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.