One of my favorite children’s stories is The Mitten. If you are not familiar with this book. The story has been around for a long time. It originally was a Ukrainian folk tale and has been retold many times. It has most recently been made famous by author Jan Brett. This post contains affiliate advertisement links to 3rd party sites. When I was in college, ahem, a while ago, I was in a children’s theater troupe. We traveled to elementary schools performing improvisational skits for the children. One story that we did was The Mitten.  We told the story entirely using improvisation to act out the story scene. We each pretended to…