Overview
The children will make Pig a wig as they recognize and produce words that rhyme with pig, such as big, wig, and jig.
 
Literacy Activity

• If making a puppet, use the following instructions:
  • Attach the pig graphic (see below) to a Popsicle stick.
  • Choose a child to loosely wrap yarn several times around their hands as the rest of the children chant, “Pig wig! Pig wig!”  
  • Take the looped yarn off the child’s hand, and tie a smaller length of yarn perpendicular to the the looped yarn, like a bow tie. 
  • Cut the looped ends of the yarn to make a wig.
  • For video directions on making the wig, watch this instructional video and leave out steps 6–8.
• Put the wig on the pig puppet or plush toy, and have the children do a jig with the pig, chanting “Jig with Pig! Jig with Pig!”
• During the jig, have the pig lose its wig then say, “Oh no! Pig lost his wig!” 
• Choose another child and repeat the steps to make another pig wig, but this time starting from their hand to their elbow, while the children chant, “Big pig wig! Big pig wig!”
• Have the children do a jig with Pig again, chanting, “Jig with Pig! Jig with Pig!” and this time, when the pig loses its wig say, “Oh no! Pig lost his big wig!” 

 
More Practice

• Give the children different word pairs, and then ask them if the words rhyme. 
• Use some rhyme words and some words that don’t rhyme (e.g., say, “Pig and wig rhyme. Do big and wig rhyme?” “Pig and wig rhyme. Do pig and cat rhyme?”) 
• Give each child a small pig graphic and a Popsicle stick. 
• Have the children make their own pig puppets and make yarn wigs for them.