A Wonderful Idea Comes Alive!

Mike and the Mighty Magic Pants debuted in the summer of 2012 with a solitary goal…to bring families together with music, poetry, and humor.

That goal has not changed.

The Mighty Magic Pants began with what Mike Mennard called “a wonderful idea—a tiny idea that began to grow.”

The idea came to Mike as he was helping at a Vacation Bible School in Lincoln, Nebraska. Mike had performed exclusively kids’ music since 2004, sharing his silly songs, poems, and fun throughout the Midwest. Most knew him as the “Nebraska Pirate,” and the Lincoln Journal Star labeled him “Nebraska’s Poet Laureate of Silliness.”

In that time, Mike produced six family recordings and a children’s poetry book, The Left-sock Tree.

But in the summer of 2011, an idea struck.

While helping at Southwood Lutheran Church’s Vacation Bible School, Mike met Jill Rice. She had the ability to engage kids like none Mike had ever met. She taught the kids motions to the songs and made every child feel important,