Lilly put the eyeball outside but it didn’t grow. Her mum said “That’s a shame it didn’t grow.” Secondly, poor Lilly never found the world again, even though she walked up and down L lane many times. At school, they said that Lilly was always lost in her daydreams. She dreamed of giant planets, alien feasts and gold fridges. Sadly, that other world had disappeared and Lilly never found her way back again. Well, at least, Lilly never found her way back…
Stardust was commissioned by Voices for Life in 2021 and is written by Jools Scott and Sue Curtis with concept and workshop design by Tessa Armstrong.
