Last week, we read the classic story The Three Little Pigs. In the story, the two “lazy pigs” constructed of straw and sticks while their ambitious brother made his house of out bricks. We decided to try to replicate the three houses using pipe cleaners (straw), popsicle sticks (sticks), and Legos (bricks). We broke in to multiple groups and began trying to make a “wolf-proof house”.
The kids worked together as a team. They brainstormed their ideas together and even had a “friendship leader” at each group that made sure everyone was showing the HEART of an Eagle at all times.
What the kids didn’t know while they were building their houses was that the wolf was going to be a BLOW DRYER!
Once they heard the blow dryer.... I mean wolf... the excitement level shot to 100! Here are some snapshots of testing the three houses against the Big Bad Wolf!
Here we have my blow dryer appropriately transformed in to a wolf!
And he huffed...
And he puffed....
And he blew the house down!!!
Next comes the stick house!
It blew down!!! And we were SOOO excited....
So we practiced “silent cheers!"
And finally house number 3--- the brick house!
Last minute construction.
He huffed and he puffed... and the house did not blow down!
Even with a blow dryer, the brick house did not blow down!
So the wolf crawled on to the roof, went down the chimney and “ooooowwwww-eeeeee” he fell in to a hot pot of boiling water. The wolf ran off and was never to be seen again!
