Three Little Pigs EFL ESL Lesson Plan for kids

This is a Three Little Pigs EFL ESL lesson plan for kids telling the story of the Three Little Pigs and introducing shapes and house parts vocabulary. It will last about one hour and is suitable for preschool children, from about three to six years old. It is a fun way to use the fairy tale of the Three Little Pigs and is a great way to learn about shapes and houses.

For this Three Little Pigs lesson plan, you will need:

• Coloured card, scissors, glue and paper.
• Flashcards with different shapes. If you haven’t got any, find them here
• Drinking straws, ice lolly sticks and lego bricks

Three Little Pigs songs and videos:

• Dancing Shapes by Pinkfong
• Gonna build a house by The Tweenies
• House song by Planeta Infantil
• The Three Little Pigs by Debbie and Friends

Introduction: Let’s learn about shapes

After you’ve finished your normal Hello routine, introduce your shapes vocabulary. You could do this by drawing shapes on the board and seeing if the kids already know or can guess their names. Alternatively, put your shapes flashcards into a bag for them to pull out one at a time. Repeat the shapes together and make the shapes with your hands until they can remember them and then learn the Dancing Shapes song and dance together to practice.

Activity: Houses made of shapes

Now, we’re going to start looking at houses using our shapes. So with the shapes in colored card that you have prepared, start making different shape and size houses and teaching the vocabulary for roof, walls, door, windows, chimney and anything else you think would be fun. Ask the children to make a house maybe using squares and triangles or only circles of different sizes. Put them in pairs so that one child tells the other how to build their house. For example: “build the roof with a triangle”, “make the walls with a rectangle”. Don’t glue the shapes yet, we’ll do that at the end of the class. This will give all the children a chance to have a go using the new vocabulary.

Using the song by The Tweenies, build a house making shapes actions with your hands as you sing and dance. You can do the same thing with the first verse of the House Song by Planeta Infantil. Now, we’re going to introduce the story of the Three Little Pigs.

Tell the story: The Three Little Pigs

You can tell the story of the Three Little Pigs by reading it from a book, acting it out with toys or puppets or watching the video by Debbie and Friends linked above. Make sure you repeat the vocabulary relating to the houses, talk about the different parts of the houses and their shapes in the pictures and introduce the building materials straw, bricks and sticks.

Practical Activity: Build houses for the Three Little Pigs

Time to build houses for the Three Little Pigs. Split the kids into small groups and give each group a building material, either drinking straws cut into small pieces, ice lolly sticks or lego bricks. Each group has to build a house with their materials. Then they’ll have to describe it to the rest of the class. So for example, “my house is built with straw, it has a roof and walls and a door”. Whose house will be the strongest? Let the kids take turns to be the wolf and try and blow the house down: “I’ll huff and I’ll puff and I’ll blow the house down!” Sing the House Song by Planeta Infantil.

Craft: A house made of shapes for the Three Little Pigs

Make house collages using shape cut outs and straws and lolly sticks glued onto plain paper. And of course, draw the Three Little Pigs by their houses. Label the different shapes and get the kids to repeat their names as you do this.

Conclusion:

Finish off by singing the songs again and doing the shape dance and then do your Goodbye routine.

I hope you find this Three Little Pigs EFL ESL lesson plan with shapes and houses useful for your classes. Let me know if you try it or if you have any other ideas of how it could be used. If you want to see any of my other lesson plans, you can find them here. To keep up to date with news and new posts, you can follow the GoogooEnglish Facebook page or sign up for email updates below.