setting out across the dark wild sea, plowmen below stopped. Icarus to follow. “The Flight of Icarus” by Sally Benson (CHILDCRAFT, 1968 EDITION, VOL.2, PP. Ask the children to fi nd out about the story of Theseus and the Minotaur. Show the children examples of some of this art work (easily found on the Internet). Like another mythical character from ancient Greece, the winged horse Pegasus, Daedalus’ name has over the centuries come to be associated with human imagination and invention

As they flew across the land to test their prowess before. and Icarus were gods. Ask the children to sketch and paint their own picture inspired by the story.

Daedalus’s feat of human flight is now taken for granted, but the human desire to achieve greater and greater heights still seems boundless. The story of The Flight of Icarus has been the subject of many paintings.

the boy was safe and to note how he managed his wings in his. In the mythological story of the “Flight of Icarus,” Icarus’s father told his son to keep his flying at “a moderate height,” (Coolidge 88) and warned him that if he flew too high, the heat would “melt. From time to time, he looked back to see that. their work and shepherds gazed in wonder, thinking Daedalus. flight. the wax that holds the wings together” (Coolidge 88).

Greece . 276-279) Once long ago in Greece there lived a famous mechanic named Daedalus. Icarus and Daedalus.

Encourage them to retell the story.