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Happy Fairy Tale Day! My daughter's grade five class is doing a fun activity this week called The Golden Wand Awards. The students each have to pretend to be a fairy tale character. The characters have been nominated for Fairy Tale Awards in a variety of categories. Each character has to have an acceptance speech ready in case they win! 

Would you like to play along? 

Your Task 

1. Choose a category below that interests you (e.g. Best Villain).

2. Choose a fairy tale character who might be nominated for that award. Read the fairy tale your character is in if you are unfamiliar with it. 

3.  Start a new blog post. Use the title: Writing Challenge: Fairy Tale Awards. Write an acceptance speech (in first-person narrative form) thanking the Fairy Tale Academy for giving you the award in your category (e.g., Best Hair). 

4. Publish your acceptance speech and share a link in the comments. You could record it, too!

5. Read acceptance speeches by other members. If a number of people participate, I will create a form so that we can vote.

Awards and Nominees 

These are just a few options. Feel free to create a new award and nominee. 

• Best Hair: Rapunzel, The Little Mermaid, Goldilocks
• Best Villain: The Big Bad Wolf, The Wicked Witch, Ugly Stepsister, Evil Stepmother, Troll, Queen of Hearts
• Most Innocent: Baby Bear, Little Red Riding Hood, Sleeping Beauty, Hansel and Gretel
• Most Enchanting: Prince Charming, Cinderella, Fairy Godmother, Snow White 
• Least Brilliant: First Pig, Alice in Wonderland, The Gingerbread Man
• Best Dressed: Cinderella, Puss in Boots, Peter Pan

My Example

Category: Best Villain | Queen of Hearts

Thank you, everyone. Please, please have a seat. Hurry up! I'd like to begin. Do you like my red dress? My designer originally made it red with white roses, but of course it was supposed to be white with red roses! I had my people paint it and my seamstress lost her head over it. In other words, I'm hiring if you know a good designer.

Excuse me! There is still one man standing up! Off with his head! Oh, wait. Is that the King of Hearts? You can hardly see the insignificant man even when he's right in front of your nose! 

Now, where was I? It is an honour to win Best Villain today, though I can't say I'm surprised. I always strive to be wicked, evil, and memorable. Please do not call me psychotic. I know exactly what I'm doing, and by giving me this award, you have all made it clear that Alice deserves to die.  And yet, she is still exploring Wonderland last I heard. 

Would you please turn that music off?! I'm not finished! Apparently I'm supposed to thank someone. But, who is there to thank, but myself? Perhaps I should thank the Fairy Tale Academy for including such an important category for the first time ever. Now, I must go. I'm late for my croquet game. Husband, bring me my flamingo!