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 Provide the children with straw, sticks and bricks to pass  Scribe stories for the children as they retell ‘The  Provide large-scale construction materials (such as
around a circle. Encourage the children to describe the Three Little Pigs’. Share their stories with the rest of boxes, planks, crates and fabric) for children to
objects and explore new vocabulary. Children could then the class at story time to show you value their build their own houses. Can they work together to
try writing these new words down to display in the setting. work. build a house? Use this opportunity to observe the
 Encourage the children to bring in photographs of their  Set up a stage area with these Three Little Pigs children engaging in back and forth conversations
own house. Can they talk about the features of their Songs and Rhymes for children to sing. Encourage while they plan and build their house.
house? You might like to introduce vocabulary, such as the children to make their own songs and rhymes  Create a lair for the Big Bad Wolf. Children can help
detached, semi-detached and bungalow. up using phrases from the story. you create this and use their knowledge of the story
 Ask the children to look at pictures of buildings from  Create a non-fiction reading area. Display these to help you decide what to put in it. Can they then
your local area. Can they tell you one thing they have Houses and Homes Display Pictures, models of pretend to be the Big Bad Wolf using a big, bad
noticed using a clear, well-formed sentence? You might houses the children have created and books about voice?
like to give children the beginning of a sentence, such as houses and famous buildings.  Decorate a chair with the children. This then
‘I can see...’.  Place these Three Little Pigs Story Spoons in your becomes a special storytelling chair for the children
 Give the children a silly scenario using the characters sand area. Can the children use them to retell the to retell the story to each other.
from the story. For example, ‘Imagine the Big Bad Wolf story and imagine the conversations the characters  Stick these Three Little Pigs Small World
was driving a bus. Why do you think he would do that?’ might have with each other? Characters to blocks then put them in your sand
Can the children give you answers using words such as  Provide the children with some building materials, tray. Encourage the children to use story language
‘because’ to elaborate? such as blocks, fabric and cardboard boxes. Can to act out the story using the figures.
 Once the children are familiar with the story, retell it in the children talk about the house they would like to  Draw pictures from the story in chalk on the ground
your own words. Make mistakes on purpose, such as build? Can they use clear, well-formed sentences to outside. Encourage the children to walk around the
‘The Small Bad Wolf came along’ or ‘He puffed and explain how they will build it? outdoor area, describing the pictures or words they
huffed’. Can the children correct your mistakes using  Set up a small world area based on traditional see. Can they add to the drawings?
their knowledge of the story? tales. You might like to include a forest with small
 Promote story times throughout the day. You might like world pigs, bears and a wolf. The children could
to have special blankets for children to share, chairs to make houses and retell the stories they know. You
sit on or invite the children to retell the story to the rest could ask questions, such as ‘I wonder what would
of the class. happen if the Big Bad Wolf met Goldilocks? What
 Encourage the children to join in when you read the would they say?’
story. Can they use a Big Bad Wolf voice? Map Activity for children to complete. Can they use
 Create a vocabulary book with the children. Write down their map to help them retell the story?
unfamiliar words the children encounter during the topic,
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 Pass a toy pig (or similar object) around the circle.  Encourage the children to work together in teams to  Provide these Three Little Pigs Role-Play Masks
When a child is holding the object, it is their turn to build houses in the block/construction area. Use the for the children to act out the story in groups of
speak. Can the children say what kind of home they opportunity to talk about building a strong house four. Can the children organise themselves into
would like to live in? Encourage them to use their like the third pig. Can the children share their ideas groups of four and decide who plays which part?
imagination – they could live in a fairy castle, a rocket about how they can make their house really strong?  Encourage the children to set a trap to catch the
ship, a house with its own football pitch!  Provide a camera or mirror and these Three Little wolf outside. Can they listen to each other’s ideas
 Discuss the character of the Big Bad Wolf. What was Pigs Story Sequencing Cards. Encourage the and decide which plan would be the best? You
his behaviour like? Why? Are there any other reasons children to choose a picture and make a face to might like to encourage them to draw their plan on
why he might be trying to blow the little pigs’ houses show how the characters were feeling during that the ground with chalk first, then revisit their drawing
down? Can the children think of any other stories with part of the story. at the end of the session and ask if they made any
wolves in? Are they good or bad wolves? Does this  Talk about how the feelings of the characters changes to their plan and why.
