Three Little Pigs Coloring Pages
The wolf in this story has no weapons and no tricks. All he has is one very big breath, and it's enough to flatten a house of straw and a house of sticks. It takes a house of bricks to stop him.
I babysat a lot when I was younger and I loved coloring with the kids. We liked different levels of difficulty, so we'd each color our own page and then give them to each other as presents. Three of my regular families even gave me coloring books for Christmas! That's why most scenes in this story (and many others) come in an easy version and a more detailed one. I always liked the three little pigs and felt a bit sorry for the straw hut pig (who I thought of as a gardener... I love gardening) for having to build a boring brick house just to stay safe from wolves.
Jump to: Meet the Pigs | Leaving Home | Straw House | Stick House | Brick House | The Chimney
Meet the Pigs and the Wolf
The three pigs are easy to spot in this version. One is a gardener in a straw hat and one is a lumberjack in a flannel shirt and a knit cap. The third is a builder in a hard hat and a tool belt. The wolf is scruffy and a little smug with a big bushy tail, and he looks very different once he starts blowing.
Leaving Home
Once there were three little pigs who were ready to live on their own. Mama pig packed each of them a bundle and waved them off down the road. Every pig was sure he could build himself a fine house, and one of them was right.
The Straw House
The first pig wanted his house finished by supper. He gathered a big pile of straw and stacked it into walls and a roof. It wasn't strong but it was done, and the pig thought it was wonderful.
Then the wolf knocked on the door. "Little pig, little pig, let me come in!" "Not by the hair of my chinny chin chin!" said the pig. "Then I'll huff and I'll puff and I'll blow your house down!" And he did. Straw flew everywhere and the pig ran all the way to his brother's house.
The Stick House
The second pig was the lumberjack and he thought sticks sounded much stronger than straw. He chopped and hammered all day long and ended up with a snug little cabin. He was just sitting down to supper when his brother came running through the door.
The wolf was right behind him. He knocked and he asked and he got the same answer as before, so he huffed and puffed again. The sticks scattered like a dropped box of pick-up sticks and both pigs ran for their third brother's house.
The Brick House
The third pig was in no hurry at all. He laid his bricks one at a time with his trowel and his brothers stopped by to tease him for taking so long. He didn't mind. He just kept stacking until he had a house with a real chimney and a sturdy door.
When the wolf came to the door he got the same answer as always. "Not by the hair of my chinny chin chin!" So he huffed and puffed. He huffed and puffed some more. He puffed until his cheeks ached and his legs wobbled, and the house didn't budge. All three pigs watched from the window and tried very hard not to laugh.
Down the Chimney
The wolf wasn't ready to give up. He climbed onto the roof and peered down the chimney. What he didn't know was that the pigs had a big fire roaring in the fireplace.
Down the chimney he slid and landed beside the fire with a YEOW! The tip of his tail was singed and smoking. He shot out the door and into the woods and he never bothered the pigs again.
Three Brick Houses
With the wolf gone for good all three pigs ended up in sturdy brick houses which the third little pig helped his brothers build. But each made their homes their own.. since they're very different pigs the houses came out very different too.
The gardener pig's cottage has roses by the path and vegetables in neat rows. A vine climbs over the arched door.
The lumberjack pig's house has a wide front porch and an apple orchard all around it. There's always a ladder leaning on one of the trees.
The builder pig's house is the grandest of the three, with a rock garden and a pond and a waterfall he built himself.
And they all lived happily ever after.
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A Few Fun Facts
In the version Joseph Jacobs published in 1890 the wolf doesn't give up after the house. He tries to lure the third pig to a turnip field and then to an apple tree and then to a fair, and the pig outsmarts him every time.
At the fair the pig hides in a butter churn that rolls down the hill and scares the wolf so badly he runs home. In that version the wolf slides down the chimney into the pot, but I gave him a singed tail instead because it's funnier and nobody has to feel bad.