Five green and speckled frogs sat on a speckled log, eating some most delicious bugs. Yum, yum! I loved that song growing up! And I loved learning about frogs!

Today, I want to introduce you to Freddy the Frog and make the cutest frog craft for preschoolers with you.

The story about Freddy the Frog and this craft is from the frog unit in my Summer Camp at Home Little Kid Edition resource. Summer Camp at Home consists of six themes spanning one week each. Your coursebook includes a five-part story for each theme, daily hands-on activities, and beautiful printables to extend the play and learning. It gives you and your children an easy summer filled with nature and beautiful memories. 

Let’s check out the story and one of the activities from the unit about frogs!

Free Frog Story & Life Cycle Printables

Before we begin our frog craft for preschoolers, I want to share with you the cute and educational 5-part story about Freddy the Frog. This whimsical story will teach your little one all about a frog’s life cycle. Enter your email below to be instantly sent this story as well as a life cycle activity.

Frog Craft for Preschoolers

Our super fun frog craft for preschoolers is from Part 3 of the Freddy the Frog story: What Frogs Eat. You can read the full story in the freebie linked above, but here’s a little sneak peek so we can set the stage for this craft:

Now that Freddy was a frog, he had one food that he loved more than anything else. Freddy loved flies! He especially loved CATCHING flies! Frogs have a very special tongue. A frog’s tongue is attached to the front of its mouth, not to the back of the mouth like a human’s tongue. It is also very strong and very sticky. When Freddy saw a fly, he would shoot out that sticky tongue, wrap it around the unsuspecting fly, and pop it right down his throat without even chewing.

Today, we will get to make that fly-loving frog and catch our own flies! 

For this craft, you will need the following:

• a paper plate
• red and black construction paper
• paint or markers
• googly eyes (optional)

To get started, have your child paint a paper plate green. We did both sides because my kiddos love painting, but you don’t have to. He also liked to use lots and lots of paint to make sure there was no plate showing, so it did take some time to dry. 

While it was drying, we decided to make our long frog tongue. Cut out a long, thin tongue from red construction paper and curl it by rolling it around a pencil. Glue or tape this to the top of the paper plate fold.

Once your green plate is dry, fold it in half. Your child can use markers to make eyes or glue on some googly eyes. Our googly eyes had a peel-and-stick backing, which was super helpful, so double-check, yours might, too!

You now have a green frog head with a great big mouth and tongue!

Next, let’s make some flies for our frog to eat! Take the black construction paper and have your child rip off small squares, squishing these up into balls. This is wonderful for strengthening little hands and using fine motor skills. It was also a great activity where I could just sit back and let them explore. Kids love to rip up paper and squish it into little balls! We had lots of different-sized flies to work with. 

Finally, the really fun part was taking turns throwing ten flies into the frog’s mouth as the second person tried to snap shut the frog’s mouth, catching the flies. Sometimes, we threw one at a time, and other times, we threw a few at a time! My son even liked to use the frog’s mouth to pick up the ones that he missed off the ground.

Keep track of how many flies are caught. Who can catch the most flies? Compare numbers as you play this game, focusing on math words like more, less, and equal.

This activity was so enjoyable from start to finish, and I loved how it offered so many built-in benefits. We enjoyed a delightful and educational story about Freddy the Frog, then learned all about the frog life cycle and their favorite foods. Next, we made a fun frog craft for preschoolers, which helped us strengthen our fine motor skills and hand muscles. To wrap it up, we played an interactive game with our new craft, focusing on hand-eye coordination, counting, and basic math skills. It’s a fantastic activity for kids of all ages!

If you’d like to keep the fun learning going, be sure to check out Summer Camp at Home for more stories and activities like this one!

Summer Camp at Home is available in two versions—for big kids and for little kids! At the heart of each version are the same beautiful stories. These six-week nature programs have just the right amount of structure and whimsy. They give you and your children an easy summer filled with nature and beautiful memories.

Get your copy of Summer Camp at Home and make this the best summer for your kiddos!

Summer Camp at Home: Little Kid Edition

https://shop.howweelearn.com/products/summer-camp-at-home

Thank you so much for reading, sweet friend!

xo
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