mean all wolves are bad? change throughout the story. Were the pigs happy  Place three soft toy pigs on one side of your
 Talk to the children about their own homes. What at the beginning, middle and end? Did the way they outdoor area. Set up an obstacle course for the
makes them special? Do they have things in their home were feeling change? Did all of the pigs feel the children to cross to get to the pigs. Explain that
that are special to them? Do they have things in their same way all of the time? they can only rescue the pigs as a group, so they
home that tell us what they like, such as themed  Provide sticks, straw and wooden blocks for the need to work together to complete the course. Can
bedding or special soft toys? children to recreate the houses from the story. How the children encourage each other, help where
 Build a house as a group using wooden blocks. Can the will they decide which child gets the different needed and are they comfortable asking their
children take turns to add bricks to a house? Can the materials? Is it fair if one child gets the straw and friends for help?
children encourage each other and express their one gets the blocks? How could they make it fair?  Hide pictures from the story, such as these Three
approval with others’ building skills? Can they show Suggest working together or taking turns with the Little Pigs Story Sequencing Cards. Encourage the
that they are resilient if the building falls down? materials. children to work together to find the pictures then
 Have three members of staff dress up as the three little  Provide wooden blocks in the playdough area for bring them together to order them. Can they work
pigs. Encourage children to ask the pigs questions the children to have a go at building. Can they stick as a team to sequence the story?
about how they felt during different parts of the story. bricks together using playdough? Allow the children
Can they tell the children how they felt when the wolf to access this freely throughout the week so that
blew their houses down? Did they feel like giving up? they can practise and improve upon their skills.
 During circle time, discuss the pigs running away to the
brick house. Why did they do that? Would it have been
safe to try and build their houses again? Should we
always run to our friends when something goes wrong,
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 If you have a woodwork table in your setting,  Provide copies of this Three Little Pigs Fine Motor  Play a parachute game outside. One of the children
encourage the children to use tools to build their Skills Story and place in a large activity tray. You will be the wolf and go under the parachute. The
own house. Can they use the tools safely and with could cover the pictures with fine sand or eco- rest of the children sit with their legs under the
precision? friendly glitter and provide paintbrushes for the parachute and shake it to hide the wolf. The wolf
 Retell the story with the children and encourage children to trace over the patterns on the story can move around, pulling children under the
them to experiment with different ways of moving cards. parachute to become wolves with him. You might
during each part of the story. Can they think of an  Provide this Three Little Pigs Cutting Skills Activity like to ask three children to be pigs, who will patrol
action for each character to help them to retell the for children to practise using scissors. Can they cut the outside of the circle and save anyone being
story? You might like to include pictures of these out the different clothing for the pigs? You might pulled under the parachute!
actions on your story map. like to print this resource on paper and card for  Ask the children to think of actions to represent
 Place lolly sticks, twigs, straw and small wooden differentiation. each house in the story. Can they move around the
blocks in your sand tray. Can the children use the  Provide the children with pink balloons to play with. outdoor area in a variety of ways, stopping when
materials to build houses for small world pigs? Draw pig faces on the balloons and see if the you call out bricks, straw or sticks? Can they hold
 Practise retelling the story using large, indoor PE children can keep their balloon off the floor by using their house pose to match the word you call out?
equipment. You might like to describe the route one different parts of their body.  Provide a range of building and construction
of the pigs took to escape from the wolf, including  Enhance your playdough area with these Three equipment for the children and explain that it needs
a bridge made from a bench, a tunnel using a pop- Little Pigs Playdough Mats. You might like to transporting to a different part of the outdoor area.
up tunnel and some puddles to jump through using include pink playdough, pink pipe cleaners for curly Can they transport the equipment safely?
hoops on the floor. tail and googly eyes for the children to make their  If you have balance bikes, encourage the children to
 Play a listening game with a group of children. Call own pigs. move between two cones. Can they take small,
out actions such as ‘run from the wolf’, ‘build a  In a large activity tray, provide paper straws, pink scared pig steps? Can they return using big,
house’ and ‘blow the house down’. Can the children paint and some plastic pigs. Can the children powerful wolf steps? Which is faster?
put these actions together as a sequence and pretend to be the Big Bad Wolf and blow the pink  Stick these Three Little Pigs Story Stones onto
model their movements to the rest of the group? pigs and paint all around the tray? large stones and rocks. Hide them around your
 Create your own pig character using pink  Build a maze using large building bricks. Can the outdoor area for children to hunt for, then ask them
interlocking cubes. The children could then use children move the Three Little Pig Story Cut-Outs to bring them back and place them into hoops on
them in a three little pigs small world area. around the maze to their homes? the ground. Can they set up treasure hunts for their
 Have fun retelling the story using these Three Little friends too?
