The Three Little Pigs

You must all now the tale of The Three Little Pigs.What you may not know is that it has also been adapted into a board game by Orchard Toys. I bought it for Wolfie for his three or four year birthday. Partially because I love boardgames myself (I must confess), but also because I wanted him to enjoy playing with something else than trucks and vehicles, and because I wanted him to learn about fairy tales in an interactive way. In other words, I wanted to broaden his horizons. He did not spend much time with it, until afew days ago, when to my surprised he got in the mood to play it. I say play it and we did not really follow the rules, he just liked moving the pieces on the board and have the Big Bad Wolf blow down houses, but it was fun nevertheless.

La peur du grand méchant loup

J'ai pris cette photo lors de ntore visite wn septembre dernier au parc pour enfants Sundown Adventureland et je la reproduis ici car elle sert mon propos. demain on nous annonce des vents violents et on nous recommande de rester chez nous. Ce que nous ferons. C'est peut-être une coïncidence, mais hier ma femme a essayé hier de faire découvrir à notre petit loup l'histoire des trois petits cochons, via un vidéo sur YouTube. Mal lui en prit: il en a eu une peur bleue. Pas tant le grand méchant loup que ce qu'il fait dans le conte. Enfin je crois. Il a fallu lui expliquer que ce ne sont que des histoires, mais ça ne l'a rassuré qu'à moitié. C'est assez étrange, car il n'a pas peur d'autres contes mettant en scène le Loup. Mais ça, c'est une autre histoire...

The Three Little Pigs and Wolfie

I blogged recently about our visit to a local preschool which was very nice. Wolfie enjoyed himself very much and we might send him there. One of the many toys and games he enjoyed was this display of The Three Little Pigs. For him it was the pigs ("oink! oink!"), for his daddy, it was the wolf. I love tales involving a Big Bad Wolf. The had books of the tale to read, but Wolfie was not interested in them as much as he was with the pigs and the wooden blocks that served for the wooden house. I want to buy him one book of the story, so I can read it to him.