I have to admit. I love the classroom transformations that we've done this year so far. When my students walk into the classroom, their eyes light up! We had so much fun learning about the elements of fairy tales and it made it even more fun with a fairy tale classroom transformation! Transform Your Room!
These fun fairy tale activities for kindergarten are a great way to keep your students engaged in math and literacy practice throughout the year!
Want a new way to enjoy Fairy Tales with your kids? Read together, then explore math and engineering with this set of Fairy Tale STEM challenges for K-5!
Fairy Tales STEM Blog Series What are STEM Tales? STEM Tales are a way to integrate literacy and STEM/STEAM activities for kids in first through third grade. The stories engage the kids, and as they read through the story they are seamlessly lead through the Engineering Design Process. Click any of the images below to read more about the STEM challenge, read this post about how to run a STEM tale challenge, or visit my Teachers pay Teachers shop where you can purchase one STEM tale, sets of 3, or 12 altogether. Goldilocks and the Three Bears Robin Hood Rapunzel Hansel and Gretel Beauty and the Beast Jack and the Beanstalk The Ugly Duckling The 3 Billy Goats Gruff The 3 Little Pigs Snow White Little Red Riding Hood The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
These fun fairy tale activities for kindergarten are a great way to keep your students engaged in math and literacy practice throughout the year!
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Every grade level loves to make castles. I wanted an easy fairy tale castles project for my second grade students.
Description: Unlock the magic of fairy tales with this comprehensive 100+ page unit study, perfect for children in elementary school! This printable, engaging curriculum is designed to transport your child into the enchanting world of classic fairy tales while developing essential skills through fun, educational activities. What’s Included: In-Depth Lessons: Explore themes like Good vs. Evil, Transformation, The Hero’s Journey, and Magical Objects, with activities that bring each concept to life. Character Exploration: Identify and create heroes, villains, and helpers, understanding their roles in storytelling. Setting Analysis: Discover how enchanted forests, grand castles, and small villages shape the plot and mood of stories. Comparative Studies: Compare fairy tales from different cultures, fostering global awareness and appreciation of diverse traditions. Creative Writing & Art: Inspire creativity with story mapping, character creation, and setting design tasks. Printable Worksheets: Engaging, ready-to-use worksheets for hands-on learning and reinforcement. Skills Developed: Critical Thinking: Analyze themes, character roles, and narrative structures. Creative Writing: Craft original stories, develop characters, and imagine new settings. Cultural Awareness: Explore fairy tales from around the world, understanding different perspectives. Artistic Expression: Illustrate settings, characters, and magical objects, enhancing artistic skills. Problem-Solving: Engage in activities that require strategic thinking and creativity. This unit study is perfect for homeschoolers, teachers, or parents looking to provide a rich, immersive learning experience that blends education with the timeless magic of fairy tales. Download, print, and embark on a fantastical journey that will captivate and educate your child!
This free fairy tale unit of study is a free unit of study you can add to your reading workshop.
Here are some of the things we did this week for our Fairy Tale/Storybook Character Unit: We talked about what a fairy tale is and wha...
This is a sequence and retell comprehension unit that can be used as a stand alone or as a companion to our Jabber the Reteller Comprehension Unit (see our TPT store). This unit includes the following: *A set of 8 large retelling picture cards *Individual retell mats with a set of 8 small retelling cards (one set of small cards is numbered to help in sequencing, the other set is not) *A 100-grid or 200-grid to be used in retelling - great for DIBELS Practice *Beg/Mid/End sequence cards *4 Leveled sequencing stories (Level B, C, D, E) *Retell puppets *Graphic Organizers *Story Element Cards (char, setting, prob, solution) *Fairy Tale Element Cards and checklist *13 Story element writing prompts *Word Wall cards *Beanie Baby Comprehension activities for: Jabber the Reteller, Digger the Dog, Spinner the Spider, Iggy the Iguana, and Rocky the Raccoon. *Suggested use of materials which can be used as lesson plans. *PLUS A **BONUS** PPT on the common elements of a fairy tale Check out all 9 of our fairy tale comprehension units!! All units are available in our **BUNDLE** at a fraction of the cost!! Three Billy Goats Gruff Cinderella The Gingerbread Man Jack and the Beanstalk Little Red Hen Little Red Riding Hood Snow White Three Bears Three Pigs
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**UPDATE: I'm working hard to make more pieces of this unit available. In the meantime, enjoy my favorite unit and one of love2learn2day's...