Pigs Finger Puppets. This challenge is great for
practising cutting skills and developing fine motor
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 Share lots of different versions of ‘The Three Little  You might like to place this Three Little Pigs Early  Place this Pigs in Mud Capital and Lower Case
Pigs’ story with the children. This will allow them to Writing Activity in your continuous provision to Letter Matching Game in a large activity tray. You
spot phrases used in each version and differences encourage children to write simple sentences might like to add mud and straw to the tray and
between each book. They can then use all of this independently. invite children to find the matching letters.
knowledge to retell the story in their own words.  Invite the children to retell the story of ‘The Three  Hide decodable and tricky words around your
 Using these Three Little Pigs Speech Bubble Posters, Little Pigs’ while you scribe what they say. You outdoor area. Ask the children to help the wolf find
discuss what each pig could be saying at different could invite them to write down initial sounds or the tricky words that are hidden. Can the children
points in the story. Can the children have a go at tricky words they know. Ask them to write their find them and bring only the tricky words back to
writing their own sentence inside the speech bubble? name on their work and create a class book of three the Big Bad Wolf?
 Explore rhyming words by looking at the words big little pig stories.  Encourage the children to think about building a
and bad. Can the children sound these words out?  These Three Little Pigs Sentence Building Cards house outside. Can they make a list of materials on
Can they think of words that would rhyme with big will help children to practise reading sentences as this Building Site Notepad? Provide clipboards,
and bad? Encourage them to use their phonic well as helping them to think of their own sentences hard hats and hi-vis vests for the children to wear
knowledge to write down a list of rhyming words. to write about the story. while they design.
 Write a group letter to the wolf, asking why he blew  Create a display of vocabulary children learnt from  On the ground outside, chalk an outline of a wolf
the houses down and asking if he is feeling sorry. the story. Challenge them to use the new words in and a pig. Encourage the children to fill the outlines
Some children may be able to write parts of the letter their play, making sure that you model this when with words to describe each character. You could
independently or write their own letter. playing alongside the children. scribe some words, encourage children to write
 In a large activity tray, create a pigsty using mud,  Encourage children to write short sentences and initial sounds or remind them to use their phonic
straw, water and some plastic pigs. Hide tricky word phrases using this Three Little Pigs Read it, Build it, knowledge to attempt to sound the words out.
cards in the pigsty for the children to find. They may Write it Activity. Children can read a simple  Set up a stage area where children can act out the
also like to mark make in the muddy mixture! sentence, use word cards to build the same story. Encourage them to use the story language
 Using their knowledge of other stories, can the sentence, then have a go at writing it themselves. they are familiar with and use phrases they have
children talk about what would happen if the  Place a large roll of paper on the floor with ‘Once been introduced to in the story.
characters from ‘The Three Little Pigs’ met characters upon a time’ at one end and ‘The end’ written at the  Go for a walk to collect sticks. Can the children
from another traditional tale? You might like to ask other. Can the children add pictures and words to have a go at writing with the sticks? You could
children to pick two characters from these Traditional retell the story in order? invite them to mark make in the mud or in the sand
Tale Cut-Outs and talk about what they might say to tray. You might even like to dip the sticks in pink
each other. paint and put out a large roll of paper for the
 Ask the children to draw and label a picture of a pig. children to write and draw on.
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 Explore size with this Three Little Pigs Size Ordering  Use this The Three Little Pigs Number Ordering 0-31  Chalk a large number track on the ground outside.
activity. Can the children sort the pictures into size order, as a self-registration display. Children can move a pig Can the children pretend to be pigs and jump along
make a collection of big pictures or small pictures? onto the blank sheet when they come into school. three spaces at a time? Where did they start? Which
Encourage them to find objects around the setting that Encourage the children to find the correct number so number did they land on?
are bigger or smaller than one of the cut-outs. that the pigs are in order. Alternatively, they could  Create natural repeating patterns outside by using
 Tell the children that the pigs in the story liked to collect place the numbered cut-outs onto a ten-frame. the materials the pigs use. Collect twigs and sticks,
objects in groups of three. Can they find a matching  Create pig shape pictures using a range of 2D pink and provide straw and blocks for the children to
group of three objects in the classroom? Can the paper shapes. Encourage the children to manipulate create their own repeating pattern. You might like
children get into groups of three and count how many and rotate the shapes so that they create a pigs face. to extend this further by encouraging children to
objects they have altogether? How many full groups of Can they tell you how they have created new shapes? make a pattern based on size, such as using long
three can they fit on a ten-frame?  Ask the children to collect all of the dominoes with and short sticks.
