Pigs... continued

Pig Headbands
Measure your child's head, and cut a piece of pink construction paper long enough to create a headband. Glue the paper together so the headband fits snugly on your child's head but is loose enough to take off easily. Cut from pink paper two ears. Let your child help you glue the ear to the headband. It's okay if it's a little off, it's art! Have fun, and encourage your child to act like a pig.

Paper Plate Pig Mask
Have each child paint a paper plate pink. After the paint has dried, have the children glue two triangles to the edge of the plate for the ears, a circle for the snout and cut out two eyes. Add nostrils to the snout with a black pen.  Glue a craft stick to the bottom of the plate so the child can hold the mask in front of their face.

Act Like a Pig
Ask the children what sorts of things do pigs do.  Have the children pretend to be pigs by acting out some of the responses.  Some ideas might be:
they oink
they roll in the mud
they eat a lot

To market, to market, to buy a fat pig,
Home again, home again, dancing a jig;
To market, to market, to buy a fat hog;
Home again, home again, jiggety-jog;
To market, to market, to buy a plum bun,
Home again, home again, market is done.

Pink Piggies
Place red and white paint on a large sheet of white paper.  (1 red to 3 white)  Have the children mix the colors with their hands, a paintbrush or a sponge or other item.  Ask the children what they notice while mixing.  After the paint has dried, cut out large pig shapes from the paper.
Alt: instead of using white paint use shaving cream or glue.

Ten Little Piggies
sung to "10 little indians"
1 little, 2 little, 3 little piggies
4 little, 5 little, 6 little piggies
7 little, 8 little, 9 little piggies
10 little piggies in the barn

They snort and they snort and they snort all day
they snort and they snort and they snort all day
they snort and they snort and they snort all day
10 little piggies in the barn

They oink and they oink and they oink all night
They oink and they oink and they oink all night
They oink and they oink and they oink all night
10 little piggies in the barn

They roll and they roll and wallow in mud
They roll and they roll and wallow in mud
They roll and they roll and wallow in mud
10 little piggies on the farm.

This little piggy went to market.
This little piggy stayed home.
This little piggy had roast beef,
This little piggy had none.
This little piggy ran all the way home.

Five Little Pigs
Five little pigs (hold up five fingers) rolling in the mud (make rolling motion with arms)
Wallowing and squashing the best they could (make squashing motion with hands)
Time for a bath the farmer said (shake a finger)
He cleaned one pig and put him to bed. (pretend to go to sleep)

Four little pigs (hold up four fingers) rolling in the mud (make rolling motion with arms)
Wallowing and squashing the best they could (make squashing motion with hands)
Time for a bath the farmer said (shake a finger)
He cleaned one pig and put him to bed. (pretend to go to sleep)

Three little pigs (hold up three fingers) rolling in the mud (make rolling motion with arms)
Wallowing and squashing the best they could (make squashing motion with hands)
Time for a bath the farmer said (shake a finger)
He cleaned one pig and put him to bed. (pretend to go to sleep)

Two little pigs (hold up two fingers) rolling in the mud (make rolling motion with arms)
Wallowing and squashing the best they could (make squashing motion with hands)
Time for a bath the farmer said (shake a finger)
He cleaned one pig and put him to bed. (pretend to go to sleep)

One little pig (hold up one finger) rolling in the mud (make rolling motion with arms)
Wallowing and squashing the best he could (make squashing motion with hands)
Time for a bath the farmer said (shake a finger)
He cleaned that pig and put him to bed. (pretend to go to sleep)

NO little pigs (make all gone motion) rolling in the mud (make rolling motion with arms)
Wallowing and squashing the best they could (make squashing motion with hands)
Time for a bath the farmer said (shake a finger)
He cleaned himself and went to bed. (pretend to go to sleep)

Pigs in the Mud
Make chocolate pudding and place each serving in a cup, that is the mud. Add pink mini marshmallows on top for the pigs.

Piggy Toes
Paint your child's toes with pink paint. Then press them onto a sheet of white paper. After the paint has dried add feet, ears, snout, eyes and a tail with a black pen to make it look like a pig.

