RIC-20939 Early years Fairytales - Riding Hood

Little Red Riding Hood – 2
Visual arts
• Make a simple wolf hand puppet from a small grey
sock. A child places his or her hand in the sock. Help
him or her make a mouth appear with the hand. Mark
where eyes and ears should be placed. Glue, sew or
staple on googly eyes, two egg carton section halves
painted grey for the ears, jagged teeth cut from an egg
carton lid and painted white for the teeth and a tongue
from a strip of red material. Use in drama activities.
• Using various books, show the children pictures of Little
Red Riding Hood’s grandma in her nightgown. They
can talk about their favourite pair of pyjamas, favourite
nightie or what they like to wear to bed. The children
can draw or paint a picture of themselves.
• Find pictures in magazines and catalogues of things
that are red like Little Red Riding Hood’s cloak. Glue
each on a large sheet of paper to form a collage. Extra
pictures can be drawn and coloured. The same could
be done with green (like the trees in the woods) or grey
(the colour of the wolf).
• Make Little Red Riding Hood’s house or Grandma’s
house from a milk carton. Cut off the top of a carton
to the required size. Assist the children to cover it with
paper, using craft glue. Paint the house the desired
colour. Help children cut out a door. Draw on windows
with coloured marking pen or use stickers. The house
can be glued onto a sheet of green art paper. It can be
used as a prop for the Little Red Riding Hood sand tray
setting display on page 98.
• Make a simple-designed flower to use as a prop in
the sand tray display. Slightly flatten two coloured
cupcake liners. Glue the bottom of one to the other. Use
a coloured cottonwool ball, coloured sprinkles, glitter
or similar to make the flower’s centre. Glue or staple to
half a green straw.
• Using wooden spoons as a basis for the body to make
puppets of the characters from the story. The children will
need assistance to complete some parts of the puppets.
Have groups make specific characters so there will be
approximately four to five difficult characters. These can
then be placed in the drama centre for the children to
use. Use the instructions below:
−−Little Red Riding Hood: paint the handle red; add
plaited or straight yellow/brown wool for hair, red
piece of material for cap part of cloak, triangle of
red material or paper folded around and glued on
for cloak.
−−Her mother: paint handle yellow; add short yellow/
brown wool for hair, triangle of floral material for
dress/apron.
−−Grandma: paint handle pale blue; add short white
wool for hair; triangle of blue material for nightgown/
shawl; glasses drawn on face.
−−Wolf: paint entire spoon grey; add fur material strip
for tail; pointy, grey fur material for ears; round black
nose; zigzag black teeth.
−−Woodcutter: paint handle light green; add brown
material cut in rough trousers shape, green piece
of material for cap, axe made from piece of tin foil
folded over a piece of craft stick.
− − For each human character, paint the spoon’s bowl
pink. Facial features can be drawn or googly eyes
added.
• The children paint their favourite scene from the fairytale.
They think about the type of picture they will paint and
work out if the paper should be placed portrait (up
and down) or landscape (across). A sentence can be
scribed, copied or traced under the picture when dry.
• Fold sheets of coloured A4-size card in half and use to
make ‘Get well’ cards for Red Riding Hood’s grandma.
Decorate by drawing or gluing pictures of flowers,
chocolates, cupcakes, a teapot and things they think a
grandma might like to look at to feel better. Words can
be scribed, copied or traced inside the card.
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