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Pig Theme
Books
Search
for Pig Books at Amazon.com
Spots Feathers and Curly Tails by Nancy Tafuri
(This book ask six questions for different farm animals and one
question
of where they all live.)
Activities: Have the child guess what animal the question
describes.
Sing "Old Macdonald Had A Farm" using the last two pages in the
book
or other pictures. (You can use laminated pictures with
sticky
tape and interfacing on the back of the pictures and have the child
place
each picture on the flannel board as the child mentions the animal
he/she
wants to sing about.)
If You Give A Pig A
Pancake by Laura Joffe Numeroff
The Sleeping Pig by Carmen Tafolla and Jan Seale (Houghton
Mifflin Co.)
Other Links
Online Story:
Pigs
Aplenty,
Pigs Galore! @ Between the Lions Needs to be read to
non-readers.
Print-Out
Puppets @ eduplace Puppets to go with the book.
Cooking, Math, and Art
Pig Cookies
Make sugar
cookies
or dairy-free
sugar cookies. (Use a 3" round cookie cutter for the head and a 1
1/2" lid cap (juice, pop, etc.) for the nose.) The smaller
cookies will
take less time so watch to see if they are done. Cool the
cookies.
Frost
the
larger cookie with pink frosting. Place the smaller cookie on the
bottom
of the frosted cookie. Add raisins, chocolate chips, or candies for the
eyes
and nostrils.
Snack
PreschoolEducation.com:
Farm Animal Snacks - "Pig Slop" or "Pink Pig- Sicles"
Games
Pin the Tail on the Pig
This is another way to do "Pin the Tail on the Donkey". Make a
large pig out of pig paper. For the tail, use pink ribbon and pin
the tail on the pig using a push pin.
Music
Preschool
Education: Farm Music & Songs and other ideas
Stories
Cedric,
The Pig Children's Stories @ Electric Scotland
Pig Nursery Rhymes (including math)
Three Little Pigs (Went to Market)
NiteOwl - Three Little
Pigs Coloring Page
Preschool and Early Elementary:
Say the rhyme. Have the children learn it. Point out that
"none" is another way to say "0" or "zero". Practice writing "0"
and/or
"zero".
This Little Piggy
This little piggy went to market.
This little piggy stayed home.
This little piggy had roast beef.
And this little piggy had none.
For babies, say this rhyme as you move each toe.
Enchanted
Learning - This Little Piggy
This Little Pig
Coloring Pages @ NiteOwl You can use these pictures for a flannel
board story. (Just print out color, laminate, and place on the
flannel board.)
Ten
Little Pigs Felt Story
Use Pig 1
or Pig 2
(reduce the size of the pigs) and Farmer
(or a larger version: Farmer
@ First-school) or Smiling
Farmer @ Whillock (reduce the size of this or keep the pigs
larger). Make a large mud pile (I think
that's
the name of it) out of brown felt or construction paper (laminate).
Color
the farmer and color the pigs pink. Laminate. Put tape on
the
back of the mud, farmer, and pigs. (You can glue a piece of emery
board
or sand paper.) Tell the story using a large flannel board,
cardboard, etc.
Arts & Crafts
Muddy Pig Craft
Print a pig onto pink construction paper.
Have the child cut it out.
Using paint brushes or hands, fingers, etc., use one
of the following ways:
For younger children, place some chocolate
pudding in a small bowl and have the child use it as mud.
Have
the child mix some white and brown kids paint together (or you can use
real
mud).
Pig Craft
Choose a pig coloring page and paint it pink.
Use pink playdough.
Make a round ball. Make two eye sockets using your fingers
(on the top part of the ball). Make a small circle for the snout.
Make small ears. Place them on the top of the head.
Use a plastic
fork, craft stick, or other small object to make two nostils.
Place wiggly eyes, beads, playdough,
etc. in the eyes socket for the eyes.
Let dry (if you like).
Coloring Pages for Crafts
First-school
Pig Coloring Page
Piglet Coloring
Page @ Pot Belly Piglets
Crafts
DLTK's
- 2 Pig Animal Crafts
Jo-Anns Fabrics &
Crafts Search for Felt
Finger Puppets and Pink Pig
or pig.
Preschool
Education: Farm Animals - Arts & Crafts
Printables & Puppets
2002
TRC Manual Clip Art - Texas State Library Pig puppet.
abcteach: Pig
Dot-to-dot by Fives 5's
AFUNK: Pig Coloring Book
Animal
Clip Arts: Pig Clipart @ animalpicturesarchive 3 Coloring pages
Animal Coloring
Pages
Children Pig
Coloring Pages @ Pot Belly Piglets
Children
Pig Games: Mixed Up Words
eduplace
- Pig Shape Book with and without lines
Explor.com - Pig
and Piglets Coloring Page
FamilyEducation.com:
Printables This Little Piggie Went to Market: Shapes & Flowers
First-school:
Pig Theme Preschool Activities and Crafts (Alphabet, craft, and
coloring
page.)
Harper
Children's
- If You Give A Pig A Pancake Activities: maze and word scramble
Kids Crafts:
Pig Finger Puppet
Penn State Beaver
Campus Children's Theatre Finish the pig face.
