Crow and Snake Story Moral Story For Kids

The crow and the snake story is one the most famous stories in the Panchatantra series. This story teaches how a wise idea can be helpful in tough situations.
Near a kingdom, there lived Kaa, a male crow, and Kii, a female crow on a big tree. They lived happily together until a big snake named ‘Saap’ came from nowhere and started living in the hole of the same big tree where they lived.
One day, Kii laid one egg. Kii and Kaa were delighted as very soon a little crow will be joining them. After some time, Kii and Kaa went in search of food. Watching Kii and Kaa leave, Saap crawled up to their nest and ate the egg.
After a while, when Kii and Kaa reached their nest, they were shocked as their egg was missing. Kii and Kaa were downhearted as they could not find their egg. They were not able to realize how their egg had disappeared.
After some days, Kii has laid an egg again. Kii and Kaa were happy again but also were afraid of leaving the egg alone in their nest. So, they planned to stay a bit longer in their nest to check if anyone was coming to their nest in their absence. Saap was watching the nest and was waiting for the crows to leave their nest.
After some time, as no one was coming, Kii and Kaa decided to go in search of food. The moment the crows left the nest, Saap went to the crow’s nest and ate the egg again.
After reaching the nest, Kii and Kaa were very unhappy and upset as they lost their egg again. This time they realized that Saap came to their nest and ate their egg. Kii and Kaa wanted to teach a lesson to Saap but as Saap was stronger and bigger than them, they could not do anything.
There was a fox named Jack who was living in the same kingdom. Jack was very wise and also a friend of Kii and Kaa. He helped many animals to overcome difficult situations with his brilliant ideas. One day, Kii and Kaa decided to meet Jack and tell him their problem. They started from their home and reached Jack's home. Jack was very happy to see their crow friends and welcomed them. He noticed that his friends were unhappy and something bad happened to them. He asked them why they were upset and unhappy. Then Kii narrated the whole story to him. She told Jack about Saap who ate all their eggs when they were not in their home and asked Jack to help them to teach a life lesson to Saap.
Jack thought for a while and told them to go to the river the next day. He told Kii to pick up the royal women's necklace while they were bathing and drop that necklace in the tree hole where Saap lived. He also told Kaa to shout loudly, so that the guards could notice them. The crows agreed to Jack’s plan.
The next day, as per Jack’s plan, both the crows reached the river. They saw royal women bathing in the river and the guards guarding their Jewellery from a distance. Kii slowly flew near the box where jewellery was kept, took the necklace, and flew away. Meanwhile, Kaa began to shout loudly to grab the guards attention. The guards noticed the crows with the necklace and started running after them. Soon after they reached the big tree, Kii dropped the necklace into the tree hole where Saap lived. The guards tried to pick the necklace from that hole but Saap came out and tried to bite the guards. The guards immediately beat Saap to death with their sticks as it might bite them and picked up the necklace from that tree hole and went away. Kii and Kaa were very happy as Saap got killed and thanked their friend Jack for the brilliant idea. The Moral of the story is intelligence is always greater than strength.