Below you will find stories, songs, activities, and lesson plans that go with the story, “The Three Little Pigs.” These complement your On My Way to Kindergarten activity book and help practice skills to master before kindergarten. They work great for one child, a small group, or an entire classroom!
Try the Molina 1-1-1: choose 1 story, 1 song, and 1 activity. This will give little ones lots of opportunities to practice skills while learning. You can stick with Three Little Pigs for a few days, or try some of our other activity areas like Alphabet, Bodies and Senses or Colors and Shapes.
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Stories
The best stories are those that you share together.
- Read a book. Sit together, hold the book, introduce the title and author, and turn the pages.
- Tell a story. Make up a story, talk about your day, or tell a family story.
- Visit the library. You can borrow books, for free, from your local library – or you can read a story there. Many libraries have a free activity called “storyhour” where librarians read stories to young children. Some storyhours also have songs or crafts. Ask the librarian about storyhours at your library.
We found a few stories about bodies and senses that you can watch together. Pause the story and look at the pictures. Ask questions about the stories or pause when a question is asked in the story – that is how little minds learn! Try questions like: What is this? Who is that? What do you think happens next? What did we just learn?
The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs (8:20 minutes)
PARA LEER EL CUENTO PINCHA AQUÍ TAMBIÉN SE PUEDE IMPRIMIR
The Three Little Wolves and the Big Bad Pig (9:38 minutes)
LOS TRES CERDITOS, CUENTOS INFANTILES, Cuentos y Canciones Infantiles
The Three Little Fish and the Big Bad Shark (2:40 minutes)
Los Tres Cerditos (5:09 minutes)
Songs
Singing songs can help teach new ideas to little minds. Make up your own songs or try some of these to learn more about the Three Little Pigs story. Listen to songs over and over again – and sing along with children. For faster songs it can help to pause the song and review the words with your little one. Making up dances and hand motions makes songs even more fun!
The Three Little Pigs Song
Cri Cri los 3 Cochinitos
Playlist
Stuck in a car for a while? Sitting in the waiting room? Waiting at the bus stop? We have built a playlist on YouTube with songs and stories all about the Three Little Pigs story.
Games and Activities
Children learn by doing. Here are activities you can do together to help. Simple steps like stirring, cutting, pasting, gluing, and tracing are important – even if an adult can do them faster, it is more important that children practice these skills.
Three Little Pig Treats
Make delicious pig-themed snacks to bring the tale to life! Little hands can help prepare the recipes – following instructions, using utensils, and understanding how meals are made make these fun treats educational too!
Pig Pancakes
Make your favorite pancake recipe. Then decorate your pancakes to look like pigs. Try:
- Strawberry cream cheese for the skin
- Blueberries for eyes
- Strawberry slices for ears
- Bananas for the snout
- 1 piece of red licorice or Red Vines for the mouth
(You can also do this with bagels!)
Three Little Pig Trail Mix.
Mix together:
- 1 cup potato sticks/vegetable straws (for the house made out of straw)
- 1 cup of pretzel sticks (for the house made out of sticks)
- 1 cup of chocolate chunks or raisins (for the house made out of bricks)
Serve as a snack while you’re reading the story.
Pig Pizzas.
A pig-shaped pizza makes a great lunch treat.
You’ll need:
- English muffin
- Spaghetti sauce
- Shredded cheese (any kind will do great!)
- Your favorite toppings: Canadian bacon, olives, pepperoni, green pepper, pineapple, onions, etc.
- Spread spaghetti sauce on an English muffin.
- Sprinkle shredded cheese on top of the sauce.
- Decorate to look like a pig. Try:
- Triangle shaped ears (try: Canadian bacon, pepperoni, or pineapple)
- Circle eyes (try: black olive slices)
- Circle snout (try: pepperoni)
- Mouth (try: slices of peppers, onions)
- Bake in an oven until the cheese is melted.
Practiquen el Narrar Una Historia
Aprendiendo a contar una historia al ver un objeto:
- Coloque varios objetos dentro de una caja; pueden ser una manzana, un carrito, un tren de juguete o cualquier otra cosa divertida.
- Forme grupos de niños y reparta a cada uno 4 o 5 objetos de la caja.
- Luego, pídales que inventen una historia a partir de esos objetos y que la cuenten frente a sus compañeros.
Con esta actividad los niños pondrán a volar su imaginación, creatividad, además de que pondrán a prueba su capacidad de narración.
Become a Little Pig House Inspector
Explore why the brick house was so much stronger than the other two in the story with this science demonstration/experiment.