 Look at patterns the children can create using this Three three spots for the pigs. Are there any dominoes with  Explore counting and grouping with sticks you have
Little Pigs Repeating Pattern Activity. You might like to three spots in total? Encourage the children to subitise collected. Can the children create a bundle of ten
enlarge this activity when using it with a group then when sorting the dominoes. sticks? Encourage the children to make numbers
provide the A4 version for children to use independently  Use this Three Little Pigs Number Matching Activity beyond ten using the ten bundle and some sticks to
in continuous provision. for children to practise matching numerals and represent ones. Can they place the sticks on the
 Gather some collections of two, three, four and five quantity. ground and label the groups with chalk?
objects. Tell the children that the pigs like to keep  Share this Build a House Using Shapes Activity with  Chalk two large ten-frames onto the ground.
collections of three. Can they sort the groups into groups the children. You might like to go for a walk to have a Provide a dice for the children and pink chalk. When
of three, fewer than three or more than three? look at some of the houses in your local area first, each child rolls the dice, can they draw that many
 Build houses using building bricks or wooden blocks. take photographs of them and print them out for the pigs onto their ten-frame? The winner is the first
Who has used the most bricks to build their house? Can children to spot shapes. They can then have a go at child to get exactly ten pigs.
the children think of an easy way to find out who has building their own house using shapes.  Hide these Three Little Pigs Display Numbers
used the most?  Place paper straws, table tennis balls, pom-poms, around your outdoor area. You could use numbers
 Using three soft toy pigs, ask the children how to share a marbles and measuring equipment on a large roll of to ten or beyond, depending on the ability of the
bowl of sweets between the three pigs. Can they think of paper. Can the children use the straws to huff and puff children. Roll one or two dice and when the children
a fair way to share the sweets out? Are there different the objects, measuring how far they travel down the see the total, they have to go and find that number.
ways to share them? Are there any sweets left over? roll of paper? Encourage the children to record their
 Play a dice game to encourage children to match results on the roll of paper.
numerals and quantities. Children roll a dice, then take  Use uncooked spaghetti and marshmallows to build
traps for the wolf. Can the children make 3D shapes
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 Play this fun Traditional Tales Bingo game. Can the  Print photographs of special buildings in your local  Provide these Three Little Pigs Shadow Puppets
children spot characters from other traditional tales community and place them in your construction for the children to play with throughout the day. Can
that they are familiar with? Can the children say area for children to take inspiration from. Can they they say how the shadows change? Can they make
what makes the characters similar or different? recreate the buildings they see? You might like to a dark den and use torches to create their own
 Show the children a letter from the pigs’ mother, photograph the children’s work and display the shadows?
saying she is thinking about visiting one of her pictures alongside the original photographs.  Take the children outside to experience the
children. Can the children suggest which house to  Display these Homes Around the World Display different materials found in the story. Explore
visit and why? Photos around your junk-modelling area. Can the sticks, twigs, straw and bricks by holding each item
 Share these Building Site Display Photos with the children recreate these houses using recycled or safely walking on the materials as part of a
children. Can they tell you about the different materials? Can they describe what makes their barefoot walk.
occupations they see? Do they know anyone who model different to their own house?  On a large roll of paper, invite the children to draw a
has a job like this? Talk about the jobs these people  Encourage the children to think about designing a map of the world in which the story takes place.
do and what their work might include. house for all three pigs to live in together. What Can they describe where the houses were in
 Share this Three Little Pigs Cut and Stick Story would they like to include? Can they draw their relation to each other? Where would they draw the
Map Activity with the children. Can they retell the design on this Three Little Pigs Design Sheet then mother pig’s house? Can they find a good place for
story and discuss the location of different events in think about how to make their model? a house for the wolf? What might that look like and
the book?  Create a small world building site with vehicles, why?
