FAIRY TALE FUN!

ACTIVITIES

Baking Wedding Cakes-incorporating math with measuring fractions
science-baking food

Discuss: The "Happily Ever After" endings in fairy tales. A

llow students to help bake cake. Why do fairy tales end with a wedding? Do you need a wedding to be happily ever after?

Fairy tale Museum-awesome open house night project. Decorate classroom. Make props and costumes. Post children's fairy tales.

Riddles- Assign a couple fairy tales to read and create own riddles describing which story it is NOT.

Bean Stalk Graphing- incorporates math and the story Jack and The Bean Stock. Also allows scientific observation.

http://www.abcteach.com/free/c/chart_beanplant.pdf

Venn Diagram Cinderella- Read Cinderella from various parts of the world. Discuss differences and similarities between these tales.

http://www.abcteach.com/free/c/cinderella_venn.pdf

Fairy Tale Acrostic Poem-Allows use of poetry. Could use acrostic poems for individual tales to describe plot of story in groups. Then read a loud to classroom.

http://www.abcteach.com/free/a/acrostic_fairytales.pdf

Character Mobiles- Assign students different characters from each fairy tale unit.

When I Become Desperate- http://www.readwritethink.org/classroom-resources/lesson-plans/teaching-about-story-structure-874.html

VIDEOS

Paper Bag Princess Video- 20 minutes long. Discuss how this story ended differently. Why are the boys never saved?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWzRpb4kLSY&feature=related

Little Red Riding Hood- Don't show pictures, but song is interesting. Upper grade.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABBBtXYGwHY