These 3 Little Pigs story stones are perfect for re-telling and reading comprehension. Using flat rocks and paint pens, these are simple to make!
Story stones are an excellent tool to help with reading comprehension. Using story stones allows for kids to re-tell a story, a very important component in comprehension.
It also provides opportunities for hands-on learning (our favorite!). My kids love our 3 Little Pigs STEM Challenge so much, so we have created some fun 3 Little Pigs Story Stones to play with as well!
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What are story stones?
Story stones for kids are painted rocks, or rocks that have been decorated with stickers, to display characters or scenes from a story.
Re-telling a story is an essential part of reading comprehension, and this is a great way for kids to re-tell stories in a visual and tactile manner.
If you like these story stones, check out our Camping Story Stones for Kids, Life Cycle of a Frog Painted Rocks and these Back to School Painted Rocks too!
3 Little Pigs Story Stones
Painted rocks are so popular, and for good reason! Kids love to paint and play with rocks, and they can become excellent learning tools as well! While the artwork on these story stones is advanced for kids, they can join in my first painting a white or colored base on the rocks to start.
What you need to make the three little pigs story stones:
9 Flat rocks (check your garden store for river rocks or collect from outside)
Chalk
Small pouches for storage (optional)
Alphabet stencils (optional)
How to make the 3 Little Pigs story stones
If you want to make a pouch for storage (which I love, and kids do too), simple use alphabet stencils and the black paint pen to write ‘story stones’ or ‘3 Little Pigs’ on the bag.
Next, gather 9 rocks and using chalk, draw a rough design on your rocks.
For this set, we have 3 pigs, 3 houses (straw, brick and sticks), a wolf, wind (‘Huff and Puff’) a pot, and some fire.
These are the basic designs you will use and then you can go back in with the black paint pen to add some accent work.
Store them in the pouch and let your kids play with them as you tell the story or read the book, before you know it, they will be acting out the book with the stones on their own!
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