 Talk about the different natural objects that would sand and wooden blocks. You might like to add  Use these Wood House, Brick House and Straw
be available to the pigs throughout the seasons. these Builder Stick Puppets for children to explore House cut-outs to create a map for the children to
Could they make a house using fallen leaves, the different occupations on a building site. retell the story. Encourage the children to move the
conkers, acorns or petals? Do they think they would  Place a large roll of paper on the floor. Invite the houses into the correct sequence then act the story
make good houses? You might like to create a children to draw a road to create a map. They could out.
collage of a house using natural objects you find build model houses and place them on the map.  Set up an investigation to explore ‘Is wet sand or
outside.  Provide paper cut into the shape of a house. dry sand best for building a house?’ Provide sand
 Look at an aerial view of the local area. Can the Encourage the children to draw the members of and water for the children to mix together
children spot three places where the pigs might their family inside the house, labelling them if themselves. Can they experiment with the ratio of
build their houses? Would they need to be close possible. water to sand and explore the different textures
together? Would the children like to live near one of they create?
the pigs?  Create a Builders Yard Role-Play Area for the
 Share this Houses and Homes PowerPoint with the children to explore building houses using a range of
children. Can they talk about what makes the materials.
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 Share the Three Little Pigs Story PowerPoint with the  Provide the children with opportunities to build  Create a stage area with pink fabric and
children. Encourage the children to draw pictures of the houses using building bricks, wooden blocks and instruments for the children to act out the story
characters from the story and use them as puppets to loose parts. Encourage them to keep their model with added sound effects. Ask the children to
act the story out. and revisit it to make changes. Can they improve perform to the rest of their class.
 Look at the patterns you see in buildings in your local the house they have built?  Ask the children if they would like to perform any of
area. Invite the children to make wax crayon rubbings  Create a collage of the three different houses built the songs or rhymes from the Three Little Pigs
of different buildings on your school grounds. by the pigs. Sticks, straw and bricks are great for Songs and Rhymes PowerPoints Pack. They can
 In a large space, invite the children to listen to some printing and would be a good opportunity to create choose to perform as part of a group or on their
songs from this Three Little Pigs Songs and Rhymes some collaborative art. own. Ask children to praise each other at the end of
PowerPoint Pack. Can the children move in response  Encourage children to experiment with paint mixing each performance.
to the music? Ask them to perform their movements to by sharing this Three Little Pigs Paint Mixing  Line a large activity tray with paper and provide
the rest of the group to give children a chance to watch Activity Pack. This includes a letter to the children shallow trays of watered-down paint. Invite the
and talk about the dances that have been created. asking them to mix pink paint to create pictures of children to blow the paint using paper straws.
 Invite the children to create movements in response to the pigs from the story. Encourage the children to talk about the different
the different characters in the story. Can they stomp  Place plastic pigs in brown paint for children to effects their huffing and puffing had on the paint.
and growl like the wolf? Encourage them to think of freely experiment with printing. Can they create  Place these Three Little Pigs Colouring Sheets in
movements to mirror the huff and puff of the wolf or different patterns by rotating the animals and your outdoor area on clipboards. Can the children
when the wolf runs away at the end of the story. looking at the different prints they create? use a range of media, such as crayons, pastels or
 Exploring the sounds of different instruments,  Provide these Three Little Pigs Role-Play Masks for paints to make their picture unique?
encourage the children to think about the sound the children to act out the story. Can they use the  Engage with the children when they are acting out
houses made when they fell down. Do they think all of storyline of ‘The Three Little Pigs’ in their play? You the story. Suggest that a new character could be in
the houses made crashing sounds? Ask the children to might like to provide large pieces of fabric or the story, such as Little Red Riding Hood. Could she
think about the sound of a straw house falling down. scarves for the children to make their own warn the pigs about the wolf? How might the story
Can they recreate that sound? costumes. change if that happened? Allow the children to
 Model how to make a shaker using dried rice, pasta or  Provide the children with a range of junk-modelling think of different characters to introduce into their
lentils inside a plastic pot. Can the children play their materials, such as tubes, boxes and paper, to create play.
instrument as you read the story, such as shaking them their own houses. Provide them with a range of  Using pink fabric, paper, ribbons and other pink
quickly when each pig runs to the next house, or very different materials for joining, such as sticky tape, objects, work together to create a large-scale pig
loudly when the wolf huffs and puffs? masking tape and glue. Can the children revisit their picture in your outdoor area. Encourage children to
 Working together, can the children create a poem about models once completed to refine them? listen to each other's ideas and refine their picture
the wolf to perform? Think about words to describe the as they work.
