Father Sun and Mother moon had many children. Their children were the stars. When they were old enough they carried yellow lamps to help light the night sky with their Mom, for all the creatures on Earth to see.
Several of the stars got bored with their job helping their Mom, especially in the winter when alot of the earth people and animals were sleeping on cold nights.
One winter night they refused to twinkle - instead they ran off and played. They ignored their Mother's stern order to continue twinkling in the night sky. Suddenly a Colorado Chinook blowed out of the mountains, with gusts almost 100 mph. The big old Cottonwood trees groaned as the wind roared through them.
The poor kid stars got blown right out of the sky onto the ground. They looked up at the night sky that was much darker without their twinkling. They got real scared.
In the morning they called out to their Dad, the Sun. They asked him to help them get back up to the sky. Their Dad said he was sorry, when something leaves the sky it cannot come back.
The poor little kid stars cried every night. Their Mom the moon was sad too, because she missed her kids. She sang a little song to them every night:
'Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, How I wonder where you are?'
Some earth kids heard this and began humming the melody at night.
Winter passed. January, February, March.
In April Father Sun looked down and saw how sad his children were on the bare ground. He heard his wife the moon sing her sad song every night. Father Sun felt sorry for the naughty children, and took pity on them. He turned them into bright yellow flowers in which they could hold their yellow lamps. This made the stars feel much better. They were happy holding their lamps, bringing light and happiness to the earth. These flowers are dandelions. When one remembers back at how he/she was naughty and refused to help its Mom, their bright yellow lamp goes gray and stops twinkling.