In my work in schools, as well as reading stories aloud, I act them out with children. Some of my best results have been when acting out myths from Greece, Egypt and the Native Americans. The children love working together to make the Monster Hill that devoured animals on the American prairies. They enjoy joining hands in a circle to make the whirlpool that swallowed ships in ancient Greece, and forming a chain to make the labyrinth which hid the deadly Minotaur.
Acting out legends can be done anywhere and in any space. It does not have to involve costumes or props, just lots of imagination.
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