The Three Little Pigs - Pocket Packet Version
By Professor Spellbinder

One of my favorite story effects used to be Supreme's (probably Edwin's) Three Little Pigs. It is no longer available, and the Wiz Kids asked my help in restoring the old effect that they had kept under my front porch for the past ten years or so. While I was at it, I designed a new pocket packet version of the effect in Edwin's honor. It's good for hospital bedside shows, or any kind of close-up time with kids.

Effect: You tell the story of The Three Little Pigs and the Big Bad Wolf (we include a variation of the original 1886 version by by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipp just in case you are not familiar with the tale). As you tell the story, you act it out using playing card sized pictures of the pigs and the wolf. My modern version of the story is designed for urban kids who might not know much about straw and twigs, but certainly know about potato chips and plastic. In any case, the wolf disappears, changing places with the last little pig, and ends up in a pot of water, taking a hot bath. Improvements include a much more deceptive switching device than the one Edwin provided so many years ago.

As a bonus, I'll also show you how to make the special stand that you see Wiz Kid Qua-Fiki working on in the photo above, in case you want to make the jumbo stage sized version.

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