Pre k fairy tales
Fairy Tales Theme - PreKinders
Pre-K & Preschool theme ideas for learning about fairy tales
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Books
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The Three Little Pigs
Art
We make the houses of the Three Little Pigs by gluing on raffia pieces (straw), toothpicks (sticks), and small rectangles of red foam (bricks). We talk about the sequence of the story (which house did the wolf come to first, second, third), and make the houses on the paper in that sequence. The children dictate a few sentences to retell the story.
The Three Bears
Math
Add bear family cookie cutters (made by Wilton) to the play dough area. Children use these to cut out the different sizes of bears to make the bear family. (I also use these during my Families Theme, but children enjoy seeing previously used materials get rotated back in to the centers.)
Princess on the Pea
Math
We use two beds from our dollhouse furniture for this game. The children take turns rolling dice and taking that amount of mattresses (cut from craft foam) to put on the bed. When all mattresses are gone, the child with the most mattresses on the bed is the “true princess” or prince.
Jack and the Beanstalk
Science
We grow our own small beanstalks by planting lima beans in a cup.
The Fisherman and His Wife
Math
We use a blue shower liner on the floor for the water. Paper fish have 0-10 dots on them, with a paperclip attached, and are tossed onto the “water”. Children catch a fish with magnetic fishing pole, count the dots, and write or stamp the numeral on a fish cutout. The magnetic fishing poles are made with a magnet wand tied to a rhythm stick (or dowel rod) with string.
Gingerbread Man
See the Gingerbread Unit page for Gingerbread Man activities.
Queen of Hearts Tarts
Cooking
Tarts are often made during the medieval ages. Children make their own tarts with this recipe:
Mix two spoonfuls of cream cheese with two spoonfuls of strawberry preserves in a cup.
Spread the mixture onto vanilla wafers, and add a heart-shaped candy (red hots or other candy).
Fairy Tale Art
Gold Crowns
We make crowns out of plain construction paper. We paint them with gold glitter paint, and add some sequins for “jewels”.
Fairy Tale Literacy Activities
Bejeweled Bingo
Use plastic jewels to cover the letter/number/shape on the bingo cards. We use these to play alphabet bingo, number bingo, shape bingo, or rhyming bingo.
Fairy Tale Retelling
A large sheet paper is folded in half, like a story book. The children draw a picture of one of their favorite fairy tale characters on the front. On the inside, they dictate their retelling of the fairy tale.
Fairy Tale Math Activities
Fairy Tale Graph
Each child writes their name on an index card, chooses a favorite fairy tale, and places their card on the pocket chart graph. We count and compare the results: what has the most/least/same? I pick about 5 fairy tales for the children to choose from and place pictures of those fairy tales at the top of the pocket chart.
- Fairy Tale Graph Printable
Musical Jewels Game
We place the classroom chairs (“thrones”) around the circle. I place plastic jewels (from a craft store) only on certain chairs. Children march around the circle. When the music stops, they must find a throne to sit in. If a jewel is there, they take it. The children keep a count of how many jewels they have collected.
Jewel Strings
Children use strings of plastic “jewels” that have various amounts of jewels on them (1-10 jewels). Children count the jewels on the jewel strings and match them to another string of jewels of the same amount.
Jewel Patterns
Children make patterns on a pattern grid card using plastic jewels from a craft store. You can also use paper crowns from the dollar store and have children place jewels on each point of a paper crown in a pattern. We practice making patterns by size and color.
Crown Grid Game
Read about about print here: Grid Games
Fairy Tale Science Activities
Castles
In the Block Center, the children construct castles with the large and small blocks.
I take photos of them to make a book of castle designs.
Fairy Tale Cooking Activities
Medieval Feast
Mead: In the Medieval Ages, people drank mead because the water was unclean. We made our own mead with this recipe: Mix a spoonful (or more) of honey in a cup of water. Add a few squirts of lemon or orange juice and sprinkle on some nutmeg. Stir and drink.
Medieval Dessert: Sprinkle cinnamon on a pear half. Warm in the microwave.
More
Castle Prop Box
Cone-shaped princess hats (can make with paper and streamers), Crowns, Fancy shoes, Robes (red capes with white fur), Princess dresses, Chair for throne, Cardboard box castle.
Rhymes
Queen of Hearts Nursery Rhyme
The queen of hearts,
She made some tarts
All on a summer’s day.
The knave of hearts,
He stole those tarts
And took them clean away.
