Frog Crafts and Learning Activities for Kids

 

Paper Plate Frog Craft for Kids

What you will need: Dinner-sized paper plates, red construction paper, white and green printer paper, green and black paint, and glue.
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What to do:

1. Fold a paper plate in half. Paint the outside green and the inside black. Cut a red tongue from construction paper. Draw feet and legs on green construction paper and cut them out. Draw eyes on white printer paper and cut them out. (Patterns for the feet and eyes are available to members only.)

2. Glue the legs and feet to the bottom of the folded paper plate as shown. Glue the tongue to the inside. Glue the eyes on the top.

You will find fun spelling and reading games to go with this craft in the Educational Crafts section of this site.

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Frog Beanbags - These beanbagS are very easy to make and no sewing is involved.

What you will need: different colors of felt, fun foam shapes, pompoms (optional), googly eyes, hot melt glue gun, tacky glue, scissors, and rice or beans to fill the bean bags.
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What to do:

1. Print out the pattern for the body and legs and cut them out. Use them to cut the shapes from felt.

2. Glue the legs and arms to one of the body shapes as shown in the picture. Glue the other body piece on top of the piece with the legs and arms attached. Leave an opening at the back of the frog.

3. Fill the body with bean, rice, popcorn, or fiberfill. Glue the body closed.

4. You can glue googly eyes to pompoms and then glue the pompoms onto the frog or just glue googly eyes onto the frog without using the pompoms.

5. Decorate the frog with fun foam shapes, beads, pieces of cut up felt, buttons, or anything else you can find.

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Foam Frog

What you will need: foam balls, green paint, green paper, googly eyes, a knife, red fun foam, and glue.
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You can buy 3D foam shapes from Oriental Trading Company. These are not made from Styrofoam. These shapes feel more like rubber, are much sturdier than Styrofoam, and are much easier to paint. Type in 57/2085 in the search box at the top of the page to find them.

What to do:

1. Cut a wedge shape out of the foam ball for the frog's mouth.

2. Paint the outside of the ball green and the mouth red.

3. Print out the frog feet pattern onto green paper and cut them out.

4. Glue the green ball to the feet pattern as shown. Cut out a red tongue from fun foam and glue it in the mouth. To finish, glue on googly eyes.

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 Animal Hand Puppet Craft

What you will need: Construction paper, scissors, glue.
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What to do:

1. Print out the patterns and cut from construction paper, frog body, frog legs,
2. To make the body, fold each end of a piece of construction paper 3 1/2"  towards the center.  You should have a 5" x 9" folded piece of paper.  Use the pattern and cut away the extra paper.  Glue the top and where the paper overlaps together so that it forms an envelope.
3. Glue on the eyes, hands, ears, etc.

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What you will need: Smooth river rocks, heavy duty paper plates (green), green acrylic paint, glue, animal eyes, black markers, and green fun foam.
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What to do:

1. Before class print out the frog legs pattern (available to members only) and cut from green fun foam. Before you cut out the feet make sure the pattern is not too large for the size rocks you have. If the pattern is too small or too large, enlarge it or reduce it before you cut out the feet.

2. Cut the backs off the animal eyes with a wire cutter. In class have the children paint their rocks and the back of their paper plates green. When the paint is dry, glue eyes on the frog, glue the rock on top of the feet and then glue the frog on the plate.  Use a black marker to draw in the mouth and nose, and write "Fully Rely On God!" on the plate.

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"Froggy Goes to School" Paper Doll Activity

This activity goes with the book Froggy Goes to School by Jonathan London.

Children color the frog and then pick the clothes outline that best matches what they are wearing on their first day of school, color the patterns to match what they are wearing, cut them out, and then glue them onto the frog picture.

The pattern for this activity is available to members only on the Educational Crafts for Popular Children's Books

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"Working Frog" Zoo Display Learning Activity - Children pretend to be a zookeepers and keep records of the zoo's animals.

This activity goes with the book Working Frog by Nancy Winslow Parker

What you will need: A large card board box, artificial leaves, blue plastic wrap or blue material, rocks, twigs or branches, clear plastic wrap, tape, paper, pencil, scale, ruler, and scissors.
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What to do:

1. Read the book "Working Frog" by Nancy Winslow Parker. This book is about a frog that is captured and taken to a zoo to work in an exhibit. It is a great book for children to learn about the behind the scene workings of a zoo.

2. Make a frog beanbag above for your habitat. You can let your child be creative and pick any color he would like, make up a make-believe species, and name his frog. Or you can use this project as an activity to learn more about specific frog species. Study different types of frogs and make a frog that looks like one of the frogs you study. You can even make more than one type of frog.

Your child can pretend to capture the frog and bring him to the zoo. Fill out the card with information about his frog like the zookeeper did in the book. Include the place or origin, who caught the frog, and the date. He can also pretend to examine the frog, weigh him, and measure him, and write the information on a card. You can make up your own forms or use the forms available to members only on the Activities and Crafts for Popular Children's Books Page for Members Only.

2. Make a frog exhibit - Find a large box and help your child cut the sides out to look like an aquarium leaving about one inch on all edges. Leave the flaps on the top. Let your child use different materials to make the display. Discuss what would be found in a pond habitat. You can also get books about pond habitats at the library so that you have pictures to work from. When the exhibit is done, place the frog inside. Make a form to be place on the tank with like the one pictured in the book. Include the tank number, temperature, name of the animal and the acquisition number from the first form that was filled out. Also make a feeding table including the date fed, diet, what he ate that day, and any notes about the animal. (This form is available to member only on the Educational Science Activities Page.)

This activity can also be used with live animals. You can create a whole zoo with animals such as hermit crabs, preying mantis, ladybugs, frogs, crickets, worms, caterpillars, gerbils, spiders, etc.

You can also find more activities for this book on the Activities and Crafts for Popular Children's Books Page for Members Only.

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Read it! Read it! Read it! Frog Bookmarks

Encourage your children to read more books about Froggy by Jonathan London and have them use this frog bookmark to keep track of how many books they have read. Have them color a frog each time they read a book about frogs. You can give them a frog prize when they have colored in all three frogs.

To view pictures of the books Jonathan London has written go to his web site. You will also find a printable connect-the-dots work sheet, a hidden picture activity sheet, and which-picture-is-different activity sheet.

The pattern for this bookmark is available to members only. Just click on the link.

Oriental Trading Company has lots of inexpensive, frog-themed novelties and crafts. Just type in "frog" in the search box at the top of the page.

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Folded Frog Desk Calendar Craft

This craft can be used any time of the year and would make great Christmas gifts.

What you will need: Card stock (Heavy Paper), scissors, and colored pencils or highlighter markers.
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What to do:

1. Print out calendar pages that about 2 1/2" square and cut them apart. (A pattern for the calendar pages is available to members.)

2. Cut card stock 4 1/4" wide by 10" and fold it into a triangle shape as shown in the picture. (A pattern is available to members.) Glue the triangle shape together.

3. Draw pictures to glue to the top of the calendar or use stickers, or use pictures from other sources.

4. Glue the calander pages to the triangle shape.

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Frog Math Activities - You can find lots of frog related math activities on the Education Math Crafts and Activities Page

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Other Frog Crafts

"God Will Help Me" Bible Verse Pyramid - This pattern is found in a Bible lesson on The Resource Room. Follow the link.

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Leap into Learning! Bulletin Board Display

This bulletin board is found on the Members Only Section of Danielle's Place.

Go to Educational Crafts and Activities for popular children's book.

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