The Lion and Mouse
Watch a short video below to learn about the popular children's sculpture The Lion and Mouse by artist Marshall Fredericks.
TRIVIA
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LEARN
Who was Aesop? Aesop was a storyteller that wrote fables and lived between 620 - 564 BCE. Thats over 2500 years ago.
A fable is a story that usually uses animals to teach a valuable life lesson, or moral. This type of story is typically short and has moral at the very end.
Click the image below to learn all about the writer of The Lion and Mouse, and hundreds of other fables.
A fable is a story that usually uses animals to teach a valuable life lesson, or moral. This type of story is typically short and has moral at the very end.
Click the image below to learn all about the writer of The Lion and Mouse, and hundreds of other fables.
THINK
What is the purpose and importance of fables and stories?
What other fables and stories can you think of and what is the moral of the story?
Learn all about fables!
What other fables and stories can you think of and what is the moral of the story?
Learn all about fables!
Color
Click the image below to print and color. Share your masterpiece with us on Facebook. Or share them on Instagram, and use the hashtags #MFSMuseum and #MFSMColors.
Watch
The video below contains about an hour of Aesop fables to watch. YouTube has hundreds of fable videos for you to watch.
ACTIVITY
After you read all about fables can you write your own fable? Remember it should teach a moral or lesson at the end. Here are some popular Aesop fables for you to read to help you write your own fable.