Use this pig to help your students learn about the letter P! Pig crafts will fit right into a Farm Animals theme and help make your life one day easier. It can also be used as a puppet when you sing “Old MacDonald Had a Farm” to help them understand the sounds pigs make! You can also use this together with the “Three Little Pigs” book.
Skills
Types of skills can include math, science, fine motor, dramatic play, social and emotional. Here is how this sheep applies these skills:
Math
Add in math concepts by having your child count how many legs are on a pig.
Science
If you have other crafts with your child, have them classify the pig along with the other crafts. For example, pigs fall under animals, where spiders are classified as insects.
Fine Motor Skills
Your child will learn how to use scissors to cut the their hand print and/or a circle. Additionally, your child will use a pencil or marker to draw in the eyes and nose. They will also use their pincer grasp to twist pipe cleaner to form the tail.
Dramatic Play and Social/Emotional
Children can use this pig as part of their farm and pretend to be pigs and make pigs noises.
Boundaries
Make sure you supervise your child when using scissors and other sharp items.
Materials
You will use pink and light pink construction paper, 1.5″ of pink pipe cleaner, markers, scissors, tape, glue. and the child’s hand for tracing the pig’s body. Also find something round to use for tracing a circle for the pig’s head.
Pink and light pink construction paper, and pink pipe cleaner
Markers, scissors, tape, and glue
Steps
Firstly, trace your child’s hand on the pink construction paper.
Then trace a circle on the same paper using your round object. I used the rim of a small cup.
Now draw an even smaller oval on the light pink construction paper to represent the pig’s nose.
Then cut out the hand print, circle, and oval. Allow the child to do the cutting with adult supervision if they have cutting skills.
Next, the child will glue the pig’s nose onto the head; and the head onto the body. Make sure to glue the head over the thumb!
Now have your child draw in two dots for the eyes, and two dots for the nose.
Lastly, twist the pipe cleaner into a pig tail and tape it onto the back side of the body, above the pinkie area.
Modifications
You can use googly eyes or sticker eyes instead of having the child draw them.
You can replace pink construction paper with other colors along with pink tissue paper, and have the child use their pincer grasp to crumble the paper and glue it onto the pig’s body.
You can use balloon ribbon instead of the pipe cleaner for the tail.
As a larger modification, you can paint your child’s hand pink and press it onto white construction paper and draw in the rest of the details once the paint is dry.
Be creative and make your pig any color and any size you like!