During the month of February our theme was Folktales. As I searched the web; I found that there weren't a whole lot of art projects to be found for folktales that other people have tried out. So that forced me to think outside the box and create my own. One of the projects we did represented the houses from the 3 little pigs folktale. I read online some ideas for art projects; and combined them for this project.
On a large piece of construction paper (12x18) we used wooden craft sticks (popsicle sticks), dry spaghetti noodles, and red construction paper rectangles.
With older kiddos you could have then cut their own roof and door for each house. I knew the gluing in this project would take their little hands awhile so I decided to do that ahead of time for them.
Although all the kids were given the same materials, each picture turned out different!
I LOVE how some are more abstract than others, and how some kids were so precise.
We used this project to work on story sequencing as well. Notice how the houses go from left to right- straw, sticks, bricks. Many of the kids then used their pictures to re-tell the story to someone at home.