Over the last few weeks, ALuv {2nd grade} has been studying fairy tales. To accompany our study, I created several activities for him and today, I’m sharing them with you! {Link to download is at the end of the post.} Recording Fairy Tale Features Although he was already familiar with many of the fairy tales ... Read More about FREE Fairy Tale Printable Pack {for Reading, Writing, and Storytelling}
We've launched the most ADORABLE Balanced-Literacy Fairy Tale Unit! I couldn't help myself...I had to post some photos from the first few days of our unit. I am splitting fairy tales up into two weeks (which will make for one LARGE unit) 1. Princesses/Royalty (Cinderella, Rupunzel, etc...) 2. Folk Stories (3 Little Pigs, Goldilocks, Etc..) Here are some PRINCESS/ROYALTY Sneak Peaks! Here is how we are keeping track of our fairy tale features. Each time we read a story we check it off here and in our fairy tale folders. A follow up for shared writing: Writing Invitations for the Royal Ball Look at bottom left: She included a menu. LOL After reading Cinderella and Sidney Rella, we made glass slippers and sneakers. Then, we decided that we needed to have a "chat" with Ms. Cinderella. =) Shared Writing: We practiced writing summaries and identifying the most important parts. We negotiated these parts together and I was the scribe. Mapping the Royal Kingdom! Point of View: We ALWAYS think about the main characters...lets take some time to think about the other characters' points of view! The Cinder-Stories we'll study. Rumpelstiltskin Math Activity! We graphed our names and compared them to the length of Rumpelstiltskin! I have had SO much fun creating these so far, and I'm only three days in! The unit will have much more balanced literacy packed in. Until then,
Fairy tale writing can be such a fun unit! Students love reading and writing their own fairy tales. Grab a pre-writing freebie to use with your students.
Grade Levels 1st - 3rd Subjects English Language Arts, Science, Engineering Resource Type Activities, Printables Formats Included Zip Google Apps™ Pages 57 pages
Looking for fun Fairy Tale Activities for kids? Check out these 16 Hands-On Learning Activities and Centers for Preschool or Kindergarten.
Fairy tales are old stories told and retold again, but do they deserve a place in a modern language arts curriculum? Besides the fact that the Common Core standards require exposure to fairy tales, there
Are your children fascinated by fairy tales? What if they could create their own fairy tales and have fun doing it? Look no further than this FREE creative writing activity! With this free printable, students will be able to roll for character, action, and setting (location.) Next they will use the included graphic organizer to plan […]
The Little Red Riding Hood Fairy Tales packet draws upon the story elements found in the fairy tale to provide an assortment of literacy and math activities
Creating fairy tale story maps are a fun and engaging way to integrate literacy and social studies in kindergarten, first, or second grade.
This free Fairy Tales Story Mat helps children with their reading and encourages them to creatively reimagine Fairy Tales!
