THE TEDDY SCARE

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Once there was a little girl called Aimee, who had a scruffy old bear whom she loved very much. His name was Patch and he had been with her forever, and though his stitching was loose, and his fluff kept on falling out, it did not stop the two of them having lots of magical fun together around Aimee’s home. They were the best of friends


To Aimee and Patch the house was a place of wonder and mystery, a place where strange and exciting things occurred, where a new adventure was always just waiting to happen.



To an adult a pile of clothes in the corner of a bedroom is just a bunch of smelly clothes waiting to be put in the wash but to Aimee and Patch it was a mountain waiting to be climbed and conquered.


And a cardboard box wasn't just something the new television came in, to Aimee and Patch is was an interstellar spaceship, which took them both on incredible journeys through our Solar System, to visit all of the planets, and to visit some of the people who live there.


Best of all, the garden was not just some over grown grass at the back of the house, it was a magnificent jungle waiting to be explored, full of strange creatures that only Aimee and her tatty old bear knew about.


(Note: In the last picture you see Patch getting muddy and his stitching falling out, which leaves a trail of his fluff behind him)


However there was one place that Aimee and Patch never dared ventured. Under the stairs was a mysterious black, gloomy door and whenever the pair felt brave enough to try and open that door, a huge roar from within would frighten them away. Aimee often wondered what horrible thing lived under the stairs.


One afternoon, when Aimee had eaten her lunch, she raced back up to her bedroom to get Patch so that he could join her on another new adventure, but to her shock and horror he wasn’t on the bed where she had left him, in fact he was nowhere to be found at all!


Had Patch gone exploring without her? Where could he be?


Aimee looked all over her bedroom for Patch but she could not find him anywhere. Finally Aimee noticed a piece of white fluff besides her bed, just near where Patch had last been. Then Aimee spotted another piece, and another. There was a trail on the floor, and she followed the pieces of fluff out of her room...


OH NO! The trail led to the scary black door under the stairs, and inside Aimee could hear a terrible grumble!


Its the monster under the stairs , Aimee thought and he's have taken poor Patch!


Aimee felt very scared when the monster roared again and she almost ran away to hide under her duvet, but then she remembered poor ol'Patch. Would he leave me if I was in trouble? , Aimee thought no he would not! (The sections where Aimee thinks to herself could perhaps been in speech bubbles within the illustrations)


Aimee suddenly had the most brilliant plan.


Aimee snuck into her parent’s room and found her Daddy’s pile of horrible work socks. They were the most terrible, smelliest, old socks in the whole wide world. Holding her breath she grabbed as many of the stinkers as she could carry and she raced back to her room where she made a surprise for the nasty, teddy stealing monster.



If a monster is going to be pinching my teddy , Aimee thought to herself, let’s see how he likes this! At the end of her bed she made the whiffiest, smelliest, pongiest teddy there have ever been.


(Illustration will show how Aimee puts the socks together, reluctantly as the smell is so bad)


Aimee had turned her Daddy’s dreadful socks into a teddy bear.


That night Aimee waited in her bed for the monster to come and steal her trick teddy and when he did, the terrible smell would make him faint and then she could go and rescue poor Patch from the dreaded monsters lair under the stairs.


Aimee waited, and waited, and waited until, her little eyes could stay open no longer and she fell into a deep sleep.


There was a noise and Aimee very quickly woke up, the stinky sock teddy was gone, but its smell was not. Her bedroom door was wide open and from down stairs she could hear very loud grumbles from beneath the stairs.


Aimee leapt from her bed and raced down the stairs and quickly found herself outside the monsters lair. The door was slightly opened and after taking a deep breath Aimee took a peak inside.


It was very dark inside and hard to see but she could just make out the shadow of the monster. He was bigger than she had imagined and he was grumbling louder than ever. It seemed he was sick, very sick. The monster had tried to eat the sock teddy because she could see it in his mouth going around and around.



For a moment Aimee worried that the monster had eaten Patch too but then she noticed something that made her smile...Patch. Her old bear was sat right next to the monster, who was still grumbling very loud indeed. Without hesitation Aimee darted into the room, grabbed her bear and ran back out, slamming the door shut behind her!


When Aimee was back in her bed she checked to see if Patch was okay and he was, in fact he was perfect. Patch had brand new stitching and a new patch on his belly to stop his fluff from falling out. He was also very clean.
The monster must have decided that Patch was too nice to eat.


Never again did the monster try to steal Patch, because now the monster was now too afraid of Aimee.


(Note: The illustrations would subtly show in the background that it was Aimee's mother who took and cleaned/fixed Patch. The monster is actually the washing machine. The silhouette of the machine will look like a monster because the clothes on the top of it will be shaped like horns and its switches/buttons will glow red like eyes. The light from the door being open will illuminate the room just enough so that Aimee can see where Patch is)