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If You Give a Pig a Pancake Activities

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ACTIVITIES FOR IF YOU GIVE A PIG A PANCAKE

If You Give a Pig a Pancake by Laura Numeroff begs for some piggy pancake fun after reading.  So, I’ve got some fun literacy filled If You Give a Pig a Pancake book activities for you.

ACTIVITIES FOR IF YOU GIVE A PIG A PANCAKE

If You Give a Pig a Pancake:  The Story

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If You Give a Pig a Pancake is a circular story meaning that it starts and ends in the same place.  Pig gets a pancake and then asks for syrup to go with it.  The syrup makes the pig sticky so then she wants a bath.  At the end we come full circle with the pig being sticky from wallpaper glue which reminds her of syrup and pancakes!  It’s a simple story, but very entertaining.  It also helps that my youngest was obsessed with lawnmowers and there is a picture of one in the book too.

If You Give a Pig a Pancake Activities

Cooking Piggy Pancakes with Kids

I love cooking with kids and this book begs for you to make piggy pancakes. We love starting our mornings with Homegrown Friends’ recipe for Homemade Buttermilk Oatmeal Pancakes.  Toppings (blueberries, strawberries, chocolate chips and almonds) were set out for the kids to decorate their own pancake.  While they were eating, I read the kids the story again.

Yummy pancakes to go with If You Give a Pig a Pancake and more literacy activities!

Feed a Pig a Pancake

ABC’s of Literacy shares a fun printable activity to work on letter recognition.—>See the Pig Activity

Play Dough Pancakes

Build play dough pancakes and work on fine motor skills with this idea from Simple Fun for Kids.—>Pancake Play Dough Activity

Sensory Pancakes

Keep the sensory fun and play going with these sensory pancakes from Barley & Birch—>Check Out the Sensory Pancakes

Beginning Sounds Pancakes

Flip some beginning sound pancakes in this playful activity.—>Beginning Sounds Pancakes Activity

a plate of beginning sound pancakes

Build a Fort

The pig in the story builds a treehouse.  We opted for a reading fort and enjoyed some more of Laura Numeroff’s books.

reading fort

A few of our other favorites from Numeroff are: If You Take a Mouse to the Movies, If You Give a Mouse a Cookie (If You Give…) and Laura Numeroff’s 10-Step Guide to Living with Your Monster.

Have fun acting like pig in the story.

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*This post was first published on 1/13/14 and has since been updated.

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About Jodie Rodriguez

Jodie Rodriguez is a mom of two young boys and an early childhood/elementary educator with over 20 years of experience. Jodie's passion is helping parents, teachers, librarians and anyone else interested in nurturing and reaching ALL of our youngest growing readers.

Comments

  1. Kim Vij @ The Educators' Spin On It says

    January 25, 2014 at 11:38 pm

    Jodie thank you so much for hosting the Virtual Book Club for Kids the month featuring Laura Numeroff. I adore the pancake flipping activity and need to get one started for my littlest one who’s learning her letters and sounds.

  2. maryanne @ mama smiles says

    January 19, 2014 at 9:32 pm

    Such fun activities! I love that decorated pancake!

  3. Jill says

    January 18, 2014 at 7:09 pm

    We haven’t read this book yet… but we really want to! I am adding it to our list for the month of February.

    Thank you for stopping by the Thoughtful Spot Weekly Blog Hop this week. We hope to see you drop by our neck of the woods next week!

  4. Catherine says

    January 18, 2014 at 10:40 am

    What a fun bathtime and such a great idea to practise letter recognition 🙂

  5. Eva @ The Multitasking Mummy says

    January 15, 2014 at 9:11 pm

    What a cute little book and I love how you have reenacted the book through the day. This is something I must remember for when my son is older and more engaged in books.

  6. Lauren says

    January 14, 2014 at 8:54 pm

    My kids love pancakes and pigs too! What a great reading fort, perfect idea for winter months.

  7. PragmaticMom says

    January 13, 2014 at 6:50 pm

    Voted! Good luck!

  8. Natalie says

    January 13, 2014 at 2:37 pm

    This is a fun theme day! Thanks for sharing with Afterschool.

  9. otilia says

    January 13, 2014 at 2:10 pm

    thank you so much for sharing this with the #pinitparty

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