Frog Activities for Kindergarten
Introduce your kindergartners to the world of frogs through intriguing hands-on crafts and games. Frog activities keep restless pupils busy, while they're learning about the interesting life cycle of a frog. Whether you're making a frog bank craft or playing a game of leap frog, you'll only need exuberant kindergartners and a few supplies to get started.
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Frog Bank
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Create a frog bank with an empty formula or coffee can. Peel the labels off and clean the can with soap and water. Have the kindergartners tear green tissue paper into strips. Mix one part water and three parts glue, and let students paint the green strips onto the can and lid with a paintbrush. Allow the can to dry. Help students draw a mouth and nose on the front of the can with a black marker. Give each child two white polystyrene balls to make into the frog's eyeballs. Glue the eyeballs to the top of the lid and use small pieces of black pipe cleaner to create eyelashes. Help students cut a small slit in the lid to make the can a "froggy bank." For more decoration, the students can take a piece of brown felt to make the frog a tongue and put a small plastic bug on the end of the tongue. Glue it to the mouth on the can.
Pin the Fly on the Tongue
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Draw a picture of a frog with his tongue hanging out on a large poster board and hang it on the wall. Print several pictures of bugs and write each student's name on a bug. Put double-sided tape on the back of each bug. Blindfold a pupil and spin her three times. Tell her she must pin the bug on the frog's tongue. Repeat with all students. The player who pins his bug closest to the correct spot wins the game.
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Frog Puppet
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Purchase several small white paper sacks and tell your students to color them green. The smooth side of the bag is the back, and the side with the flap is the front of the puppet. Help your students cut out two green circles about 2 inches in diameter, two white circles a little smaller and two black circles smaller than the white circles. Layer the black, white and green circles to create the frog's eyes. The students can glue the eyes on the flap of the paper sack. Help them cut a small red strip from construction paper and glue it under the flap to represent the frog's tongue. Tell the students to draw a small nose under the frog's eyes with black marker. Students slip their hands into the bag to create a talking frog puppet.
Musical Lily Pads
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Cut several lily pads from green construction paper and place them randomly on the floor. Put out one less lily pad than you have children. Play music and tell the students to hop from lily pad to lily pad. When the music stops, each child must stand on a lily pad. The pupil who does not have a lily pad is out of the game. Remove a lily pad and keep playing. The last player standing on a lily pad wins the game.
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