Alice and Alfie were playing in the windmill and Jacques had gone to market to sell bags of flour. They ran down the stairs and out to the back of the windmill.

Alice said to Alfie, “Please start the sails so I can watch them go round on the windmill.” Alfie went into the mill and turned the big wheel, and called to her, “Alice I have done it.”

She shouted back, “Nothing is happening,” so he went back inside and tried again. The wheel started to move but then stopped. Alice said to Alfie, “Help me push the sail at the bottom.” It still didn’t move at first so they both jumped onto it. All of a sudden the sails started to move, but it was too late for them to get off.

The wind blew and blew and blew as the sails turned faster and faster. Alfie called to the wind, “Can you make it stop please, as I am shaking at my knees.” The wind said it would have to stop on its own, and round and round went the sails, faster and faster. Alice shouted, “I can’t hang on any longer,” and Alfie said, “I’m scared.

I think we are going to crash to the floor.”

The rag dolls could not hold on any longer and they flew off the sails of the windmill and came down with a crash and a bang and landed right on Mr. and Mrs. Rabbit who were sitting in the magical garden. Mr. Rabbit said, “You should watch where you are going when you are flying.”

Alice answered, “We are sorry, it was the wind’s fault.

He blew and blew and blew.”

Mr. Rabbit said, “Pigs might fly but not rag dolls.”

There was a lot going on in the magical garden and

Alice said, “Why is it so busy?”

Mrs. Rabbit replied, “It is the Easter egg hunt tomorrow and everybody has got to hide an egg. Afterwards all the children have to try and find them and the one who finds the most will win a prize. Would you like to hide some?” asked Mrs. Rabbit.

Alice and Alfie replied, “Oh yes please.”

The rabbits gave them two chocolate eggs each to hide.

Alfie put his first egg in a hole in an apple tree and two bees came flying out and stung him on the knees.

To hide his second egg he pulled up a carrot but by the time he had put the egg down into the ground another carrot had popped up. Alfie had forgotten it was a magical garden, so he turned and put his second egg in a bucket next to the shed.

Alice decided to put her two eggs in the hen house so the chickens would sit on them with their other eggs.

The rag dolls told Mr. and Mrs. Rabbit that they would come back the next day to watch the children play.

The next day Alice and Alfie got up early. They crept down the stairs, opened the curtain at the bottom of the stairs and went through the door into the magical garden after saying the magic words.

The animals had already arrived and they all had their babies all in a line. There were ducklings, bunnies, chicks, piglets, baby hedgehogs and little baby squirrels.

All of a sudden Mr. Owl sitting on his perch shouted out, “Let the Easter egg hunt begin.”

All the little animals started running everywhere, looking for the eggs. Mr. Cuckoo come flying in low and knocked Mr. Owl off his perch. Alice could not believe her eyes, the chickens were running around with chocolate on their bottoms. They had been sitting on the eggs and the chocolate ones had melted!

The wood lice had eaten the egg that Alfie had put in the apple tree and all that was left was the wrapper. The worms had eaten the egg under the bucket so they were two eggs down and that meant that some of the children would not get an egg. Alice said, “I will go back and find some more, Alfie.” and off she went back to the windmill.

The sails had stopped going round on the windmill.

Alice crept into the kitchen. She looked on the kitchen table and there were six chocolate Easter eggs. Jacques had bought them for himself. They were only very small so Alice quickly took two of them and put them in her pocket. She rushed back into the secret garden and hid them. It was the perfect end to the Easter egg hunt as all the children found an egg each.

Alice said, “It is very EGGSCITING watching the children playing games.”

Later Alice and Alfie watched the egg and spoon race, roll the hedgehog to pop the balloons and the tug of war. It was the ducks against the piglets, and the sound was amazing. They were going quack, quack and honk, honk when all of a sudden the ducks pulled the piglets over the line to win.

The day was EGGSTRAORDINARY and everybody had a lot of fun. The pigs went home with a honk, honk, honk, the ducks said quack, quack, quack and the chickens scratched all the way home. Mr. Cuckoo just went cuckoo!

Alice and Alfie collected some vegetables for Jacques to replace the two Easter eggs that Alice had taken. They went back to the windmill and put the vegetables on the table next to the other Easter eggs. Suddenly they heard Jacques coming down the stairs and they fell to the floor and heard him say, “How can there be only four Easter eggs instead of six but vegetables in their place?”

Jacques said thank you to the magical windmill for the vegetables. He looked at the rag dolls and thought “That is funny; they have chocolate on their faces.” So he washed their faces and put them to bed on the windowsill.

Before Alice and Alfie fell asleep the moon shone down and said, “I saw what happened today and what fun you had at the Easter egg hunt. Nichole sends her love and two Easter eggs from above.”