One hot summer day, a fox was strolling along when he noticed a bunch of juicy grapes just turning ripe, hanging on a vine high above. “Mmm, that’s just the thing to take care of my thirst,” said the fox. He trotted back a few steps, then ran forward and jumped just missing the grapes. He turned around and tried again. “One, two, three, go,” he said, and he lunged at the grapes with all his might. But again, he missed.
Again and again he tried to pluck the grapes from the vine, but at last he gave up. He walked away with his nose in the air, saying, “I didn’t want those old grapes anyway. I’m sure they are sour.”
Moral: You shouldn’t speak badly about something that you once wanted, just because you can’t have it.
Activities:
1. Why would the fox walk away after trying so hard to get the juicy grapes? What would you do if you were the fox?
2. This fable describes many times the fox tried to get the grapes. In the end he did not get them. Suppose the fox was about 30 inches long. The grapes were about 7 feet high. Can you think of a way that the fox might have been able to get the grapes?
3. Draw a fox jumping for grapes. Then watch the video.