Sing a Song of Sixpence
Sing a song of sixpence,
A pocketful of rye.
Four and twenty blackbirds
Baked in a pie.
When the pie was opened,
The birds began to sing.
Wasn’t that a dainty dish
To set before the king?
In My Shop
You might also like these Fairy Tales True/False Cards, available in my shop. This is a fun story recall game, where you read a card to children and they decide whether the statement is true or false about the fairy tale. Cards are also illustrated.
- Little Red Riding Hood @ Pre-KPages.com
- Jack and the Beanstalk @ Pre-KPages.com
- Goldilocks and the Three Bears @ Pre-KPages.com
Fairy Tales Activities and Centers
It’s time for a fairy tales theme so bring on all the princesses, princes, castles, jewels, bears, billy goats, giants, golden eggs, and dragons! There are endless fairy tale books you can use, which means endless learning activities you can plan. I’m here to share my favorite go-to fairy tales activities my preschool and pre-k students want to play again and again. Make sure you grab the shape crown craft FREEBIE next in this post.
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Shape Crown FREEBIE! What’s the first thing you think of when someone says fairy tales? A princess and prince right? Print the page on yellow paper and set out a tray of paper or foam shapes. I also put out these fancy rhinestone stickers I had (Walmart find) to make the crowns extra sparkly. It’s a fun craft to learn about shapes and strengthen those scissors skills.
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Princess and the Pea Patterns! Cut up pipe cleaners and make giant patterns. Pretend the pipe cleaners are mattresses for the princess and the pea.
Rapunzel Measure! Make braids using various colored yarn.
I don’t know why but the brown yarn in my photo below looks black, so know I did include beautiful brown braids! Use colored cubes or any math manipulative to measure the braids and compare the length (non-standard measurement).
Beanstalk Number Match! Jack and the Beanstalk is a favorite every year so make it into a math game. Students can count and match quantities and numbers that are represented in different ways. I added green gems and gold magic beans (not pictured) for added fun. To make gold magic beans, simply paint lima beans with gold acrylic paint.
Fairy Tales Blocks and STEM Ideas! Take the fairy tales theme to the blocks center with my Fairy Tales STEM I Can Build. Add gold cups to build castles with (Party City), moss rocks (Dollar Tree), unicorns or ponies (Dollar Tree), dragons and knights (Toobs figures from Michaels), colored felt, cut-up necklaces, tree logs (Discount School Supply) and mini crowns (party crowns I cut in half from Target), and fake leaves (Dollar Tree).
You will be amazed at how excited and engaged your little builders will be with fancy new props for your fairy tale theme.
Look at what this group of ladies built with all of the fairy props….. a magnificent castle!
Fairy Tale Sensory Bin! Put dried peas, shape gems (Michaels), metallic eggs, mini unicorns or fairies, moss rocks (Dollar Tree), and tweezers in your sensory bin for a fun fairy tale themed sensory bin. My students sorted the gems into matching colored eggs (math), sorted the gems by shape (more math), hid the unicorns in the eggs, or just filled the eggs up with tiny treasures. As they play, they are strengthening those fine motor muscles as they pinch, pick up or open and close the eggs!
Fairy Tale Play Dough Tray! If you read any of my themed center posts, you will likely find a themed play dough tray to match because my kids LOVE play dough trays. They get played with almost EVERY DAY during free choice centers! This fairy tale play dough tray has green gems (Dollar Tree), small pebbles (Dollar Tree), ponies (Dollar Tree), shape gems, cut-up plastic necklaces, dragons (Toob), fairy tale cookie cutters, and play dough.
Students can sculpt, poke, hide and smash the play dough as they wish, all while working those fine motor muscles and problem-solving along the way!
Jack and the Beanstalk Letter Match! I took a big egg crate (from Sam’s for free), placed dot stickers in each, and wrapped a green vine (aka beanstalk) around it. I wrote a letter on each dot sticker. Then I wrote letters on some magic gold beans, uppercase letters on one side and lowercase letters on the other side. I cut white paper clouds to put under it to make it look like the castle in the sky.
This would be fun to make into a counting game by placing number stickers in each, and students count out the corresponding number of magic beans!
To make magic gold beans, just grab some lima beans, place them in a baggie with gold acrylic paint and shake. Then lay out to dry.
Crown Letter Match! Learning letters is HARD, so make it fun with this crown jewel letter match.