Piggy Fingerpirnts

Supply each child with a piece of white paper and a pink non-toxic stamp pad. Show the child how to make fingerprints on the paper, using only one finger at a time. After the paint has dried add feet, ears, snout, eyes and a tail with a black pen to make it look like a pig.

Dramatic Play Ideas

• Add plastic pig shapes to your block area.  Have the children create a pig pen or barn for the pigs with the blocks.
• Add plastic pigs and dirt to the sand and water table.  Or be brave and let the children play with the pigs and MUD
• Add pig masks and a wolf mask to the dramatic play area.  Have the children pretend to be the three little pigs.
• Affix three pig shapes and a wolf shape to tall blocks with contact paper.  Have the children build the houses for each little pig and they can have fun "blowing" the house down.

Blow the house down

Set up many different sized blocks on the table.  Ask the children to try to blow the blocks over.  

Piggy Prints
Obtain many plastic pig toys.  Have the children dip the pig's feet in brown paint and press onto the paper to make pig prints.

Rolling in the Mud
Obtain many plastic pig toys.  Have the children dip the whole pig in brown paint and roll onto the paper to make wallowing pig art.

Pigs - preschool lesson plans

Pig Painting 
Cut a pig shape from pink construction paper. Let your child paint on the "mud" with black or gray tempera paint. The children can use their fingers or a sponge to apply the "mud".


Muddy Pig Painting 
Cut a pig shape from pink construction paper. Let your child paint on the "mud" with using chocolate pudding or real mud. The children can use their fingers or a sponge to apply the "mud".


Paper Plate Pig
Have each child paint a paper plate pink.  After the paint has dried, have the children glue two triangles to the edge of the plate for the ears, a circle for the snout and two googly eyes.  Add nostrils to the snout with a black pen.  


The Three Little Pigs
Read your favorite version of "The Three Little Pigs" with your children and allow them to act out the story in the block area.  Have the children build the three different homes and supply them with three pig toys.  


Alternatively, you can buy the Melissa and Doug "Little Pig Play Set" to allow the children to recreate the story.  


Or you could have the children make paper plate masks  or puppets to represent the three pigs and the wolf and have the children act out the story. 


Counting Legs
Supply the children with a few plastic pig toys.  Have the children count the legs on one pig.  How many legs do two pigs have?  Three?  



Pig Pet Toy Art
First you need a large box lid (paper box lids work great). Next place a piece of paper in the lid. Place a few drops of paint into the container with the pig toy.  Have the children roll the pig around in the paint to make a great design.   When finished, remove paper and allow to dry, and place a clean piece of paper in the lid for the next child.


Alt.  Use pig shaped pink paper and brown paint for mud.
Alt.  Place the paint in ketchup or mustard squirters so the children can add paint as they desire.


Old MacDonald Song
Sing a verse of Old MacDonald
Old MacDonald had a farm, 
E-I-E-I-O
and on that farm he had a pig
E-I-E-I-O
With an "oink oink" here and an "oink oink" there
Here in "oink" there an "oink" 
Everywhere an "oink oink"

Old MacDonald had a farm, 

E-I-E-I-O

Pig Sticker Sort

Obtain at least four identical sheets of pig stickers (like the ones to the left).  Attach each sticker to one heavy card stock square.  Have the children sort the stickers.

Pig Memory (Game)

Obtain two identical sheets of pig stickers (like the ones to the left).  Attach each sticker to one heavy card stock square.  Use the squares to play memory.

The Pigs on the Farm

Sung to "The Wheels on the Bus"

The pigs on the farm go "oink, oink oink"
"oink, oink oink, oink, oink oink"
The pigs on the farm go "oink, oink oink"
All day long.

Piggie Noses

Separate an egg carton bottom (the part where the eggs sit) into 12 sections by cutting them.  Have each child paint the bottom of one section and allow to dry.  Use a marker or a dab of black paint to add nostrils and allow to dry.  Finally, knot one end of a piece of string or elastic and attach it to the egg carton with a staple so the knot is on the inside of the cup.  Place a piece of tape over the staple.  Place the cup over the child's nose and measure and cut the string or elastic to fit snugly around their head, remove the cup from the child's nose and affix the other end using the same method as the first side.    

Pink Piggies

Cut a pig shape from white construction paper. Have the children place a variety of pink tissue papers (that bleed when wet) over the pig.  Allow the children to paint the tissue with water, spray with a water bottle, or set out in the rain for a minute.  Allow to dry and remove the tissue paper.  

Ladybugs - Math, Science, Games and Songs - Preschool Lesson Plans

Math

Ladybug Sort
Cut out many different sized circles from red construction paper.  Add black circles with stickers, markers, pens or paint.  Allow to dry.  Ask the children to sort the ladybugs by size.

Ladybug Sort 2
Cut out many circles from red construction paper (all the same size).  Add 4 black circles to 1/2 of the shapes, and 6 black circles to the other half.  Have the children sort the shapes according to the number of dots on the shape.

Ladybug Seriation
Cut out many different sized circles from red construction paper.  Add black circles with stickers, markers, pens or paint.  Allow to dry.  Ask the children to place the ladybugs in order from smallest to largest.

Ladybug Seriation 2

Cut out many circles from red construction paper (all the same size).  Add 1 circle to the first, 2 to the next, and so on until you have done 10 circles.  Have the children put the circles in order from least number or circles to the greatest.

Ladybug Dot Counting

Cut out many circles from red construction paper (all the same size).  Add 1 circle to the first, 2 to the next, and so on until you have done 10 circles.  Have the children count the number of dots on each ladybug.

Ladybug Dot Match

Cut out many circles from red construction paper (all the same size).  Cut each circle in half.  Add 1 circle to 2 wing halves, 2 circles on 2 wing halves, repeat with 3, 4 and 5 dots.  Have the children match the wing halves based on the number of dots on the wings.

Ladybug Sticker Sort

Obtain at least four identical sheets of lady bug stickers (like the ones to the left).  Attach each sticker to one heavy card stock square.  Have the children sort the stickers.

Ladybug Memory (Game)

Obtain two identical sheets of lady bug stickers (like the ones to the left).  Attach each sticker to one heavy card stock square.  Use the square to play memory.

Science

Ladybug Life Cycle
Talk about the ladybug life stages with your children.  What other animals have similar stages?

Ladybug Life Cycle Toy Activities - Buy multiple sets
-  Have the children sort the toys by stage.
-  Have the children count them.
- Place the number 1 to 6 in the bottom of a muffin tin.  Have the children add one bug to the 1 tin, 2 to the 2 tin and so on.
- Allow the children to dip the toys (stages 2 and 4) in paint and press onto paper to make buggy footprints.
- Add the toys to the sand table or block area to enhance dramatic play.
- Set a toy from the class on one side of a balance and have the children estimate how many bugs will make the balance level.  Try it.
- Place many of the toys in a clear jar.  Have the children estimate how many toys are in the jar.  Record their estimations.  Count how many toys are in the jar.
- Make a pattern with the toys, have the children continue the pattern.


Ladybug Observation
Obtain live ladybugs for the children to observe.
Provide the children with magnifying glasses to enhance their viewing abilities.
Have the children record their observations in a journal.  (IE they are red, have 6 legs)


Games

Ladybug Hop
Cut out many ladybug shapes from red construction paper.  Use contact paper to attach the shapes to the floor in a path so the children can hop from one shape to the next.

Ladybug Musical Chairs

Cut out many ladybug shapes from red construction paper.  Use contact paper to attach the shapes to the floor in a circle.  It is better to have more shapes than children.  Play music and when the music stops the children find a ladybug to stand on.

Ladybug Seat Markers

Cut out many ladybug shapes from red construction paper.  Laminate the shapes and use them for seat markers.

Songs


Little Ladybug
Sung to Mary Had a Little Lamb
I have a little ladybug,
ladybug, ladybug
I have a little ladybug,
It's wings are black and red.

