The "tail" end of 3 Little Pigs week

Science - Blow It Down! - We built some pig house and then experimented to see which ones we could blow over and which ones the wolf (blow dryer) could. 

Straw Houses - We discovered that our straw houses were not very stable and that we could easily blow them over. 

 We decided a straw house would not make a good home.

 Stick Houses - Next we built stick houses.  We tried blowing these over with our own breath, and we couldn't!  But the "wolf" (blow dryer) did a great job.  It would scoot the house across the table!  Still not a very good home.

Brick Houses - Next we built our brick houses with Legos.  The kiddos got right to building and then blowing their houses.  No luck!  And when we tried the "wolf" it couldn't either!  If the kiddos had built a tall house, then the "wolf" could knock it over, but it was still all intact!  Now we have found a good, safe home!

Piggy Plates - These turned out really cute!  Ha!  I love how the various pig parts end up here and there!  For instance the triangles next to their pig's nose are the ears.  Ha!

Balloon Pigs - I let the kiddos draw pig faces on their balloon with a sharpie.  Risky, I know, but we only ended up with a marker dot on one kiddos nose.  Ha ha!  Don't know how he did that!

 

Cutting Practice -  Utilizing my paper scraps from scrapbooking, the kiddos get to practice cutting.  I always set out envelopes for the kiddos to take their bits home in.

The 3 Little Pigs - Week

This week we are learning with "The Three Little Pigs".  I love doing a themed week with a book!  Here are some of the activities we are doing this week...

Circle Time - We read a couple different versions of "The Three Little Pigs", I'm hoping to do some acting out later in the week.

Textured Art Activity - The kiddos created the three little pig's houses from the same building materials, well, nearly!  We used straw, sticks and sand paper (bricks).

Snack -  We ate all the fixin' for the 3 little pig's houses.
Straw:  shredded wheat
sticks:  carrot sticks
bricks:  cheeze-its

Pigge Noses - These are cute, but the plates are a bit big. I think the next time I do this, I will find something smaller.  But they were cute!

 

3 Little Pig Book - The kiddos got to make their very own piggie book.  I cut straw, sticks and bricks for them to use, they got to create the rest.

 I uses 3 X 5 cards to create the pages for the kiddo's books.  Just a quick staple on the side with some scrapbooking tape over top.

 Here are the bits I cut for their pig house.

I found a pig stamp in my farm Stampin' Up kit for the kiddos to use.

 Here they are a few pages being created...

 This kiddos loved gluing the bricks in, so he glued 3 or 4 pages of just bricks, ha!

Pig Nose - I found these at our party store!  They are pretty cute on the kiddos.  Now I just need to find a wolf nose!

Edible Stick Houses - Yummers!  Today for snack we made pretzel houses, they were tasty!  The white goo is almond bark, so as we munched it began to set up nicely and allow our stick houses to stand up.

 

Learning Station - Pancake Letters

To add to our 3 Little Pigs week, we read:




Which was fun because it gave us an excuse to make and eat pancakes today (see recipe in prior post).

For this learning station, I cut out brown circles and wrote letters on them.  Then I called out a letter and the kiddo found and flipped over that pancake, using the spatula.  One kiddo who knows his letters told me what the letter was and then flipped it over.

I think this would have been cute to have made the pancakes from craft foam.  Also words would be another great thing to put on the pancakes.

Pink Piggie Pancakes

Here is my family's favorite from scratch pancakes.  We made them piggie pancakes by adding pink food coloring and chocolate chip eyes.

Stir together:
2 cups flour
3 TBS sugar
5 tsp baking powder
1 tsp salt

In another bowl, stir together:
2 eggs
2 cups milk
1/3 cup vegetable oil
1 tsp vanilla

Mix the two bowls together, stirring with a whisk to get all the lumps out.  Then cook on a griddle at about 275 degrees.  Enjoy!