Unlike most students, this fourth grade dude opted for a moody evening sky. I love how well it works with this haunted looking castle. I recently discovered that if I need something, all I have to do is ask. For instance, I totally underestimated how much glue we would consume, er, use in the art room this year and only ordered one gallon. When that well ran dry, I simply sent out a school-wide email and within hours I had enough glue to put back together all of the dishes I've managed to break over the years. Thank goodness! My dishwasher is simply devouring those styrofoam plates! This is also how I managed to acquire the four million toilet paper tubes we used for this castle building project. The only slight draw back to asking for stuff: you just might receive far more than imagined (shoot me an email if you'd like to become the proud new owner of six garbage bags of toilet paper tubes! They make great gifts -- the expression on the recipent's face is always one of pure confusion which I like to interpret as joy). Because our castle was apart of our study of Germany, I also incorporated some of Grimm's Fairy Tales into the mix. This young artist dude obviously was inspired by Rapunzel. Okay, I'm dying to ask the artist about the story behind this drawing. Just why is the knight in shining armor high tailin' it out of town? Did he find out just how high maintenance those Rapunzels can be? "Climb up my hair, now braid my hair, make that a french braid, ouch, stop pulling, that hurts! Climb down my hair and get outta here you big ape!" This artist had his work on display at our local art museum, The Frist Center for Visual Arts. Pretty sweet. My mom once taped my drawing to the fridge. Okay, I taped it to her fridge. Just exactly how where these amazing castle pieces created by fourth graders, aside from a gallon of glue and a ton of tubes? Well, lemme tell you: Like I said, this project was a study of castles in Germany. We focused on Schloss Neuschwanstein (where you can see a super brief history here) and the landscape of Bavaria. During our first couple of art classes, we talked color theory and sky painting. 2. Next up: Cloud painting. We use a bristle brush to create the cloud texture with an emphasis that clouds have a flat bottom (hey, just like the art teacher!) and a fluffy top (ha! art teacher wishes). I also chat about showing space by painting the clouds near the horizon smaller and have them increase in size as they climb up the page. 3. After a big fat hairy chat about the landscape of southwestern Germany, we tackle the land. The students were given three pieces of 18" X 6" paper in the following colors: white, light green and green. They were instructed to crumble each piece, smooth it out, and rub water based oil pastels over each. Then each piece of paper was given a stroke of water with a paint brush to help blend the oil pastels. I have found the Crayola Portfolio Oil Pastels work best for this. 4. Once those were dry, each of the three papers were torn lengthwise. Some students opted to create three-dimensional mountains. This was done by taking a small torn piece of paper, coloring it heavily in oil pastels, laying it on the mountain and smearing the oil pastel from the paper to the mountain. From there, the land was glued to the sky painting. 5. After all of that landscaping, we were finally ready for our castle building. I kept the directions very basic because I was curious to see what the students would come up with. What I did tell them was to cut a slit up the back of the tube and fold each cut line about 1/4". This would be where the glue would go to attach to the landscape. This is also how the gnomes were glued down in my project posted last week. 6. For the top of the castle, short cuts were made and every other one was folded down. Easy. 7. The kids came up with the idea of the draw bridge. When one got the idea to glue a "chain" to hold the bridge, the rest just had to do the same. In case you mustache, this is Mustache Kingdom. 8. Here's how they were shaping up after a couple of days. Once glued down, they were ready to be painted. 9. Students were to paint a base coat onto their castles. I offered them black paint but a handful wanted something a little more colorful. And sparkly. What's a castle without glitter, after all? 10. After the base coat was applied, students sponge painted gray paint onto their castle for a rock like texture. When one student used the back of his paint brush to create bricks, the rest of us all had a "why didn't I think of that?!" moment. Yes, that's a flying PopTart/Taco/cat-with-a-rainbow-shooting-out-it's-butt thing. Not sure if that's from some cartoon or imagined. Most likely the effects of glue consumption. 11. Once castles were complete, the real fun began. Our castle either had to have a flag and/or a shield. After a chat about Grimm's Fairy Tales, I encouraged the addition of characters to the scene. Those that decided to not include characters and finished early wrote stories about their kingdom. I'm kinda on this kick where I add that super fine glitter to all of the paint. You can see that shine in this pair of castles. These kids have the funniest imaginations. I love their silliness. Last photo, I swear! This little amazing artist had the genius idea to add puffy paint vines to her castle. I'm rather smitten with her dragons. And there you have it! Many moons, tubes and a gallon o' glue later, you've got some of the coolest castles in all of Tennessee. Now, that I've got all the glue a girl could ever want, I'm thinking of sending out an email asking for coins. Tell me what you think of this: "Dear Teachers, The students will be using loose change. Would you mind sending any and all pennies, nickels, dimes and quarters to the art room? Thank you!" With all these generous teachers of mine, this outta easily cover my Spring Break vacay to Daytona Beach. Art Teachers Gone Wild, here I come!
