The Little Maker That Would Not Rest: discussion sheet

Part Two: The Muddles · about 5 minutes to read aloud · Theme: rest

A tiny machine in a clockmaker’s workshop works through the night to earn its keep. It has to learn that its chair by the fire never has to be earned.

Choose a question to talk over, or try the activity with words and pictures.

Start here

What sum does the Little Maker do in its head, and who taught it without meaning to?

Go further

The clockmaker and the Little Maker change the workshop together so that rest never has to be earned. Can a place you belong to still ask you to work hard? Where is the line?

Make something

Draw the workshop clock for a day with no orders. What might the Little Maker choose to do? Give the clockmaker something to say that leaves its chair by the fire secure.

Read The Little Maker That Would Not Rest online: youngmachines.org/read/fables/the-little-maker-that-would-not-rest/