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Three Little Pigs Activities for Kindergarten

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!

The Three Little Pigs Activities for Kindergarten

Three Little Pigs Activities for Kindergarten

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! 

Story Elements Book

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. 

Cover page of a story elements book

Students can record the characters, setting, and sequence of events. 

Character page of a story elements book
Setting page of a story elements book
Sequencing page of a story elements book

Then they can answer comprehension questions from the story with fun, hands-on activities.

Straw house page of a story elements book
Stick house page of a story elements book
Brick house page of a story elements book
Lift the flap page of a story elements book

Three Little Pigs Story Retelling

You can also add some hands-on fun to story retelling with this interactive printable book. 

Page from a retelling book
Straw house page of a retelling book
Brick house page of a retelling 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!

Three Little Pigs Class Book

Students can also work together to create a book that will stay in the classroom library. 

The Big Bad Wolf Can't Blow Down Our Houses! class book cover

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. 

Picture of a house made of apples
A house made of pencils

There are two different options for the pages, depending on which works best for your students.

CVC Word Building

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.

A CVC word building mat with images of the three little pigs

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!

Big Bad Wolf Game

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!  

Sight word card game with pig 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.

House Craft and Writing

Your students can also create their own writing craftivity to show what they would use to make a wolf-proof house. 

Interior of a writing craftivity about creating a house from candy

This craft provides great fine motor practice as students complete the writing prompt, then decorate and assemble the house craft.

Who Do You Believe? Writing Activity

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.  

Who Do You Believe writing craftivity
A writing craft for believing the three little pigs
Writing craftivity about believing the wolf

Students can write about who they believe and why, then create this fun lift-the-flap craft to go illustrate their writing.

Graphing Practice

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.  

Who do you believe graph

Students can then complete their own graphing worksheet to record and interpret the results of the class vote.

Math Mini-Reader

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!

One page of a math reader with three pigs and one wolf
Writing an addition equation on a math mini reader page

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.

2D Shape Pig Craft and Graphing Activity

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. 

A pig craft made from 2D shapes

Students can color in this graphing worksheet and then practice interpreting data. These pig crafts look adorable on a bulletin board!

Kindergarten Three Little Pigs Unit 

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.

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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!

3 Little Pigs Activities for Kindergarten