The Three Little Pigs...

For a few weeks now, the kids and I have been working on building houses for the 3 little pigs.  We painted, glued, adhered things, glued, etc.  It has taken a while, but at last we have come to a completion....

If you would like to create these adorable homes for your own little piggies, here is how we did it.

First, you need to gather supplies:

*Paint Brushes

*Yellow, Brown, White, Black Paint

*Wax paper to prevent messes on table (live and learn :)

*Boxes for homes (We used pasta boxes for 2 of them because they came with windows)

*Straw for straw house (if you don't have any, cut up yellow paper into thin strips)

*Baby sticks (this is what Makenna called them when we went out to gather little twigs)

*Red paper (we used card stock and cut it into 1 and 1 1/2 inch rectangles)

*Glue

*Paint your boxes.

*Once they are dry, cut out windows and doors (Be sure to do this before you glue down supplies, or it will be more difficult.)

For the Straw house:

*Sqiggle glue around and drop hay on for a messy approach

*(or, for a neater approach, line it up neatly.)

*Once one side is dry, move to other sides of the house.  

*Do additional layers to make it covered in straw.

The stick house took the most time as it required lots of trimming of the "baby sticks".  This is the house that I did, and it was a long process.

You can go for a less together approach by swirling glue around, and dropping the twigs on.  Doing this would go along better with the 3 pigs story because the first 2 brothers were lazy. :)

*Glue down bricks.

*Stagger a little to make it look more like a brick house if you wish.

The finished pieces:

I had been racking my brain over what I wanted to make the characters out of, but after long debate, I landed on this idea, to paint the characters on rocks (the ultimate durability and FREE!).  I painted them with acrylic paint and then put a few layers of mod podge on top to seal the deal.  These guys will last through many play sessions.  Makenna has already given me a list of several more characters she wants me to make for her :)

 

For the finalizing of the brick house, we added a chimney out of a small box, painted the chimney and door black, them added a little smoke coming out of the chimney by using cotton. 

 The end result:

The kids LOVED this project!  They enjoyed painting, gluing, and now playing with the houses and the pigs.

 I'm glad we are now done.  This doesn't have to take a long time, but well, I was lazy for a while there.

I will be happy to get them and all of my supplies off of my table!  Now I need to put up a few shelves in the toy room for displaying their cute little creations :)

* This is another idea I stole from Alexs' teacher.  They studied the 3 little pigs in class and then built their houses.  Alex opted out of this to play with the blocks, so I of course had to make it a home project.  They didn't make any of the characters though.