In some woods there stood a big old
pine tree looking proud and tall. But the pine tree was sad. It was nearly
Christmas time and the tree had been watching men cut down other pine trees for
christmas trees. The pine tree wished he could become a christmas tree, but it
had heard other men say that the tree wasn’t right enough for a christmas tree.
This made the pine tree feel it would never become a christmas tree.
One day the pine tree began to moan
with grief. A robin heard its moaning and flew onto one of the tree’s branches.
“Why do you sound so sad Mr Pine tree?” the robin asked. The pine tree
explained to the robin of its wish to become a christmas tree. “All the other
pine trees get picked but I never do”. “Oh but those trees never come back to
the woods again, and I’ve seen them get turned into fire wood in the end” said
the robin. “Yes but still it would be nice to be decorated and look beautiful,
instead of looking plain and ugly” sighed the pine tree. The robin felt sorry
for the pine tree and wished there was something he could do to help. But then
an idea came to the robin and it flew off.
The robin flew around the woods
looking for the animals of the woods; rabbits, squirrels, mice, badgers, foxes,
deers and other birds that lived in the woods. Once the robin found the animals,
he told them about the pine tree and its desire to be decorated as a christmas
tree. “I was wondering maybe we can decorate the tree to cheer it up” said the
robin. “What would we use to decorate the tree though?” asked a squirrel “we
don’t have any of the things humans use to decorate trees with”. “No but we do
have things like pine cones, acorns, and berries here in the woods that we can
use” said the robin. “We can also use bits of ivy too,” spoke a mouse “there’s
lots of that stuff around here”. “I call this a good idea,” an owl said “that
tree has been miserable for quite a while and it does need cheering up. So let’s
decorate it to make it happy”. All the animals agreed to the robin’s idea to
decorate the tree and soon all the animals and birds started to gather things
for the tree. The foxes and badgers gathered up pinecones, the rabbits and mice
gathered up ivy vines, the squirrels gathered up some of their acorns and other
nuts they stored for winter, the birds gathered berries from trees and bushes
and the deers gathered cattail plants from some ponds. Soon the animals had
lots and lots of things to decorate the tree with. The robin even found a big
sycamore tree leaf which he thought would make a good decoration. “Okay
everyone let’s go and decorate the tree” said the robin.
All the animals carried the ivy
vines, pinecones, acorns, nuts, berries and cattail plants to the pine tree. “Hello
Mr Pine tree,” said the robin “we have come to make your wish of being
decorated come true”. The tree noticed all the pinecones, berries, etc on the
ground and felt happy at once. The mice, squirrels and birds started to place
everything on the tree as the badgers, rabbits, foxes and deers couldn’t climb
the tree. It took some time but soon the tree was decorated with acorns, nuts,
ivy vines, pine cones, berries and cattail plants. The robin placed the
sycamore tree leaf on the top of the tree. “How’s that Mr Pine tree?” asked the
robin. “This is lovely,” answered the pine tree “I thank all of you for doing
this for me”. “We’re sorry that it’s nothing like how humans decorate their
trees” said the robin. “Oh it’s alright,” said the pine tree “I’m happy with
these decorations. I couldn’t ask for anything else”. The animals were happy
they cheered the pine tree up. By now it was getting dark so all the animals
and birds went back to their homes for bed.
The next day all the animals and
birds went to check on the pine tree. When they got to the pine tree they had
the surprise of their lives. The pine tree had frost over it so now it looked
very sparkly and glittery; the decorations had frost over them as well so they
all looked glittery and sparkly too. “Woe Mr Pine tree,” said the robin “it
seems last night’s frost decided to decorate you as well”. “You are right
little robin,” said the pine tree “I now feel more splendid than ever”.
The pine tree felt happier than ever
because it finally got its wish of being a christmas tree, and the robin and
other birds and animals were happy too because of how happy they made the pine
tree.
