Once upon a time there was a very special group of girls with a very special, very secret job to do. This job was so secret that they didn’t even tell their mommies and daddies. There job was to paint the moon.
These very special girls would one night wake up shortly before the moon rose to find a mysterious bucket of silvery shimmery paint set beside them.
Somehow they always knew just what to do and never once did a little girl find her bucket of paint and not do her job just right.
Out of their beds they would climb, pick up their bucket of paint, sneak from their houses and run to the moon just as it reached the horizon.
They would dip both hands into their bucket of silvery shimmery paint and smear two great big handfuls all over the moon.
Day after day more and more little girls would smear their share of silvery shimmery paint onto the moon and each night as it rose higher into the sky it was a little bit more shimmery, a little bit more silvery.
Soon the whole of the moon would be covered in silvery shimmery paint and it would glow it’s very brightest of all.
Then little by little, the work of the little girls would fade, each day more and more paint would fade away until the moon couldn’t be seen in the night sky at all.
Every time the moon would disappear from the night sky the little girls would set to work once more, painting the moon in silvery shimmery paint handful by handful.