Pig a-t Dot-to-Dot
(muddy)
Other Links
about.com:
Celebrate National Pig Day in March (1st)
TLC Sample Lesson (pig)
Story Bags
The Three Little Pigs Story
Ideas
You can put some of these in to a
story bag or box.
1. Books:
Three
Little Pig Books @ Amazon.com
The Three Little Pigs by various authors and for beginner
readers, check out the one by Betty Miles.
The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs by Jon Scieszka
2. Story Sequencing: e-tip
language arts matrix Go down to "Make a mini book" (What is the
order?)
3. Online Stories
BBC
- The Three Little Pigs
The
Three Little Pigs on the Web Needs to be read to younger children.
4. Felt
Board
Story: Three Little Pigs @ Preschoolprintables
5. Dramatic Play: Have the children act the story out. Have the
child be the pig
or the wolf or both. Have the child say, as the wolf "I'm going to huff
and puff and blow your house in”. Have them pretend they are blowing
the pigs house down as a pig, "Not by the hair of my chiny chin chin".
Repeat three times. At the last house, the wolf tried and tried (act
out blowing the
house down/in) and finally he gave in and the house stayed standing.
6. Puppets: Place the wolf from Torah Tots Alef Bet
Wolf Coloring Page on a craft stick. Paper
Bag Wolf Puppet @ DLTK
Pig Paper Bag Puppet
Use a small paper bag. Cut a pink piece of construction paper (or
white and color it pink) to be about 9x5" (or the size of the
bag). Glue it on the bottom part of the paper bag. Cut a
piece to be 3x5".
Glue it on the top part of the paper bag. Make a snout to be
about
1 1/4". Color two nostrils on it and glue onto the bottom part of the
flap.
Make two eyes and color pupils on them. Glue above the
snout.
Make a red tongue and glue it underneath the flap. Make two ears,
two smaller front legs (with smaller feet), two back legs, and a curly
tail.
Glue them onto the pig where they should go. (Note: You can use
the ears, legs and tail patterns from Danielle's Place for this
puppet.
I thought the snout and eyes were too large.)
Other Pig Puppets: Pig Puppet @
Danielle's Place, First-School - Pig
Paper Bag Puppet, and Puppet
Pals: Pig Hand Puppet
7. Small Motor Skills: Play with legos, blocks, sticks, craft
sticks, different sized
boxes, or anything you can build a house.
8. Home Economics & Small Motor Skills:
- Recipe cards for: sugar
cookies
or dairy-free
sugar cookies and for frosting.
Make Pig
Cookies.
- Build a log cabin out of pretzel (for the whole family or
class).
Eat it after you are done building your house.
-Use graham crackers and use frosting
to build a house. Use different things to decorate the house.
9. Online
pig activities
10. Pig a-t
Dot-to-Dot (muddy)
11. Eating
the Basic Way: Feeding Alfonzo, Bernie and Fernando Another version
of
The Three Pigs including graphic
resources to go with the story.
12. Coloring Pages: Pig
Coloring
Pages: The Three Little Pigs and Wolf Chases Pigs @ First-school
Related Links:
Preschool
Zone Teaching Ideas: The Three Little Pigs
The
Three Little Pigs Grade K/1 Language Arts
Babe Story Bag
1. Videos/DVD's of "Babe" or "Babe in The City"
2. Books: A Day With Babe or any other book about "Babe".
3. Pig
Paper Bag Puppet
4. Muddy
Pig Craft
5. Recipe Cards for: sugar
cookies
or dairy-free
sugar cookies and for frosting.
Make Pig
Cookies.
6. Sing Old MacDonald Had A Farm. Use the animal patterns in the
this story bag or The
Little Red Hen Story Bag . For larger pictures, use the
resources found at Old
MacDonald Had A Farm or any other coloring page located at Farm Theme.
7. Online
pig activities
8. Any more ideas listed on this page.
Charlotte's
Web Story Bag
Book
DVD
1. Book: Charlotte's Web by E.B. White
2. Videos/DVD's of Charlotte's Web (You can just use this for
younger
children.)
3. A
Guide
to Charlotte's Web in the Classroom @ TCM
It has a sample page (in pdf). The pig patterns (small and large
of
Wilbur), Templeton (the rat), and Fern are used as stick puppets.
There
also is a web.
Retell the story using the puppets. For younger children, they
can just color them after watching the movie and tell their own story
using
the puppets.
4. Any of the below activities.
abctech.com:
Charlotte's Web by E. B. White Shape book of Wilbur and lots of
other
printables.
Charlotte's Web
From a second grade classroom. Which include: ABC's of
Charlotte's Web, Chapter Summaries, Mystery Quotes Quiz, Trivia
Crossword Puzzles, Links to other Charlotte's Web Sites, and other
teacher resources.
Charlotte's
Web Word Search
Eduplace
Charlotte's Web
Family
Education.com: Charlotte's Web Activities
Here are some of the ideas I like at the above link.
Piggy
Bank
Make
a
Sweet Spurting Spider
What do
you know about Charlotte's Web? (Online quiz)
Teacher
Net: Charlotte's Web
Teacher
Vision: Charlotte's Web
Templeton
Rat Math and other resources
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