Miss Mari's Preschool
An Adventure Every Day!
Fairy Tales
Books
Activities
The Big Bad Wolf is Good by Simon Puttock
Pig's Fairytale Adventure by Alain Brion
The Three Little Fish and the Big Bad Shark by Ken Geist
Jack and the Beanstalk by Parragon Books
Three Little Pigs by Patricia Seibert
Goldilocks by Parragon Books
Falling for Rapunzel by Leah Wilcox
Little Red Riding Hood by Parragon Books
Build Rapunzel's Tower
Give students unifix cubes, and have them build towers on top of the castles. They will build the towers as tall as the number on the castle.
Crown Count
Students count the jewels (dots) on the crown, and find the number and color it on their printable.
Red Riding Hood Letter Maze
Students help Red Riding Hood get to Grandma's House by following a specific letter.
Write the Room - Castles
Hide the castles around the room. Students walk around the room and color the castle on their printable when they find it. NOTE: I usually put the printable in a sheet protector so I can re-use them.
Where's Rapunzel?
Hide Rapunzel under one of the castles. Students take turns guessing a letter (or number if you want to write number on the castles instead of letters) trying to find Rapunzel. This game is available at my TPT store here.
Goldilocks and Three Bears Patterning
Each line on the Bear Printable is supposed to be a different pattern. So the students are coloring four patterns total. There are two ways to do this activity. Give the students the printable and some crayons and have them create their own ABAB, ABC, or ABB patterns, or start the pattern for them by coloring in the first few bears, and have them finish the pattern.
Pig Noses Letter Game
Students match the pig noses to the correct pig.
Beanstalk Race
Race the letters to the top of the Beanstalk.
Red Riding Hood
Students color, cut out, and sort items into Red Riding Hood's picnic basket based on the beginning sound. I do this activity at the beginning of the year, and a lot of my students still struggle with beginning sounds. So, I write the letter on the back of each picture and tell them that if they need to, they can turn the picture over and just match it to the correct basket by using the letter. I encourage them to try and figure out the sound though, and most of them love the challenge.
Goldilocks
Sorting by size is part of the Preschool Core here in my state, so I really wanted to make an activity where the students had to sort by size. I do think that I made the graphics a little too big, since Papa Bear's porridge, chair, and bed didn't fit on the page without covering him; but the students still got some good practice in sorting by size, and the vocabulary small, medium, and large.
Three Little Pigs
After reading The Three Little Pigs my students sequenced the events of the story. They turned out really cute, though I forgot to get a picture of the finished product, so here is the blackline master. First, the students color the three houses and the pigs. Then they cut out the houses and glued them on top of the pigs in the correct order of which house the wolf tried to blow down first, second, and last. We told the students to only put a line of glue on the very top so that you could still lift the houses up and see the pigs underneath. This is available at my TPT store here.
Rapunzel
My students LOVED this activity...even the boys! First they practiced cutting by cutting out the orange circle and gluing it on top of Rapunzel's Tower. Then they drew a face and colored the tower. I put yellow crepe paper of various lengths in the middle of the table. The students chose how long or short they wanted to make Rapunzels hair and then measured the hair with unifix cubes. I was surprised at how long they worked at this activity. Here are some samples.
Jack and the Beanstalk
I have mixed feelings about this activity. I think it requires the students to do some great things like cutting, gluing, matching, sequecing, etc. However, I felt like the activity was a little too hard for them because it took them forever to cut out all the leaves. But, I think if I would have cut the leaves out for them, the activity would have been too easy. So, I settled by having them cut out half of the leaves. My aide and I cut out the even numbered leaves, and the kids had to cut out the odd numbered leaves. It's a good activity, I just wish it was cuter. I know that's silly, but it's just not something I would hang on the walls in the hallway because it's nothing special. If you can think of something to do to make it a little more fun, please let me know! So if you haven't figured it out by now, the students cut out the leaves, and match them to the correct number on the beanstalk. Then they color their beanstalk and castle. My school was out of white paper when I did this, so I had to put it on grey.