These tips make tidying up really fun!

With these tips, tidying up is really fun in the Neflental valley

In spring, when the first rays of sunshine kiss the fern meadows of Immergrün, a special day begins in Neflental. The meadows are coloured in fresh green leaves and the fern stalks dance like a sea of green in the wind. Behind the small wooden houses, whose roofs are planted with bright herb gardens, goats bleat happily and chickens peck at the grass. This is where Rosa Immergrün lives, who has a new idea: "With these tips, tidiness is really fun!" she wants to prove today.

These tips make tidying up the fern meadows really fun

After a long winter, colourful stones, cones, woollen threads and moss footprints lie everywhere in the village - leftovers from the last snow flurry. Many meadow gnomes find tidying up boring. And yet Rosa Periwinkle jumps out of bed early and gathers her friends. She shouts: "With these tips, tidying up is really fun, believe me!"

The first thing she does is think of a song. They sing it together: "With these tips, tidying up is really fun, come and tidy up with us, then everything is organised..." They dance rhythmically across the meadow, lift the large bracken leaves and search for treasures hidden in the green carpet. Each thing they find is given a little story. The gnomes tell each other who might have lost the red woollen thread and what might be living under the stone moss block.

Keep the violet glade tidy with these tips

In the violet glade, where violets and crocuses glow like a colourful carpet, Rosa Periwinkle has a surprise in store. In the centre stands an ancient statue, enveloped in moss and tickled by sunshine on the tip of its nose. The colour palette of violet, sunny yellow and pearl grey sparkles among the plants. Here, too, all the children collect what they find: A lost pearl here, a forgotten nutshell there.

Rosa Immergrün proposes a competition: Who can create the most beautiful collection basket? In the end, everyone sits on the soft, flowery carpet and presents their little treasures: colourful stones, beetle wings and glittering dewdrops. It's fun to share with each other. This is how they discover: With these tips, tidying is really fun because they laugh, tell stories and even have a picnic together.

Order becomes an adventure with these tips

Suddenly, one of the meadow gnomes calls out: "Why don't we build a big meeting house out of willow branches?" Everyone lends a hand. Chickens run curiously through the grass, while goats bleat in the background. The gnomes collect sticks, tie ribbons and sort the things they find. In the evening, the collecting house lights up and shines in the colours of spring.

Rosa Immergrün has another trick: if you keep things tidy, you can find important things much more quickly. And there's also plenty of time to experience new adventures. In the end, everyone sits in the grass, exhausted but happy, and realises: With these tips, keeping things tidy is really fun because they no longer have to search for anything, but have everything to hand.

What do we learn from this?

If lots of people help, tidying up is child's play. Singing, telling stories and small competitions make everything much more exciting. With these tips, tidying up really is fun for everyone, even outside on the fern meadows of Immergrün. And if you keep things tidy, you might have more time to dream in the scent of violets and go on a treasure hunt.

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