Truthfulness: Peter and the Wolf interactive story

"Truthfulness is the foundation of all human virtues."

Summary: When telling the story of 'Peter and the wolf', the kids act out different roles

Cast:

Narrator: A person who knows the story

Peter

The Wolf

Villagers

sheep

sheepdog

• Give everyone a role to play in the story. Obviously the most important ones are Peter, the wolf, and at least one villager. The kids act out the parts as the narrator tells the story.

"One day in a village there lived a little boy named Peter. In his village his job was to watch the sheep to make sure wolves or other animals didn't harm the herds. His parents and all the other adults and kids were very busy doing other jobs so sometimes Peter would get bored.

On a particularly slow day he decided to make it a little more interesting.

Peter yelled, " WOLF! There's a WOLF attacking the sheep! Help!"

Everyone came running from their homes and jobs to come help get the wolf away, but when they got to the fields they realize the call for help was a lie. Peter just started laughing. He laughed and laughed, because he played such a joke on everyone. Angrily, the villagers went back to their duties.

The next day, Peter went out with the sheep. Eventually, he became bored again. It was so funny yesterday that he decided to play the same joke on everyone.

He yelled, "Wolf! There is a wolf attacking the sheep!"

The villagers came running to the fields to Peter's aid only to find that again, Peter had lied. There is no wolf. Peter just laughed and laughed.

"How silly your faces are, running out here! Ha ha ha!"

Very angrily, the villagers return to their work and homes.

The following day Peter is out with the sheep. Peter began to realize that the villagers were very angry with him so he was going to behave today.

Suddenly, out from behind a bush, a wolf appeared!

Peter was so scared and yelled, "Wolf! There's a wolf here! Help!"

He looked to the village.... no one was coming. He yelled again ,"Help!"

Again, no one came.

Peter watched as the Wolf ate up all the sheep.

You see, when Peter kept lying to the villagers, they stopped trusting him. Eventually, Peter lied so many times that when he actually was telling the truth, they didn't believe him.

In the end,the Wolf tried to eat Peter to... but he just barely got away.

After that, he remembered to tell the truth."