Oral Exercise. 1. Tell your classmates how you think fairies look. How tall do you think they are? What kind of clothes do they wear? After you have answered these questions, draw on the board or on paper, with colored chalks or crayons, a picture of a fairy.
2. Do fairies always walk or run, or can they fly, or have they tiny horses and wagons?
3. Can you see the picture of the fairies in the following lines? What do those lines tell you about fairies that you did not know before?
Their caps of red, their cloaks of green,
Are hung with silver bells,
And when they're shaken with the wind
Their merry ringing swells.
And riding on the crimson moths
With black spots on their wings,
They guide them down the purple sky
With golden bridle rings.
Robert M. Bird, "The Fairy Folk"
4. Where do you think the fairies live? What do they eat? The following poem gives one answer to these questions, and tells us still more about fairies. What is the name of the poem? The child that sings it is afraid of fairies. Do you know any other children that are afraid of them?
"AND RIDING ON THE CRIMSON MOTHS"
A CHILD'S SONG