MADLIBS

Write down random words for the following parts of speech on a piece of paper:

[OCCUPATION]
[ADJECTIVE1]
[NOUN1]
[NOUN2]
[NOUN3]
[ADJECTIVE2]
[NOUN4]
[NOUN5]
[VERB1]
[VERB2]
[ADJECTIVE3]
[ADJECTIVE4]
[ADJECTIVE5]
[PLURAL NOUN1]
[ADJECTIVE6]
[PART OF BODY1]
[ADJECTIVE7]
[NOUN6]
[ADJECTIVE8]
[NOUN7]
[PART OF BODY2]
[SOUND]
[UNIT OF MEASURE]
[SUPERLATIVE]
[PART OF BODY3]
[VERB-ED1]
[NUMBER1]
[NOUN8]
[LENGTH OF TIME1]
[ADJECTIVE9]
[VERB-ING1]
[EMOTION1]
[NOUN9]
[LENGTH OF TIME2]
[ADJECTIVE10]
[SILLY NAME1]
[SILLY NAME2]
[SILLY NAME3]
[PLURAL NOUN2]
[ADJECTIVE11]
[NOUN10]
[NOUN11]
[VERB-ED2]
[VERB-ING2]
[VERB-ING3]
[ADJECTIVE12]
[VERB-ED3]
[PLURAL NOUN3]
[SILLY NAME4]
[SILLY NAME5]
[SILLY NAME6]
[EMOTION2]
[PART OF BODY4]
[PLURAL NOUN4]
[NUMBER2]

Now, fill them into the story:

Once upon a time there lived a [OCCUPATION] who had a [ADJECTIVE1] daughter.

Now the [OCCUPATION] had to visit the king's [NOUN1], and, while there, he happened to meet the king face to face. He told the king that he had a daughter who could spin [NOUN2] into [NOUN3].

Now it happened that the king loved [NOUN3] above all things. So taking the poor girl by the hand, he led her into one of the [ADJECTIVE2] rooms of the [NOUN1].

There, in the middle of the room, stood a spinning [NOUN4], and near it was a great heap of [NOUN2]. The king said, "If you do not spin all of it into [NOUN3] by morning, your [NOUN5] shall be cut off."

The poor girl could only [VERB1] and [VERB2], for she had not the least idea how to spin [NOUN2] into [NOUN3].

The door flew open and a [ADJECTIVE3] [ADJECTIVE4] man stepped into the room. He had [ADJECTIVE5] [PLURAL NOUN1], a [ADJECTIVE6] [PART OF BODY1], and wore a [ADJECTIVE7] [NOUN6]. Bowing low to the maiden, he said: "What will you give me if I will spin it for you?"

"This [ADJECTIVE8] [NOUN7] from my [PART OF BODY2]," said the girl.

The [ADJECTIVE3] man took the [NOUN7], and, sitting down, began to spin.

[SOUND]! [SOUND]! went the [NOUN4]. He kept so busily at work that soon all the [NOUN2] was gone, and in its place lay a [UNIT OF MEASURE] of the [SUPERLATIVE] [NOUN3].

The next morning the king unlocked the door. How his [PART OF BODY3] [VERB-ED1] at the sight of the [NOUN3]!

These riches made the king even more greedy than before. Therefore, this all was repeated [NUMBER1] more times. Finally, the king promised to marry the [OCCUPATION]'s daughter instead of cutting off her [NOUN5], and the girl promised the [ADJECTIVE3] man her firstborn [NOUN8].

The king kept his promise, and about [LENGTH OF TIME1] later the queen had a [ADJECTIVE9] [NOUN8]. But she forgot all about her promise.

One day the [ADJECTIVE3] [ADJECTIVE4] man came [VERB-ING1] into the queen's room and said, "Now give me what you have promised."

The queen was filled with [EMOTION1], and offered him all the [NOUN9] of the kingdom if he would leave her the [NOUN8].

"I will give you [LENGTH OF TIME2]," he said, "and if, in that time, you can guess my name, you shall keep the [NOUN8]."

When the [ADJECTIVE3] man came again, the queen had a [ADJECTIVE10] list of names to give him.

"Is you name [SILLY NAME1], or [SILLY NAME2], or [SILLY NAME3]?" she said to him.

He answered to each one, "No, that is not my name."

The queen's [PLURAL NOUN2] had been far and wide to find new names. One of these [PLURAL NOUN2] said, "I came upon a [ADJECTIVE11] [NOUN10], in front of which a [NOUN11] was burning. Around this [NOUN11] [VERB-ED2] a [ADJECTIVE3] [ADJECTIVE4] man who had a [ADJECTIVE5] [PLURAL NOUN1], a [ADJECTIVE6] [PART OF BODY1], and wore a [ADJECTIVE7] [NOUN6]. He sang:

My [VERB-ING2] and [VERB-ING3] I will do today,
The queen's [NOUN8] to-morrow I will take away,
No [ADJECTIVE12] man can show the queen where to begin,
For my name, to be sure, is [SILLY NAME4]."

The queen [VERB-ED3] her [PLURAL NOUN3] for joy. She knew that at last she had found the name.

At sunset the [ADJECTIVE3] man came [VERB-ING2] and [VERB-ING3] up to the queen.

"Now, O queen," he said, "this is your last chance. Tell me my name."

The queen asked, "Is your name [SILLY NAME5]?"

"No."

"[SILLY NAME6]?"

"No."

"Then your name is [SILLY NAME4]."

He became so [EMOTION2] that he stamped his [PART OF BODY4] right into the ground.

This made him more [EMOTION2] still, and taking hold of his [PART OF BODY4] with both [PLURAL NOUN4], he pulled so hard that he tore himself quite in [NUMBER2].

source text from:
Antelope Publishing Ongoing Tales
The Brothers Grimm, taken from the 1914 Beacon Second Reader
http://ongoing-tales.com/SERIALS/oldtime/FAIRYTALES/stiltskin.html