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THREE BILLY GOATS GRUFF
General Description
This lesson is a good starting point for younger students to gain imaginative experience with Kid Pix,
using it as a starting point for visual depictions of a
scene in a story.
Closure
• What was easy to create in Kid Pix and what
was difficult?
• What other stories can the young students
draw a scene from? Other folk tales or fairy
tales?
• Collect the printouts of the students’ artwork
and post on bulletin board or as a class book.
Grade Levels
Pre-K–Grade 1
Curricular Areas
Art, Language Arts
Measurement/Follow-up
Completeness of task and accuracy or imaginativeness of illustrations.
Objectives
• Students practice listening skills.
• Students practice reading skills.
• Students draw/illustrate an image from the
story.
Extensions
• Other tales that the students bring from home
or find at the library can be illustrated in Kid
Pix.
Time/Class Size
• One or two class periods
• Large class introduction, individual activity
Preparation
Locate a copy of the tale Three Billy Goats Gruff (for
example, by Paul Galdone or Stephen Carpenter) to
read aloud, preferably with good illustrations, or
prepare one that can be used as an overhead or in
large format for classroom viewing.
Procedure
1. Read Three Billy Goats Gruff aloud to class.
Discuss the tale.
2. What are the most vivid images from the tale?
Can the students create these in fingerpaints,
spongepaints, collage, paper-tearing?
3. Create the scene with the third Billy Goat on
the troll’s bridge in Kid Pix. There is plenty of
room for variation and starting over this way if
you create a template first.
4. What happens in the scene? If students are
able, use Small Kids Mode and have them
stamp a name or description for the scene.
Otherwise, a good opportunity for verbal
sharing.
• More advanced students can add writing to
describe each scene they illustrate, or can illustrate many scenes from one tale.
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