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 Provide a big cauldron for the children to pretend to fill, like the pigs  Encourage the children to print with straw, wooden blocks and  Provide a range of versions of ‘The Three Little Pigs’ story, as well
did in the story. How many jugs of water do they think it will hold? sticks to explore the different patterns they can create. as other traditional tales for children to compare.
 Experiment with sticks, straw and stones or bricks. Encourage the  Explore colour mixing with black and white to create different  Provide soft toy pigs and wolves for the children to read stories to.
children to investigate which of these materials will float and which shades of grey to paint wolves.  Include non-fiction books about building sites, houses, pigs and
will sink. wolves for the children to learn new vocabulary.
Small World Malleable Music
 Create a small world construction site using diggers, sticks, gravel  Make pink playdough with the children then invite them to make  Familiarise the children with the songs and rhymes in the Three
and sand. Can the children build a house for a plastic pig? model pigs. You could add googly eyes and pink pipe cleaner tails Little Pigs Songs and Rhymes PowerPoints Pack.
 Fill a large activity tray with bark, soil and other natural materials. for the children to use.  Create a stage area with pink fabric and instruments for the
Provide these Three Little Pig Story Cut-Outs for the children to act  Place these Three Little Pigs Playdough Mats in your dough area children to act out the story with added sound effects.
out the story. for children to use.  Set up a box of musical instruments, scarves and ribbons for the
 Encourage the children to create a small world home for the wolf.  Mix cornflour, water and pink food colouring in a large activity tray children to make up their own dances and songs to perform to the
for children to mark make in. rest of the class.
Investigation Role Play Construction
 Provide materials for children to build houses. Make sure that you  Provide these Three Little Pigs Role-Play Masks for the children to  Provide a range of building materials to encourage the children to
provide materials which make building trickier, such as feathers or act out the story. build their own houses. Can they build a house big enough for a
leaves.  Make these Three Little Pigs Story Spoons with the children, then soft toy to fit inside?
 Ask the children to investigate how far objects move when they place in your provision for them to use independently.  Create a Three Little Pigs Building Site Role-Play Area for the
blow them with a paper straw. Provide a range of objects, such as  Turn your home corner into Mummy Pig’s house. Display photos of children to use large construction materials (such as crates, boxes
tennis balls, table tennis balls, marbles and balls of tinfoil. her children and add pink accessories. and wooden blocks) to build houses.
Maths Mark Making/Fine Motor Gross Motor
 Share this Three Little Pigs Repeating Pattern Activity with the  Laminate and place these Three Little Pigs Pencil Control Sheets  Create an obstacle course outside for children to complete. Can
children, then encourage them to make their own patterns in a large activity tray with a fine layer of sand over them. Can the they rescue the pig at the end of the course and bring it back to
independently. children trace over the patterns they see? safety?
 Go on a subitising hunt to look for groups of three. Can the children  Provide the children with this Three Little Pigs Cutting Skills  Provide large rolls of paper while you retell the story. Encourage the
identify groups that have three, groups that have fewer and groups Activity. Can they make an outfit for each pig? children to draw using large movements, such as long, curved lines
that have more?  Provide muddy pigs, soapy water and toothbrushes for the children when the wolf huffs and puffs or fast circles when the houses fall
 Share this Houses and Homes Colour By 2D Shape Activity with to clean the pigs. down.
the children.
Workshop Sensory/Messy Sand
 Draw an outline of a wolf or a pig for the children to decorate as a  Encourage children to write about the story using this Three Little  Invite children to play with these Builder Stick Puppets, diggers and
group. Can they use a range of media to create their artwork? Pigs Early Writing Activity. wet sand to build houses.
 Provide real tools for the children to experience using. Explain how  Provide the children with these Three Little Pigs Writing Frames.  Hide these Pigs in Mud Capital and Lower Case Letter Matching
to stay safe when using the tools. Can they retell the story, make lists of materials needed to build a Game in your sand along with some straw. Encourage the children
 Encourage the children to make models of their own homes. house or write a letter to Mummy Pig? to match the letters together.
 Place sticks, blocks and straw in your sand tray for children to explore.