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If You Give a Pig a Pancake Coding Activity

January 26, 2018 By Deirdre

If You Give a Pig a Pancake is a great jumping off point for coding with young children. They love the rhyme of the words and the story ends back where it started. After reading If You Give a Pig a Pancake, you can help your children connect the pictures on the coding printable to create an algorithm or series of steps that sequence the events.

If You Give a Pig a Pancake Coding Activity

Getting Ready for the Activity

You will need to print out either the BW or color versions of the If You Give a Pig a Pancake Coding Printable. When you select BW, the pictures will be uncolored and outlined in black and white.

Then you will need to get a copy of the If You Give a Pig a Pancake. If you plan to read the book to your students and then go over the sequence of events, you will just need one copy. If you want to create the algorithm in pairs or on their own, you will need more copies of the book.

Working on the Coding Activity

After reading the book, you will need to give each of your children a copy of the coding printable.

They will need to start at the bottom left-hand corner where you find the pig and the word start. Children will need to draw an up arrow in the box with the pig. Then they will need to draw an up arrow in the box between the pig and pancake. Next, they will need to draw an up arrow beside the syrup and one in the box above the syrup.

Children will continue drawing an arrow in each of the boxes that connect the events in order until they reach the pancake box with the word end in it. You may need to review the directions up, down, left, and right with your children and draw a sample arrow in each of the directions. It will help your children know what they look like.

If you like this coding activity based on a children’s book, here some more:

Little Miss Muffet Coding Activity and Printable

Coding Activity- Going on a Bear Hunt

The Very Hungry Caterpillar Algorithm Activity

Gruffalo Coding Sheet

Coding for Kids- The Day It Rained Hearts

Brown Bear, Brown Bear Coding Printable

The Snowy Day Coding Printable

Shapes for Kids Matching Game Based on If You Give a Pig a Pancake

January 22, 2018 By Deirdre

Your children will have fun matching each butter pat shape to the pancake that displays that shape in the middle. You will be able to put this shapes for kids matching game based on the book If You Give a Pig a Pancake with items you have in your pantry and craft closet. If you have older children at home, they will be able to help you put it together.

Putting the Shapes for Kids Game Together

Gathering the Supplies

Brown Scrapbook or Construction Paper
Yellow Scrapbook or Construction Paper
Shapes from a shape peg puzzle, or Cut from Cardboard to Trace
Scissors
Glue Sticks
Black Markers
Small Saucer or Plate
Small Paper Plate

Directions for Putting the Shapes for Kids Game Together

The first thing you need to do is decide how many shapes you want to have your children explore. Then you will need to start by tracing around the edge of a small plate or saucer onto the brown paper with a black marker to make the pancakes.

Next, you need to cut out the circles.

Then you will need to trace a shape in the middle of each of the pancakes. You will next need to write the name of each shape in the middle of on each pancake.

Finally, you will need to trace each of the shapes you have decided to use on to the yellow paper. These yellow shapes will be the pats of butter for the pancakes.

The pancakes can be glued or placed onto small paper plates. You will find another version of the game below that requires the pancakes not be glued to the plate.

Playing the Shapes for Kids Game

Version One of the Game

You can put out one or two of the paper plates containing pancakes. Then you can put out all of the shape butter pats. Children can try to place the correct butter pat on each of the pancakes.

Next, you can take out a few more of the plates with pancakes on them. Children can try to find the shape pats that this set of plates.

Version Two of the Game

This version of the game requires one plate and a set of pancakes not glued to a plate. Children will place on pancake on the plate and then find the butter pat that matches that shape. Then they will place a pancake on top first one and look for its matching pat. Children will contain adding pancakes and their matching pats until they have a full stack of pancakes.

Puffin Muffin Recipe Served in a Bento

June 18, 2012 By Deirdre

I came across a wonderful recipe for The Magic Puffin muffins. They sounded like the perfect thing to serve my husband for breakfast on Father’s Day. Last Tuesday JDaniel saw the movie Happy Feet 2 and it had a puffin in it. Along with the puffin muffin I created a tortilla puffin, I wanted to share with you and the meal I wanted to make. Recently I served both them to JDaniel in a Bento container.

What is in the tin?

The box contains two puffins. I made one puffin out of a dyed tortilla cut out with a pattern of puffin that I made out of clip art picture from the internet. He was given a carrot eye with a raisin added, carrot feet, and part of his beak is made of carrot pieces. The rest of his beak is made of yellow pepper.

The second puffin is the pancake muffin I will tell you more about later.

The sun shining over the puffins is filled with delicious strawberries and blueberries. We have gotten the best tasting fruit this summer.

Making Puffins

JDaniel and I had the best time making these wonderful puffins. He loves to help in the kitchen and jumps at the opportunity to help all the time.

His first job was to place the liners in the pan. He has become an expert at pulling the liners off the stack and placing them into the pan.

JDaniel’s favorite job is mixing the ingredients. He loves to sneak his fingers into the mixing bowl. I try to keep them out of the mixing bowl, but he is very sneaky.

The final step after placing the mix in the liners was to sprinkle on crushed bacon. JDaniel loves bacon. He wanted some of the bacon to not make it on the puffins. Some of it conveniently stayed in the bag for him.