The Three Little Pigs - Storytime Craft

What's one more "bad guy" added to the list?  We already spend our mornings, days, and nights running from monsters, witches, spiders, snakes, bears, crocodiles, evil trees, bees, that sneaky fox Swiper, and now... ((drumroll))...
The Big...
           BAD....
                W-O-L-F!!

Wolves are scary.  Wolves are BAD!!  Yes, this is the point Addison has made for weeks now.  We have read "The Three Little Pigs" over and over, and she is obsessed with that destructive wolf!  The bigger and badder an evil character is, the more she likes a story... and we can't deny that the Big Bad Wolf is pretty darn bad!  We have spent the past few weeks acting out "The Three Little Pigs", but of course Addy put her own twist on the story.  Instead of blowing down houses, she pretends to blow down babies.  Yes, babies.  She instructs me to lay down and pretend to be a sleeping baby.  Once I am snoring loudly, she Huffs... Puffs... and blows me (the baby) over!  Oh and I must not forget, at this point I am supposed to cry, loud.

Now I don't know why this game turned into blowing over babies.  Think it could have something to do with her innocent, three month old brother sleeping in the other room?? 

Guess we'll never know...

One morning, after Addy finished huffing, puffing, and blowing down her baby dolls, she sweetly turned to me and asked, "Mommy pleeeassee can we do a craft today?!?"  In this moment I snapped a picture..

So my wheels got turning and I came up with a storybook craft!  Here's the idea -- while reading "The Three Little Pigs", we would together build a house of straw, sticks and bricks.  Then Addy would be able to use her expert huffing and puffing skills and blow each one down, just as the Big Bad Wolf does in the story!  Perfect! 

The Three Little Pigs - Storybook Craft!

Materials:

- 3 brown lunch bags

- 1 sheet of red construction paper

- handful of straw

- small sticks (if weather permits, let your child collect these themselves!)

- school glue

- scissors

- 6 craft sticks

 

 

The Prep:

- Cut each brown bag about 5 inches from the bottom.

- Cut a door into the front of each house (see in picture above).

Now you will need to make the houses stable.

- Set aside two craft sticks for each house.

- Break one craft stick in half and glue to inner side wall of house.

- Glue the other half of the craft stick to the other inner wall.

- Glue the second full craft stick to the back.

(You can use additional craft sticks to make the front stronger, but it's not necessary.)

- Repeat for all three houses.

- Cut red construction paper into 1 inch x 1/2 inch rectangles.  These will be the bricks.

- Have your straw, sticks and glue ready.

 

 

The Storytime Craft:

- Read aloud "The Three Little Pigs" story.

- As each pig builds their house, have your child build their houses as well.  Just drizzle the glue on top of the house and cover with the building materials.  To really hold the straw and stocks in place, I drizzled more glue on top after we finished the book.

- Continue reading the story, and as the Big Bad Wolf blows down each house have your child blow the houses down!

We had a lot of fun with these houses!  Addy still uses them to play with... and we even made cut out pigs and a wolf so she can act out the scenes.  I just drew each one and had her color them with a marker (nothing fancy).

Enjoy!