Booklet

• Help preschoolers recreate the story with a series of illustrations. Draw the story, or copy the story from illustrations found in a book or downloaded from online. Let preschoolers put the illustrations in order. Add a colorful cover from construction paper and staple “The Three Bears” story booklet together. Preschoolers can decorate their covers with crayons and stickers. Add the actual story to the booklet, but substitute the name of the preschooler for either Goldilocks or Baby Bear. Let the preschooler choose.
  
  

Stuff a Bear

• Children of any age like stuffed bears. Let the preschool children stuff their own. Transfer a bear design to flannel or purchase fabric with a bear design already imprinted on it. Prepare the bears beforehand by cutting them out and sewing them together, leaving a 4 inch open seam for stuffing. Use fiberfill for stuffing. Use helpers to show the preschool children how to push the fiberfill into their bears, a little at a time. They can use the eraser end of an unsharpened pencil to push the stuffing in place. Helpers sew the openings closed once the bears are stuffed.
  
  Alternatively, make a less-lasting stuffed bear out of paper. Cut a front and back bear shape from paper, leaving ½ all around the bear. Help the preschoolers glue around the edges of the wrong sides to put the front and back together. Leave a 3 inch opening at the bottom. Help preschoolers stuff the paper bear with cotton balls. Glue opening closed.
  
  

Figures

• Preschool children can make figures from the story. Let them cut out the characters you’ve already printed on cardstock. If the characters are in outline black and white format, let the preschoolers color the figures. Cut out 3 to 5 inch high and wide triangles stands, depending upon the size of the figures. Cut the top 1/4th from the tip of the triangles. Fold up the bottom inch of the triangles to create a stand. Tape or glue the top of the triangles to the back of the figures so the figures will stand alone.
  
  Create flannel boards for the children from 12 by 14 inch cardboard. Cover one side with flannel. Besides the figures from the story, have the preschoolers cut out the outline of a house, table, chair and bed. Back all figures with a strip of felt. The children can use the flannel board to “tell” the story.
  
  

Match It

• Preschoolers like to fit one thing to another. Create a craft that helps them match the different characters of “The Three Bears” story. Draw a picture or copy a picture you find from a book or online depicting a scene from the story that includes all four characters -- Papa Bear, Momma Bear, Baby Bear and Goldilocks. Also give the preschoolers a page with all the characters. Have them cut out the characters from the sheet and match them to the characters depicted in the story scene page. Let them glue the characters in place.
  
  Another option is to add self-stick tabs to the backs of the individual characters and the characters from the story in the scene. The preschoolers can then match the characters with those in the scene and take them off again.