The Three Billy Goats Gruff is a favorite fairytale with great characters, lessons, and learning opportunities. No matter how often you read it, the kids still get giddy when the troll is about to gobble up the tiniest Billy Goat. Take their love for this fun book and bring it into your classroom with a variety of activities. We’re here to help you with a list of twenty Billy Goats Gruff craft activities for kids!
1. Story Structure Literacy Centers
Start your students off with a trip down memory lane and have them retell their favorite books using major events from the story. These fun picture cards and character cutouts can be used in a variety of literacy activities. They’d also make an excellent addition to a pocket chart station to practice additional literacy skills.
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2. Float-a-Goat – STEM Activity Pack
This activity pack combines STEM and fairy tale activities. It’s a great way to blend art, engineering, problem-solving, and fine motor skills. Using basic building materials, a printable activity booklet guides students to plan and build a raft for the Billy Goats Gruff.
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3. Paper Plate Billy Goat
Billy goats make for fun farm-themed activities! Using two paper plates, and some simple art supplies, your students can create this fun bearded goat to retell a familiar story.
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4. Troll-Tastic Craft
Bridge trolls make fun projects for writing inspiration. Using craft paper, glue, and a simple writing prompt, students can make the bridge troll and share what they think he did after being thrown off the bridge.
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5. Stick Puppets
Unload your craft supplies to make these fun character puppets. Have your students cut their own shapes or use puppet templates to make stick puppets! These characters are perfect for use in your literacy center!
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6. Recycle TP Rolls to Make a Medium Billy Goat
We love a good recycled Three Billy Goats Gruff craft. Cover a toilet roll tube in brown paper, add some colored construction paper, and attach tufts of cotton to make the Billy Goat’s beard.
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7. Craft a Fun Billy Goat Hat
This is a fun idea if you’re looking to bring reader’s theater and oral language activities into your classroom. These crafty little character hats would be perfect for students to wear during a Gruff retelling and can easily be pieced together using a printable template. Print, color, and cut out the one-piece template for an easy and cute hat craft!
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8. Character Masks
Some colored paper, string, tape, and glue are all you need to craft a fun goat disguise! Have fun guessing who’s who when you have a classroom full of “kids”!
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9. Build a Goat Craft
A printable Gruff resource template is the perfect craft activity for your PreK – K students working on their scissor skills. Companion activities like this work well as a center activity.
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10. Year of the Goat Craft Mobile
This fun template will help you blend your students’ love of the Billy Goats Gruff with a study of the Chinese New Year and the zodiac animals. This Year of the Goat craft only requires paper, string, and glue to make a fun mobile.
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11. Billy Goat Origami Bookmark
Create a herd of billy goat bookmarks with an origami-paper folding activity. Sheets of paper, some step-by-step instructions, and colored construction paper transform into a handy corner bookmark!
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12. Fairy Tale Paper Bag Goat
Grab a stack of brown paper bags and let your kindergarten students run wild with craft supplies to make this fun paper bag goat puppet. This is another fun activity for retelling the story or putting on a classroom puppet show.
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13. Paper Plate Billy Goat Craft
The versatile paper plate is the foundation for a unique Billy Goats Gruff craft activity. Print the templates for your students and let them color, cut, and glue to make one!
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14. Goat Shape Craft
Have some math fun with your Prek – 1st graders who are learning about 2D shapes. This goat is crafted from triangles, circles, and other two-dimensional figures. What a fun basis for a variety of math learning activities.
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15. Three Billy Goats Flip Book
This flipbook is the perfect combination of craft and curriculum. This adorable Three Billy Goats Gruff set has multiple booklet options to summarize their learning and retell the Three Billy Goats Gruff story.
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16. Ink Blot Troll – 3 Billy Goats Art
Your fairy tale unit isn’t complete without a classic ink-blot piece of troll art. Plop some paint onto a sheet of card stock, fold it in half, press, and reopen. Voila! Say hello to your perfectly unique bridge troll.
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17. A Troll-Tastic Art Project
Fun activities like these can spring from a read-aloud. These students felt that the troll needed some friends, so they gave him a makeover! To make these monsters, students used construction paper, glue, and basic shapes to create the shape. Then add additional details using scrap paper.
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18. Billy Goat Balloon Puppet
A nontraditional craft project, this Billy Goat balloon puppet is a fun way to introduce your students to the art of puppetry and marionettes. A balloon, some string, tape, and colorful paper cutouts are all you need to create the puppet pieces for this dramatic retelling activity.
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19. Wooden Spoon Billy Goat Puppet
Create a hands-on activity for the Three Billy Goats Gruff story with a handmade wooden spoon puppet! An inexpensive wooden spoon, some paint, and decorative accents are all you need to create these simple puppets.
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20. Goat Handprint Craft
There’s nothing cuter than a child’s handprint on a piece of artwork. Paint each child’s hand brown and press it onto card stock. From there, your students can finish off their goat with googly eyes, string, and other crafty bits to make the tiniest Billy Goat Gruff!
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