Without a drop of rain, I staged a few of my upcoming Princess Frogs displays for Halloween. It was my first time seeing all the display elements – Princess Frogs, signs, lily ponds, and foliage—together.
I was overjoyed when a young girl passing by screamed, “Princess Frogs!” when she spotted my display. Her mother told me that her daughter loves to dress up as a princess. My target audience gets me!! My display will be on one of New York City’s iconic Halloween Streets, where over 2,000 children trick-or-treat annually.
Everything, except the wigs and crowns, is made from recycled materials – water bottles, pizza boxes, FedEx boxes, paper towels, toilet paper rolls, New York Times newspapers, bubble wrap, coffee cans, lids, and packing foam.
Toad White
In the forest so green and wide,
Lives a toad, Toad White, with seven dwarfs by her side.
Her skin is bumpy, her voice so low,
But she is kind and gentle to all she knows
She spends her days hopping and leaping
and her nights on a lily pad, quietly sleeping
The Seven Dwarfs work in a field
harvesting corn that they later peel
She often visits them during the day
and reads them stories to keep them entertained
With her quick wit and sense of humor
she makes long days pass much sooner
One day, a prince passes her way,
And sees Toad White, a toad so gray.
He picks her up, kisses her head,
And suddenly, she is no longer dead.
Toad White transforms, to her surprise,
A princess now, before her eyes.
But she never forgets her humble start,
As a toad with a kind and gentle heart.
so the couple settles in a castle near a pond
so she will never forget her bond
with seven dwarfs who are her friends
so they all live happily together in the end
My Princess Frogs display is a twist on the perennial tale Frog Prince. Instead of a woman kissing a frog to break the spell and turn it back into a prince, I wondered if a man would be willing to kiss a frog and turn it back into a princess.
If a man was willing to kiss a frog, would the frog want to be turned back into a Princess? Sarah Ferguson, Diana Spencer, and Meghan Markle‘s comments about a princess’s real life make it clear it’s not all it’s cracked up to be. Life as a frog might be much easier than life as a princess.