Fairy Tale STEM Activity - Goldilocks and the Three Bears Try a hands-on STEM challenge with Goldilocks and the Three Bears! This STEM activity is designed for lower elementary kids. I am so excited to share some details about it! STEM tales introduce the youngest budding engineers to STEM, by taking a familiar story and using it to walk through the engineering design process. Do you love telling and re-telling stories with your kids? Do you ever change the ending to spice it up a bit? That's exactly what STEM tales is all about! Integrate Literacy and STEM with Fairy Tales The 8-page book provides an alternative ending to this story. Your students need to help make a bed for Goldilocks. Goldilocks is simply a printed out figure, which you can add weigh to with either small masses, pennies, or washers. Using whatever crafting materials you have handy (index cards and tape are really all that is needed, but feel free to use other supplies as well), create a new bed for Goldilocks. The Testing Phase of the STEM Challenge Is the bed large enough? Will it hold the weight of the figure? You will be surprised at the designs your students come up with! Designing and creating a bed for Goldilocks is a way for students to bring the fairy tale alive. After you have tested out the beds, it's time to introduce the bear family to the challenge (mama, papa, and baby, who is the same size as Goldilocks). You will add heavier weights to mama and papa bear, and then test the designs again. This is a great way to demonstrate why it's important to know your design criteria before starting a STEM challenge! Mama bear may fit on some and not others, or papa bear may fit but weigh too much and collapse the bed. Get the Goldilocks Fairy Tale STEM Challenge Here is the link to the full resource. In addition to all the steps above, the 8-page story book guides students through the engineering design process and also includes a self-evaluation check list. Or pin the idea for later: How to Conduct a STEM Tale Challenge To read more about how to conduct a STEM challenge, visit this post: To see all posts in this series, click here:
These engaging Little Red Riding Hood activities for kindergarten are perfect for putting together a fun fairy tale thematic unit in your classroom!
Your preschoolers will think these math fairy tale activities are the fairest in the land! Make Stone Soup, Hansel & Gretel patterns, & more!
The first story we read during our Fairy Tale Unit was The 3 Little Pigs. The kids helped me decorate simple cardboard cut...
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6 fairy tale STEM ideas that encourage problem-solving that you can easily implement with preschoolers using common household items.
I put together a simple and fun Humpty Dumpty Craft for my kids yesterday. You can download and/or print my worksheet HERE. Directions: Help put Humpty Dumpty
Fairy Tale STEM challenges created in collaboration with Mrs Mactivity! Design a raft for the Three Billy Goats Gruff, Grow a Bean for Jack
These fairy tale STEM activities for early elementary classrooms can help you combine engineering and literacy standards in an engaging way!
This outdoor game for kids who love fairy tales comes with its own printable cards! Each card has an action related to a different fairy tale!
Use this fairy tale story map to follow the details of your child's favorite stories and strengthen his reading skills.
I'm here to share my favorite go-to fairy tale activities my preschool and pre-k students want to play again and again.
Give beginning readers a boost with this whimsical, easy-to-read play based on the classic fairy tale! Includes three reproducibles to extend the learning!
This jousting activity is super fun to do as you study King Arthur, or just as an excuse to goof off and have fun as a bit of messy play. My kids all loved it.
6 fairy tale STEM ideas that encourage problem-solving that you can easily implement with preschoolers using common household items.