Materials:
- One empty tissue box
- Glue and tape
- Scissors
- 2 different “building blocks” of different weights. For example:
- Lettuce, cut into thin strips (to represent the straw house)
- Uncooked spaghetti (to represent the stick house)
- Thick pretzel sticks (to represent the brick house)
- 10 coins, all the same (could be any coins)
- Remove any plastic from the hole in your tissue box.
- Lay out the three different “building blocks” on the table next to the tissue box. Use your imagination to picture the lettuce as straw, the uncooked spaghetti as the sticks, and the pretzel sticks as the bricks. Guess which material might hold up the best to the Wolf’s huffing and puffing!
- Build one “level” of your straw house by placing many lettuce strips over the same hole. Add the coins, one at a time, until they fall into the hole. Count how many coins the lettuce was able to hold. Are you surprised?
- Next, build your stick house by placing many uncooked spaghetti noodles over the same hole. Add the coins, one at a time, until they fall into the hold. Count how many coins the spaghetti was able to hold. Are you surprised?
- Then, try your brick house, repeating the process with thick pretzel sticks. How many coins could your brick house hold?
- You can continue with several different foods, or materials, from around your house to see what else the pigs could have used to build their houses. It’s fun to guess how many coins each material will hold before you build it.
Paper Bag Pigs
Make cute pig puppets out of paper bags! Use the story as inspiration to help decorate the pigs.
Materials:
- Construction paper (pink, and a variety of other colors)
- Glue, tape
- Paper bags (lunch-size work great)
- Pipe cleaners, yarn or twisty-ties
- Scissors
- Crayons, markers, paints
- Create a pig body by turning the bag pink. You can color, paint or glue pink paper to the bag.
- Fold the bag flat so that the bottom is facing you and can be the face for the puppet. (The opening of the bag is now the bottom, and the base of the bag is now the top.)
- Decorate your paper bag pig! Try:
- Ears: Cut out and decorate 2 triangles for ears, and glue them to the top of the bag, above the face.
- Snout: Cut out and decorate 1 circle and glue in the middle of the bag.
- Eyes Cut out 2 white circles and 2 smaller black circles. Glue the black circles in the white circles, and then glue them to the bag, above the snout, for the eyes.
- Mouth: You can draw a mouth or use yarn or cut paper for one.
- Arms: Cut out and decorate 2 ovals and glue them to the sides of the bag.
- Tail: Try taping a piper cleaner to the back for a tail. Be sure to spiral it up, just like a pig’s tail.
You can even make clothes for your pig. Or add hair with yarn, or markers. Use your imagination!
Try acting out the story with your new puppets!
A Pig on an Adventure
You’ll need:
- 3 circular objects of different sizes (e.g. a glass, a bowl, and a large plate)
- White paper
- Construction Paper
- Glue Sticks
- Crayons
- Googly eyes (optional, by super fun!)
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- Trace your three different sized objects that make circles onto white paper. (If you can get more than one circle on your paper, that’s great!)
- Cut out your circles.
- Decide what color your pig will be. Color your three circles that color.
- Choose a background color. Choose 1 piece of that colored paper.
- Glue the biggest circle onto the middle of your background. This will be the pig’s body.
- Glue the middle-sized circle in the center of the big circle. This will be your pig’s face.
- Glue the smallest circle in the center of the middle circle. This will be your pig’s snout. Draw two small circles in the middle of the nose for the pig’s nostrils.
- On the middle-sized circle: put two eyes above the snout and draw a mouth below the snout.
- Add pig ears, pig feet, and a curly pig tail.
- Where is your pig? Decorate the background. Tell your own pig story!
Build a House
Create houses, just like the Three Little Pigs. Build your house, very carefully, just like the pigs did!
Materials:
- Empty pint or quart milk or orange juice carton for each house you’re looking to build
- Brown paper (construction paper or paper bags work great)
- Glue
- Marker
- Scissors
- Different materials to decorate the houses.
- From Nature: grass, twigs, pebbles/mud
- From the Art Supplies: yarn, paper, popsicle sticks, dry sponge pieces, cardboard, construction paper
- Make sure the adult does this step: Cut the empty milk/orange juice carton to separate the square base from the pointed top. The bottom will be the house, and the pointed top will become your roof
- Cover the house (bottom half of the carton) in brown paper (you can use brown paper bags for this). Use glue as cement.
- Cover the roof in brown paper too, but use more than needed to make the edges of the roof stick out over the house.
- Draw a door and windows on the house with a marker.
- Then, choose the siding materials for the special house you’re building. Try:
- Straw House: pieces of yarn, strips of paper, grass
- Stick House: popsicle sticks, small twigs
- Brick House: dry sponge pieces, square pieces of construction paper or cardboard, small stones
- Build an entire pig village and act out the story!