DLTK's Educational Activities:  Aesop's Fables
The Lion and the Mouse Printable Felt Board Characters

In this section I've put together some simple pages to go with the fable.  You can use them in a couple of ways:

Use the sheets as...  PUPPETS

• Either print the black and white sheet to color
  OR
• print the color page
• Cut out each image and tape it to a popsicle stick or an unsharpened pencil.

Use the sheets as...  FELT BOARD CHARACTERS

• Either print the black and white sheet to color
  OR
• print the color page
• You can cover with clear contact paper or laminate if you want them to last longer.
• Cut out each character.
• Cut out a small piece of coarse sandpaper and tape or glue it on the back of each character (if you laminated, it will need to be a larger piece of sandpaper).  The sandpaper will allow the characters to stick on your felt board.
• The fable is quite short, but if you own a felt board it's still nice to put up felt board characters and point to them as they are mentioned in the story.  I have included quotes from the story in italics to give ideas about how I might use the felt board characters.
  • (paragraph 1)  A lion lay asleep...:  put up the LION
  • (paragraph 1)  A timid little mouse...:  put up the MOUSE
  • (paragraph 4)  The hunters...:  put up the HUNTER
  • put up the moral and discuss.

Templates:

• Close the template window after printing to return to this screen.
• Set page margins to zero if you have trouble fitting the template on one page (FILE, PAGE SETUP or FILE, PRINTER SETUP in most browsers).

Template     color   or    B&W

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