Pinterest & Telling the Story of "The Three Little Pigs"

Pinterest - either the best thing on the internet or the worst (depending on how much time you have available to waste). Most believe that Pinterest is just a social media sight that gives girls and women alike ideas of things that we just "have to have" or, for those of you who are married, things that your husband just "has to build" for you. While all of this may be true Pinterest can also be a wonderful tool of resources in the classroom. I have personally been required to use Pinterest to complete a project for a class. I do believe that for those of you brave souls that have classrooms of older students that are capable of using the internet efficiently that it would be a interesting for your students to use Pinterest to complete a project. Now if your like me and you have a classroom full of kids who would rather roll around in the dirt or jump rope all day I would not suggest allowing your students near a computer, much less Pinterest. Instead you could use Pinterest as a resource full of activities, crafts, lesson plans, games, etc etc for your classroom. Last week the students and I read the story we are all familiar with of "The Three Little Pigs" and then I found this neat idea on Pinterest were the students would work with a partner to write a script, make puppets, and put on their own presentation of the Three Little Pigs. This is how I did it...

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1XCSpyLUz6SHa4MIKdEL-PXkfClUqEg3M7wx3z9TJKXI/edit

1. First I paired the students up with a partner and instructed them on how to begin writing their script and to discuss and agree on what they thought was the main lesson/moral of the story, this was to be included in their script and play. 
2. After the students finished their scripts they then gathered the supplies that they would need to complete their puppets - pink, yellow, orange, and white paper, a brown paper sack (or brown paper), googly eyes, brown pipecleaners, scissors, a glue stick, and a brown or black sharpie
   
3. Students then cut out the shapes and separated the necessary supplies to create the three little pigs and the big bad wolf puppets - pink construction paper, white paper, googly eyes, and popsicle sticks 
   
4. Students used a glue stick to glue these pieces together to create their puppets 
   
5. Students then made the "straw house" from the story using half the brown paper sack, cut up strips of the yellow paper, and a glue stick 
   
6. Students then made the "stick house" from the story using the other half of the brown paper sack, brown pipecleaners, and a glue stick 
   
7. Students then made the "brick house" from the story using the orange paper and the brown sharipe, but you could use red or black paper or sharpies to represent the brick 
   
8. Students then used their script, puppets, and houses to put on their play of "The Three Little Pigs"
   

Good luck and happy story telling!