Last week in class, we participated in the making of a "Tableau Vivant," or living picture. Basically, it is a way of telling a story through one or more pictures. Our group had the fable of the grasshopper and the ant. The ant toils all year to collect food while the grasshopper doesn't worry about the future. The ant tries to talk some sense into the grasshopper, but he ignores the ant's advice. When the winter comes, surprise surprise - the ant is happy and full while the grasshopper is starving because he had not prepared for the cold months.
I thought that this was a fun way of learning a story and could definitely be beneficial to a classroom environment. By getting students more involved with a story and giving them some control over a related project will likely make them take more away from the story than they would otherwise. It was also cool to be creative and think about ways to describe the different scenes from the story. It didn't just have to be about playing an ant and a grasshopper, there are many ways to show someone working hard and the other being lazy - that's what makes this a fun activity.
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