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One of my favorite stories to read in kindergarten is the “Three Little Pigs”. This engaging story is always a favorite with students! The best part is that it can be used to add a bit of fairy tale fun to math and literacy practice in your classroom. In this post, I’m going to share my favorite Three Little Pigs activities for kindergarten. You can use these hands-on learning activities to put together your own thematic unit!
These activities are the perfect hands-on supplement your literacy and math curriculum. You can incorporate these fun Three Little Pigs activities into your center rotations, morning work time, whole-group instruction, or small group practice. You could even use some of these activities for early finishers!
After reading and re-reading “The Three Little Pigs” together as a class, you can work with your students to identify the different story elements.
Students can record the characters, setting, and sequence of events.
Then they can answer comprehension questions from the story with fun, hands-on activities.
You can also add some hands-on fun to story retelling with this interactive printable book.
Students can complete the sentence frames on each page and customize illustrations for each story event. They are always so excited to take these books home to show their families!
Students can also work together to create a book that will stay in the classroom library.
They can each create a page to show what material they would use to build a house that the Big Bad Wolf can’t blow down.
There are two different options for the pages, depending on which works best for your students.
The three little pigs make an adorable word-building mat! Students can put one letter on each pig to create a variety of CVC words.
As you say each three-letter CVC word out loud to the class, students will use the letter tiles to recreate the word they hear. This is also a great activity for small-group literacy practice!
Now it’s the students’ turn to avoid the Big Bad Wolf! Add a variety of pig-themed sight word cards, alphabet cards, or number cards to a bag or basket. Then mix in some wolf cards!
Students take turns choosing a card from the bag. If they can identify what is on the pig card, they can keep it. If they can’t, they put it back in the bag. If they pull out a Big Bad Wolf card, they have to put all of their cards back in the bag. This is a great open-ended activity for literacy centers, morning tubs, or fast finishers.
Your students can also create their own writing craftivity to show what they would use to make a wolf-proof house.
This craft provides great fine motor practice as students complete the writing prompt, then decorate and assemble the house craft.
One of my favorite reasons to use fairy tales for kindergarten thematic units is that we can read multiple versions of the story. Fractured fairy tales are always a hit, since students can listen to the story from another perspective. After reading “The True Story of the Three Little Pigs” by Jon Scieszka, students can decide whether they believe the wolf or the pigs.
Students can write about who they believe and why, then create this fun lift-the-flap craft to go illustrate their writing.
Another fun activity to do after reading about the wolf’s perspective of the events is to create a class graph with their votes. After each student has a chance to decide if they believe the wolf or pig, you can discuss the results as a class.
Students can then complete their own graphing worksheet to record and interpret the results of the class vote.
Three pigs plus one wolf equals four characters in this fairy tale! Students can continue to explore combinations of four with this fun mini-reader. Students will count characters and houses on each page and record the numbers. This is great number formation practice!
If you use this activity later in the year, there is an option that includes space for students to write an addition equation. This is a fun way for students to visualize the different number combinations that make four.
Combine two-dimensional shape practice, graphing and fine motor practice with one fun craftivity! Students can assemble their own little pig craft and then record the different 2D shapes that they used to create it.
Students can color in this graphing worksheet and then practice interpreting data. These pig crafts look adorable on a bulletin board!
I have put together a resource with a variety of Three Little Pigs activities that you can use to put together a fun mini-unit. These hands-on and engaging activities can help your students practice literacy and math skills with a fun fairy tale twist! I have also put together a unit-at-a-glance PDF with a suggested sequence for the activities. This makes it easier for you to plan your own Three Little Pigs kindergarten unit!
If you’d like to take a closer look at everything included in this resource, you can find it in the A Spoonful of Learning shop or on TPT.
I hope this post has given you some inspiration for ways you can have some fun with fairy tales in your classroom. Be sure to add the pin below to your favorite teaching board on Pinterest! You’ll be able to quickly find these Three Little Pigs activities when you’re ready to plan your own fairy tale unit study. If you enjoy centering your kindergarten unit studies around fairy tales, you should definitely check out my Jack and the Beanstalk or Little Red Riding Hood activities for kindergarten!
These alphabet books will have students dive deep into learning about each letter of the alphabet while eager to see what activity they get to complete next!
