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Kid requests become bedtime adventures.
Maked Up Stories builds custom children's tales from requests, then lets the young requester react afterward. Its adventures move from karate grading to Catalonia ice cream carts, Boston creepy houses, magic lamps, living Pokemon cards, and sea-witch stories.
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Maked Up Stories is built around the imaginative logic of children's requests. A child asks for a genie wish, a flying dinosaur, a living Pokemon card, a ninja mask, or a creepy Boston house, and the episode turns that prompt into a complete narrated adventure. The show keeps the request visible instead of sanding it down. That gives the stories their charm. They can leap from Girona's stone streets to a sky-crossing ice cream cart, then land in Tokyo or the Sahara with flavors matched to feelings. They can begin with a birthday party and end with a lesson about why always winning is not as satisfying as earning a win. Everyday child life is a major part of the texture. Karate grading, schoolyards, pizza, birthday cakes, rec centers, friends, parents, and bedtime all sit comfortably beside spells and enchanted objects. The storytelling pace is relaxed and conversational, with room for questions before and after the tale. It often sounds like an adult carefully following a child's premise while shaping it into something with stakes, humor, and emotional resolution. The moral lessons are usually folded into the plot rather than announced from the start. Jesse's wish to never fall becomes a story about fairness and confidence. The dark land story becomes a negotiation with a king who learns that taking over the day is not a good idea. Phoebe's suspicious view of Eleanor's old house turns into a friendship story with a clear, careful explanation of albinism. The show also creates a small listener culture around requests, voice memos, birthday mentions, and challenges tied to classic children's stories. Some episodes carry mild suspense, especially when darkness, witches, or creepy houses appear, but the tone remains protective and child-aware. Amanda is the most clearly named recurring host in the excerpts, and Jonah is named as a co-host in one episode. The series suits children who like being part of the story, and grown-ups looking for gentle, personalized-feeling audio that still has plot momentum. Its strongest signature is the way it honors kid specificity: the odd detail is not a throwaway joke, but the engine of the adventure.
Made for: For children who enjoy magical bedtime stories with familiar kid-world details, and for grown-ups who want gentle audio built around listener imagination. It especially suits kids who like hearing names, places, objects, and questions folded into the adventure.
What sets it apart: The show feels custom-made because each story visibly grows from a child's own prompt, including the quirky specifics. It blends listener participation and patient moral storytelling without losing the strangeness of the original request.
Daily, imaginative kid's stories, hosted by dad Steven Ebin and his son Jonah. Please share and subscribe. Visit: https://www.makedupstories.com
A gumball-machine escape turns your bedtime into a launchpad, with Boston and the forest still ahead.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A familiar classic becomes a cozy improvised story time with a listening challenge attached.
The story leans on The Velveteen Rabbit as a warm stand-in when Amanda and Jonah have not had time to write a fresh tale, with Amanda framing it as one of her childhood favorites.
A spooky Boston story that uses history, science, and friendship to keep its mystery kid-sized.
This episode turns Phoebe's Boston request into a spooky, kid-sized mystery, using a creepy house, a white snow wolf, a black cat, and the later realization that the old house is home to a very nice girl.
World folktales told with warmth and wonder.
Big little stories for bedtime imaginations.
Original mysteries by night-light glow.
Storybook adventures for small, vivid imaginations.
Phoebe, a nine-year-old in Boston, thinks the old Victorian mansion across the street is haunted until she meets Eleanor, the pale, white-haired girl who lives there.
This episode tells a story for six-year-old listener Ishen from Girona, Catalonia.
In this episode of Makeup Stories, Amanda narrates the classic tale 'The Velveteen Rabbit' by Marjorie Williams.
A children's story podcast continues a tale about mermaids Sienna and Marina protecting the ocean from a sea witch's curse.
A father and son create an imaginative story about a boy named Jesse who learns about renewable energy while building a never-ending lava volcano.
A children's story podcast continues the tale of Sienna and the Curse of the Sea Witch, with a recap of a pirate's quest for a treasure box containing an evil sea witch.
Jessie uses invisible superpowers to pull a candy apple from a food truck.
A children's storytelling podcast continuing the adventure of Sienna and the Curse of the Sea Witch, with a birthday shout-out and recap.
Mr. Bruce explains how forests become baseball bats, paper towels, houses, and toothpaste.
Leila and Charlie exchange gifts across Calypso Island's wall despite rules separating cheetahs and leopards.