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The Festival of Lanterns A Rapunzel Adventure Bedtime Story for Kids Fairy Tale 2025

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00:00once upon a time in a quiet kingdom by the river there stood a tall stone tower wrapped in roses and laughter this was the home of rapunzel the kind princess with hair as golden as sunshine and a heart even brighter every year on the first night of spring the entire kingdom celebrated the festival of lanterns
00:21people from every village would gather light their lanterns and send them floating into the night sky like glowing stars it was a tradition of hope wishes and remembering the light within us all rapunzel loved the festival more than any other day she'd paint lanterns all week each one different
00:41blue with silver stars red with tiny hearts purple with swirling vines her little animal friends pascal the chameleon waffle the squirrel and clover the hedgehog helped her decorate oh pascal rapunzel said one morning as she held up a lantern shaped like a flower
00:59this one is for my wish to visit the glowing meadows beyond the mountains pascal gave a proud little nod but this year something strange happened that night as the crowd lit their lanterns in the castle courtyard one by one they began to rise and then
01:16stop stop the lanterns the lanterns hovered flickered and gently fell to the ground everyone gasped even rapunzel's lantern the one she had whispered her secret dream into drifted down like a sleepy firefly what in the kingdom said clover scratching his tiny head
01:33waffle peeked from under rapunzel's braid lanterns don't fall they float rapunzel's eyes widened something's wrong with the sky and just like that her adventure began the next morning
01:45rapunzel rapunzel packed a small bag one lantern a bit of bread and cheese a sketchbook and a glowing pebble from the garden she placed pascal on her shoulder let's go find the wind she whispered
01:57waffle and clover insisted on coming too after all they were an adventure team they followed the breeze or rather the lack of it into the windless woods a forest once filled with rustling leaves and birdsong
02:09now it was quiet not scary just still feels like the trees are holding their breath clover mumbled they came upon a very old tree with a spiral carved into its trunk
02:22rapunzel placed her hand on it it's warm suddenly the spiral glowed the tree creaked open slowly revealing a tiny wooden door and a staircase made of roots leading underground
02:32oh my said waffle now that's a twist pascal tilted his head should we go rapunzel nodded
02:39we follow the lantern's path no matter where it leads the staircase led them to a hidden chamber beneath the forest floor
02:47soft blue light shimmered on the walls
02:50in the center sat an old round creature wearing glasses made of cobwebs and feathers
02:57he looked like a mix between a turtle and a cloud i am the keeper of the breeze he wheezed you seek the missing wind
03:05rapunzel curtsied yes kind sir our lanterns cannot fly the sky feels heavy the keeper sighed and leaned forward
03:12the wind has gone missing because the lantern spirit has not sung in days
03:16she is sad sad waffle blinked why would a spirit be sad
03:21she's forgotten her song the keeper whispered
03:25rapunzel's brow furrowed then we must help her remember
03:28the keeper handed her a glowing feather
03:30take this to the cloud garden
03:33the spirit rests in the highest tower of the floating castle
03:36pascal gulped floating castle
03:38with the magic feather rapunzel and her friends
03:41rode the winds up to a breathtaking castle
03:44made of clouds and music
03:46soft harp notes dance through the air
03:49giant dandelion seeds floated like balloons
03:53at the tallest spire they found the lantern spirit
03:56a glowing figure shaped like a lantern flame
03:59with eyes as kind as morning sunlight
04:01she sat curled in a corner quiet her light dim
04:04i forgot the song she said softly
04:07without it there is no wind and the lanterns can't rise
04:12rapunzel sat beside her
04:15maybe we can remember it together
04:17the lamp
04:32the lamp
04:35the lamp
04:37ti

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