The Three Little Pigs: EYFS/Early Years activities, Displays and ideas

🐷 Get ready to huff, puff, and build some amazing learning experiences with our 'Three Little Pigs' resources! From engaging Activity/Movement Challenge Cards and 'What Happens Next?' storytelling prompts, to bringing the classic tale to life with Role-Play Masks and Lollipop Puppets, we have everything to immerse your little learners. Reinforce narrative skills with our Story Sequence Cards (including large display and cut, sequence, listen, and match versions) and set the scene with our vibrant Display Banner & Call Out Quotes. Explore characters with detailed Character Descriptions and fun 'Wolf Wanted Posters', while developing creativity with Colouring Sheets and Illustration Activity Sheets. Plus, boost vocabulary with our Word Mat and Word Cards, enjoy our Memory and Picture Snap Games, and easily plan your lessons with our comprehensive Topic Plan Ideas. All this and much more awaits to inspire imaginative play and literacy skills! 🐺

Please scroll down to browse our The Three Little Pigs themed activity ideas, printable educational materials, planning inspiration, display resources, classroom & setting management tools and much more! If you’re looking for Preschool, Nursery, Childminder, Reception, SEND or Home Education resources for 0-7 year olds, you’ve come to the right place! Our interactive and engaging EYFS and KS1 learning resources are lovingly made (including original hand drawn images) by early years teaching and learning experts; a husband and wife team. We hope it helps! 😊

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🐷‘The Three Little Pigs’ related Theme & Activity Ideas by age (🥚0-3/🐣3-5/🐤5-7 years)

(Note: Ideas by age and stage below are merely a guideline. Please use your own discretion and knowledge of your children to ensure appropriateness of each activity and safety concerning any materials given.)

Possible Theme/Topic Titles

🥚Ages 0–3 Years (simple, sensory-focused and familiar titles)

- Piggy Playtime - Little Pigs, Big Fun - Oink Oink Storytime - Piggies in the House - Oink Oink! - Huff and Puff! - Soft Straw and Strong Bricks - Little Pig, Little Pig...

🐣Ages 3–5 Years (support storytelling, early construction, and role play)

- Three Little Builders - The Big Bad Wolf and Me - Building Piggy Homes - Once Upon a Pig - Straw, Sticks and Bricks - Build a House! - Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf? - House-Building Fun - Piggies and Plans

🐤Ages 5–7 Years (imaginative titles that encourage creative thinking and problem-solving)

- The Three Little Pigs: Reimagined - Homes Under Attack! - Piggy Architects - Huff, Puff, and Problem-Solve - The Wolf’s Side of the Story - Bricks, Sticks and Straw - Engineering with the Three Little Pigs - Homes Under Pressure! - What Happens Next?

📚 Literacy & Storytelling

• Listen to an audio story with pig and wolf sound effects (🥚0–3 years)

• Retell the story with finger puppets or stick puppets (🐣3–5 years)

• Create a “Wanted” poster for the Big Bad Wolf using descriptive language (🐤5–7 years)

🧱 Understanding the World & Science

• Explore different textures: hay, twigs, sponge bricks (🥚0–3 years)

• Test different materials to see which ones are strongest or blow away (🐣3–5 years)

• Build houses from various materials and test with a fan or hairdryer (🐤5–7 years)

🎨 Creative Arts

• Sponge-paint pig faces or finger-paint houses (🥚0–3 years)

• Construct 3D houses using art materials (straw, lolly sticks, LEGO bricks) (🐣3–5 years)

• Design a new house for the pigs using junk modelling or blueprints (🐤5–7 years)

🔢 Maths

• Place one pig in each house and match with the correct numeral (🥚0–3 years)

• Count pigs and houses, match numerals to amounts (🐣3–5 years)

• Create simple word problems: “If 2 pigs live in one house and 1 in another…” (🐤5–7 years)

🎭 Imaginative Play

• Cuddle pig or wolf soft toys and explore animal sounds (🥚0–3 years)

• Set up a construction role play area with hats, bricks, and toy tools (🐣3–5 years)

• Create a pig family and assign roles: architect pig, builder pig, chef pig, etc. (🐤5–7 years)

🏃 Physical Development

• Crawl through “pig houses” made from blankets or cardboard boxes (🥚0–3 years)

• Movement Activity Challenges, e.g. ‘Build a house slowly using HEAVY bricks’, ‘Run away from the wolf! Run!’ (🐣3–5 years)

• Build house structures using large blocks or boxes and try to “blow” them down (🐤5–7 years)

💡 Thinking & Problem-Solving

• Hide pig or wolf toys for a simple hide-and-seek game (🥚0–3 years)

• Sequence story events using picture cards (🐣3–5 years)

• Plan how to keep the pigs safe – new endings or wolf-proof designs (🐤5–7 years)

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