After a staggering 515 entries we have finally narrowed down the 3 winners!  We asked students in 4th, 5th or 6th grade to pick a fairy tale and tell us what happens next!  Their choices were Snow White, Little Red Riding Hood, The Frog Prince and Hansel and Gretel.  We had some amazing entries!  There is some major creativity in this area!

Congratulations and thank you to everyone who participated!!!

And here are the winning stories!

1st Place- by Jill (What happens next in Snow White)

Now this is where you would think Snow White & The Prince would live happily ever after.  However, that is not the case in this story.  The piece of poisonous apple changed Snow White forever!  She wanted revenge on the Queen.  After the wedding, the seven dwarfs moved into the castle with the Prince & Snow White.  Snow White knew she alone couldn't get back at the Queen so she asked the seven dwarfs for help.

First Snow White asked Sneezy for help.  She told him to sneeze on the Queen and tell her that he has the plague so now she does.  Unfortunately he sneezed on her and told her she was going to have to puke.  Next Snow White asked Sleepy to help her.  She told Sleepy to hypnotize the Queen and tell her to go to sleep for 20 years.  Instead, Sleepy screwed up and told her to sleep for 20 minutes.  Then Snow White asked Bashful to help.  The plan was to have Bashful stiff-arm the Queen down a steep hill.  Unfortunately, Bashful picked the wrong hill and the Queen only got a grass stain.  Next Snow White asked Dopey.  She told Dopey to shave the Queen's head.  However, Dopey got the plan completely wrong.  He combed the Queen's hair instead of shaving it!  The fift dwarf to help was Doc.  The plan was to have Doc draw red spots on the Queen with a marker and then convince her she had the chicken pox.  Doc got confused and instead gave her a dalmation tatoo.  Then Snow White asked Happy for help.  Happy's job was to destroy the magic mirror.  However he did break a mirror, just the wrong mirror.  Happy broke the Queen's neighbor's mirror.  Finally Snow White asked Grumpy to play a trick on the Queen.  Grumpy's job was to pour honey all over the Queen while she was sleeping and then let ants into her room.  However Grumpy got messed up and made the Queen toast and put honey on the toast!

After seven failed attempts of getting revenge on the Queen, Snow White decided that if she wanted the job done right she had to do it herself.  Therefore she took the Queen some strawberries dipped in what looked like chocolate but was really Ex-Lax.  The Queen, being her normal self, didn't share and ate all of the strawberries herself.  Rumor has it that the Queen never left her royal "throne" for a week.  Now Snow White lived happily ever after!

2nd Place - By Josie (What happens next in Hansel & Gretel)

Once Hansel and Gretel were safe at their father's house, Gretel began to think. 
    "How do we know for sure that that woman was a witch? Maybe she wasn't planning on eating us, maybe she was just a kind old woman who had something stuck in her oven that she couldn't reach?" So Gretel proposed the idea to her brother. 
    “Wow Gretel! That is so true! I feel awfully bad now… poor old woman!” sobbed Hansel. 
    “Yeah, maybe we burned her for no reason,” said Gretel. “Let’s go back to the cottage and find out for ourselves.” The siblings decided to be a bit more prepared for this journey, so they brought strips of cloth to tie around trees. The cloth was to makr their path. 
    “Gretel, are you sure the cottage is this way? I clearly smell sugar along this path!” whined Hansel. 
    “That’s just because you’re hungry and you have a nose for sugar!” Gretel explained and knotted another piece of cloth to a nearby tree.