Students simply match the uppercase and lowercase letters and place them on the crown. This game can also be used to practice sight words and student names.
Red Riding Hood Letter Hop! Get students up and moving with this fun letter hop. I found this picnic basket-looking paper plates at the Dollar Tree and wrote a letter on each one. Students take turns hopping through Red Riding Hood’s letter path, and as they hop over the letter, they say it. Give students a small basket to make it even more like the fairy tale! It’s also an easy way to observe and assess jumping.
Fairy Tale Writing Center! Place fairy tale word cards, fairy tale paper, and various writing supplies at the table. I added these DIY chalkboards I made using trays from the Dollar Tree for a new way to explore writing.
Magic Wand Word Work! Building words can get boring but spice it up using magic wands.
Take some sparkly pipe cleaners and bend the end into a star to create a magic wand. Students lace the uppercase or lowercase letter beads onto the wand to build the word.
Cinderella’s Sound Match (or letter)! Cinderella needs help matching her glass slippers. Use a hole punch so students can link the pairs up together with a chain manipulative. Again, sneaking in more fine motor and eye-hand coordination work. If you have younger students who are not ready to match beginning sounds, this game also comes with uppercase and lowercase letters to match up.
Three Pigs Letter Formation Cards! Make handwriting and letter formation fun with these letter formation cards. Build letters just like the three little pigs with straw (yellow pipe cleaners), sticks (small popsicle sticks), and bricks (red gems or red brick blocks).
Fairy Tale Books! There are so many amazing fairy tale books; my shelf just isn’t big enough.
My new favorites are the board books across the top which are part of the Once Upon a World series. Please remember to have fairy books that look like all your students in your classroom. They will be so excited when they see princesses and princes that look like them.
Three Pigs Art! Put the paintbrushes away and paint like the three little pigs. Paint with straw (twine), sticks (popsicle sticks), and a brick (red block). I love using these plastic food trays from the Dollar Tree for painting projects. If you want to do the activity again the next day, just cover the tray (brushes and all) with plastic wrap.
Fairy Tale Theater Dramatic Play! Transform the dramatic play center into a Fairy Tale Theater for your fairy theme. Students can retell and act out various fairy tales during play. Students will be building reading comprehension, sense of story, book skills, and fluency each time they act out the book or watch from the audience.
Add a concession stand to the theater, and you can sneak in tons of math opportunities like counting money, identifying numbers when they read the snack prices, weighing candy, and sorting the candy by color. I wrote a huge blog post with all the details to help you create a theater in your classroom HERE.
I’m sure you can pack your lesson plans full of fun fairy tale themed activities your kiddos can learn from. Now, if you want to grab my fairy tales printables (so you don’t have to make them yourself), here are all the links you will need!
<< Fairy Tale Math and Literacy Centers CLICK HERE >>
<< Fairy Tales Theater Dramatic Play >>
<< Fairy Tales STEM I Can Build >>
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Tales for children 6-7 and 8-9 years old (read online)
Reading takes a special place in the life of a child over 6 years old. To keep the book a friend, and not just another homework, invite children to read the world's best fairy tales, stories and novels from this section.
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881 Always ask your son or daughter what book they would like to read.
In no case do not impose your choice. For example, some girls do not like fairy tales about romantic princesses - they are more attracted to pirate adventures, stories about alien conquests and dinosaurs. Similarly, not all boys are interested in epic heroes.
The book should not be a burden. You can invite your child to listen to an audiobook or read aloud to him. Fairy Tales for Toddlers (read online)
A growing child is curious and active. At 2-3 years old, it is especially useful to read fairy tales for kids - books entertain, develop and educate.
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Early age is a great time to develop an interest in reading. Of course, girls and boys do not yet know the letters and will not be able to read fairy tales for children 2 years old on their own. Mom and dad read the first books to them, accompanying the story with funny games.
In order for a son or daughter to become interested in literature, parents themselves must devote a lot of time to reading. The child looks with curiosity at adults immersed in books and asks the question: “What is so interesting there?” For this occasion, the best fairy tales for children of 3 years old - folk and author's - should be in store.
It is better not to read children's fairy tales for kids, but to tell them - because it is not at all difficult to read and remember. So that the child does not get bored listening to you, watch the expressiveness of intonation and facial expressions. The perception of the plot largely depends on the artistry and enthusiasm of the narrator himself.
Advantages of early reading
Fairy tales for 2-3 year olds are simple in content, but have a powerful educational and developmental potential.
