DLTK's Educational Activities: Aesop's Fables
The Goose with the Golden Eggs 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 sheets 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
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) One day a countryman: put up the MAN
- (paragraph 1) ... nest of his goose: put up the GOOSE
- (paragraph 1) ... egg all yellow and glittering: put up the EGG
- (paragraph 2) ... egg of pure gold: point to the EGG
- (paragraph 3) ... killed it: remove the GOOSE
- (paragraph 3) ... find nothing: remove the EGG
- 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).