Make a pink pig using one large circle, one medium circle and one small circle. The circles can be cut from pink construction paper or pink card stock. You can also have your students paint three different-sized paper plates pink. Glue the medium-sized circle onto the large circle. The smallest circle is the snout and should be placed on the middle of the medium circle. Add rectangles for legs, triangles for ears and a curly tail. Draw eyes to complete the pig.
After reading "If You Give a Pig a Pancake," read the other books in the series. Emphasize the words in the titles that begin with the same sound, such as "pig" and "pancake" or "moose" and "muffin." Provide students with paper, pencils, crayons and markers. Have them create their own book using the same formula for their book title, "If You Give a ____ a _____." It may be necessary to assign each child a different letter of the alphabet to avoid everyone working with the same book title.
Turn your students into little piggies by creating a pig snout mask. Give each child one-half of a toilet paper roll and pink paint. They can paint the roll with their fingers or use a paintbrush, but the roll should be completely covered with pink paint. Glue a pink construction paper circle with two colored nostrils to the end of the toilet paper roll. Once that dries, punch a hole on both sides of the opposite end and tie string or yarn through them to complete the mask. These masks can also be made from small paper cups or a cut-up egg carton.
Create a plate of pancakes with craft foam. Have children trace and cut out several circles from light brown craft foam. Using glue specially formulated for the foam, glue circles onto a paper plate. These "pancakes" can be stacked or laid individually onto the plate. Next, glue yellow foam squares, or "butter," onto the pancakes. Children could also glue small blue circles for blueberries or small black circles for chocolate chips onto their creation.