The children had been walking about an hour when they came upon a cottage made of sweets; last time it was on accident, now it was on purpose. 
    “See here Hansel! I was right!” said Gretel proudly. Hansel sniffed crossly and began chomping on the house once again. 
    “Hansel- come ON!” Gretel dragged her brother into the small house. 
    “Ugh- what is that smell??” Hansel asked once he had entered the house. 
    “It smells like… it smells like burning eggs… and a burning human!” cried Gretel and she ran to the oven. She turned it off, yanked open the door to the oven and heaved out an old woman, black with ashes, scorched and burnt. Then Gretel reached in the oven for a second time, looked at what she held in her hands and began to sob. 
    “Gretel? What is it?” 
    “Th-there was an egg stuck to the top of the oven!” said Gretel in between sobs. 
    “So… so the woman didn’t want to burn us?” questioned Hansel. 
    “Right…!” 
    “Well, maybe she’s not dead. Maybe…er…maybe kind old women can’t be burned to death!” Hansel said optimistically. With that he walked out of the house, took a chunk of bread off it, and walked back inside. 
    “Watch and learn, my dear sister!” Hansel took the bread and waved it above the woman’s face. Suddenly she sprang up. 
    “Good morning! How long was I out?” she asked. Gretel lifted her hands from her face and her tears subsided. 
    “Y-you’re alive?” inquired Gretel. 
    “You bet! Now, who’s ready for some tea?” The old woman stood up cautiously, brushed off her scalded clothes, and poured some water into a teapot. When she was doing this, Gretel noticed how short her arms were. 
    “I get why should couldn’t get that egg!” she thought. It was almost funny, now that the woman was alive. The woman finished the tea and poured both Hansel and Gretel a cup. 
    “Thanks,” they murmured. After a long teatime conversation with the woman, Hansel and Gretel gave her their thanks and invited her to visit them at their father’s place. 
    “I’d love to!” the woman was very pleased with the offer. 
    “Yes, come whenever you please!” 
    “I will, thank you dearly children!” 
    “No, no thank you ma’am!” The siblings bade the woman good-bye and retraced their steps back home.

3rd Place - by Megan (What happens next in Hansel & Gretel)

"Was her whole house really made out of candy?" asked one of the kids in amazement.  Hansel and Gretel had just finished telling us (their school friends) about their close call with the witch.  Most of us were really excited about the house made entirely of candy, but I (Lucy) prefer fruits and vegetables.  We were all gathered at Hansel and Gretel's house.  They were going to take us to see the witch's house.  "Does everyone have their candy collecting bags?" asked Hansel.  "Remember," Gretel said to the group, "eat all you can, and then fill your bags." With that we started strolling along to the candy house. 

When we arrived, every single child, including myself, was astounded at the enormous house of candy.  The walls were gingerbread, the windows were chocolate covered pretzels, the shingles of the roof were peppermints, and the house itself was held together by pure chocolate frosting.

At once, the children started eating.  They ate and ate.  Soon they were so stuffed, they could hardly move!  As they settled down to rest, inside, on the house's soft marshmallow floors, I went out to explore.  About ten yards behind the house, I discovered a shed.  Inside there was a box that said "DO NOT OPEN, so naturally, I opened it.

Meanwhile back at the house, the children were just waking up when suddenly the door opened.  Outside there stood a witch in a dress made of candy.  It looked just like the witch Hansel and Gretel had escaped from!  "I thought Hansel and I cooked you!" said Gretel as the witch walked in.

"That was my twin sister Molly.  I am Holly, and you and your little friends are in big trouble." Holly the witch snapped her fingers and suddenly a cage fell over the children.

"Uh, oh," Hansel gulped.

I was surprised when I opened the box that said not to open it.  Inside was a little packet (it looked like one of those packets flower seeds come in). It was called "Fruit and Vegetable Powder" and on the back it said "If you want to destroy witches and their property, pour this powder over the little yellow dot on the floor of the house.  The witch will be destroyed, and all her property will turn into a fruit or a vegetable." Wow, what luck, I thought! Although I didn't know of the other children's peril, I did think that a vegetable house would be better for everyone than a candy house.

As soon as I arrived at the house, I knew there was trouble.  Then I saw Holly the witch.  I crept into the house, and found the yellow dot.  It was under the table.  I poured the powder on it.  Holly the witch melted and fruits and vegetables grew all around me.  We were saved!

I am a hero.  The fruit and vegetables fed the town for years to come, and never again did we hear from another witch.