Ten Little Ladybugs
Sung to Ten Little Indians
1 little, 2 little 3 little ladybugs
4 little, 5 little, 6 little ladybugs
7 little, 8 little, 9 little ladybugs
10 black and red little ladybugs.

They fly and they fly and they fly away
they fly and they fly and they fly away
they fly and they fly and they fly away
10 black and red little ladybugs.

Ladybugs Fly
Sung to Three Blind Mice
Ladybugs ladybugs (place index finger and thumb together to represent the ladybug)
See how they fly, see how they fly (move "ladybug" around like it is flying)
They fly so high and they fly so low (move up then down)
They fly so fast and they fly so slow (move fast then slow)
Around and around and around they go, (move in circles)
Ladybug

Five Little Ladybugs
sung to Five Little Butterflies (a Barney song)


Five little ladybugs resting at the door.
One flew away and then there were four.

Ladybug, ladybug happy all day.
Ladybug, ladybug fly fly away.

Four little ladybugs sitting in a tree.
One flew away and then there were three.

Ladybug, ladybug happy all day.
Ladybug, ladybug fly fly away.

Three little ladybugs looking at you.
One flew away and then there were two.

Ladybug, ladybug happy all day.
Ladybug, ladybug fly fly away.

Two little ladybugs sitting in the sun.
One flew away and then there was one.

Ladybug, ladybug happy all day.
Ladybug, ladybug fly fly away.

One little ladybug left all alone.
One flew away and then there was none.

Lady Bug Art - Preschool Lesson Plans

Lady Bug Art - Preschool Lesson Plans

Ladybug Dots
Provide each child with a red circle. Have them draw as many black dots as they would like on one side. Have the child count the dots on the paper and write the number on the other side.

Ladybug Dots 2:
Provide each child with a paper plate.  Have the child paint the paper plate red.  After the paint has dried, have the child create dots on the plate using their finger dipped in either black paint or a black ink pad.

Ladybug Blot: 
Provide each child with a red circle. Fold the circle in half.  Have the child create dots on one half of the circle by dipping their finger in black paint and pressing it onto paper.  Fold the circle again, pressing the wet side of the ladybug onto the other half of the circle.

Ladybug Fingerprints
Supply each child with a piece of white paper and a red non-toxic stamp pads. Show the child how to make fingerprints on the paper, using only one finger at a time. When finished add wing outlines, dots, heat and antennae with a black pen, or for older children, have them add the features.

Ladybug Headband

Have the children cut out two strips of red paper that when connected will fit around their head. Have the children create dots by gluing on circles, using fingerprints or a circle stamp.  When dry, connect the strips with glue or tape, (staples will catch the child's hair). Supply the children with two pipe cleaners... and have them shape them however they want to and tape them on the inside of the headband. 

Paper Plate Ideas:
Provide each child with a paper plate.  Have the child use red paint, markers, crayons, or colored pencils to color the plate red.  After the plate has dried (if applicable), the children can apply dots:
by making fingerprints with ink or paint
gluing on black circles made from construction paper or felt
painting dots with a paint brush
stamping on dots with a circle stamp
tearing black construction paper in circle shapes and gluing them on.
Alternatively the body can be made with red construction paper cut into a circle shape.

Ladybug Shakers
Have the children create two paper plate ladybugs, see ideas above.  When dry (if applicable), place rice, beans or other item on one of the paper plates and cover with the second plate so the decorated sides are outside.  Staple the two plates together. The children can use these shakers for music and movement.

Ladybug Circles 
image submitted by Julia
Supply each child with a 4 inch black circle, a 4 inch red circle and a 2 inch black circle. Have the child cut the 4 inch red circle in half. Then, glue the two black circles together, one is the body and one is the head of the ladybug. Then glue the red wings onto the body. Finally, allow the child to add fingerprint spots on both sides, using either black paint or a black non-toxic ink pad. Count the spots on each side. Are they equal? How many spots are there total?


Ladybug Rocks
Supply each child with a round rock.  Have the child paint the rock red.  After the paint dries, have the children add spots with a tiny paint brush and black paint.  Allow to dry.  Add googly eyes, and add details with black paint.