Kids Moral Stories

Once upon a time there lived a dog in a his master's house. Once the master's son brought a donkey for his work. The dog guarded his house and the donkey carried loads for him. It was a hot summer day. The dog was sleeping under the shady tree near to the house. There was some noise outside. The dog just lifted up his head and went back to sleep. The donkey asked, “Why don’t you bark. It could be thieves”. The dog replied, “Mind your own business”. But the donkey would not listen. He wanted to save his master from thieves. He started to bray. The master who was sound asleep got wild with the donkey and came running out with a stick and gave hard beatings to the donkey. Moral: It is always better to mind your own business without interfering others work. 

Once upon a time there lived a large group of mice in a old house. The house was always full of food and the mice never had any problem. The owner of the house was aware of the problem. So, he brought a cute white cat. Now the mice were not able to move about freely and even if they did, the cat always caught hold of them. Hence, they assembled to think of a plan. One smart mouse suggested tying a bell around the cat’s neck so they would know whenever the cat approaches them. Now the question was “Who will tie the bell?” Nobody said a word. The solution was worthless. In the meantime the cat came and pounce one of them. Moral: Making a plan is one thing and executing it is an entirely different thing.

Once there lived a poor woodcutter in a small village. There was a river end of the village. The woodcutter used to cut trees in woods and sale it in the nearby market.  One day he was cutting wood on the bank of the river. His axe fell into the river. The river was deep. He could not take his axe out. He sat on the bank and began to weep. Sometimes later Mercury, the goddess of water appeared. She asked the reason of his weeping.  The woodcutter told the whole story. Mercury dived into the water and brought the golden axe. The woodcutter refused to take it. Mercury again dived in to the water and brought the silver axe. The woodcutter did not take it either. Then she brought iron axe which the woodcutter lost in the river. The woodcutter took it gladly. Mercury was much pleased. She rewarded the woodcutter with the other golden and silver axes. Moral of the story: Honesty is the best policy.

Once there lived a lion in the dense forest. There was a pond in the middle of the forest. The Lion used to drink water and sleep there for sometime every day. One day, the Lion finished drinking water and lay down by the pond. As his eyes were closing, he heard a new sound. It was a hollow, croaky sound. He opened his eyes, but he didn’t see anyone! Then, he heard it a second, and a third time. By now the Lion was scared and thought in fear, `What if it is a ghost?’After sometime, a frog crawled out of the pond and croaked. The Lion saw that he had been scared out of his wits by so small a creature! He grew angry with the Frog and tore it to pieces with his claws. The poor Frog never croaked again! Moral : It is silly to fear anything without complete knowledge of it.

Once upon a time, there lived a king lion in a dense forest. He used to kill as many as animals every day for his meal. The animals were worried and went to discuss this with the lion king. He agreed not to kill any other animal if one of them voluntarily comes to him everyday. This went on for long. One day, it was a rabbit’s turn. As he was on his way, he sees an old well and hatches a plan to kill the lion. He goes to the lion and tells him that there is another lion who claims to be stronger than him. The lion, then asks the rabbit to meet the said lion. The rabbit takes him to the well and points to it saying that was where the other lion lived. The lion jumps into the well, mistaking his own reflection for the other lion and dies. Moral: Intelligence can save us from the worst situations.

There was a lion lived in a dense forest. It was a hot summer day. The lion was feeling very hungry at morning. He came out of his den and searched here and there. He could find only a small hare. He caught the hare with some hesitation. “This hare cannot fill my stomach” thought the lion. As the lion was about to kill the hare, a deer ran that way. The lion became greedy. He thought, “Instead of eating this small hare let me eat the big deer”. He let the hare go and went behind the deer. But, the deer had vanished into the forest. The lion now felt sorry for letting the hare off. Moral: A bird in hand is worth tow in the bush. 

Once there lived two friends in a desert village. One fine morning two friends were walking through the desert. During some point of the journey they had an argument, and one friend slapped the other one in the face. The one who got slapped was hurt, but without saying anything, wrote in the sand: "today my best friend slapped me on my face." They kept on walking until they found a stream, where they decided to take a bath. The one, who had been slapped, got stuck in the mire and started drowning, but the friend saved him. After the friend recovered from the near drowning, he wrote on a stone: "today my best friend saved my life." Two Best friends The friend who had slapped and saved his best friend asked him, "After I hurt you, you wrote in the sand and now, you write on a stone, why?" The other friend replied: "When someone hurts us, we should write it down in sand where winds of forgiveness can erase it away. But, when someone does some...

Once there lived a bird who had two heads. The bird lived on a tree by the side of the river of Godavari. He had two heads but one stomach. One day the bird was wandering for his food. After a long time he got a fruit to eat. It was very happy.  The first mouth was about to eat the full fruit. The second mouth stopped the first mouth and demanded half of the fruit. “I will not give you anything," said the first mouth and ate all the prey.  The other mouth got angry. In order to take revenge, it decided to do some thing. It searched and gulped the poison it found. “Though the mouths are two, the stomach is only one. The same stomach. is not it?" So the poison spread all over the body. The strange bird died.  Moral: Sharing of a good thing with others is always good.

Once there lived a fox in a forest. It was a winter day. The fox feels hungry. He came across the countryside. He  happened to pass through a vineyard. On seeing  the lush grapes his mouth  watered. First he lifted  his  head  and  stretched  out.  He could  not  reach  the  grapes. He felt the grapes to  be higher. Then he stood on his back legs and stretch. Again, he could not reach them.  Finally, he jumped up and jumped up. Even  then, he could not reach them. The  grapes were  too  high  to  reach. The fox was  too  tired  to try again, So, he  left  the place murmuring, “The  grapes are sour. Who would eat sour grapes?”. Moral: A wise mans accepts the defeat sportingly.

Once upon a time there lived four cows in a small farm in a small village. They were good friends and did everything together. In the end of that village there was a big forest. They grazed together in the forest. They always stayed together while grazing in the forest, because of which no animals were able to kill them. But one day, the friends fought each other for some reason. Now each of them went to graze in a different direction. That day a tiger came across that place and saw all of them separated.  The tiger decided that it was the perfect opportunity to kill all of them. The tiger hid in the bushes and surprised the cows and killed one by one. At last it kills every cows. Moral: Unity is strength. Divided we fall.