Craft Activities for Kids: Green and Speckled Frogs
Reading stories aloud together is a great way to educate at home. The bonding experience builds vocabulary, improves comprehension, and promotes speech development. Adding a craft builds on story time learning; practicing motor skills and creativity while reminding the child of themes and words from the story. It becomes active engagement (in the same way that adding the movement of Bendy Bookworm’s yoga poses do) in order to benefit the child’s optimal ability to learn through play.
Try this craft (Ideal for ages 4-9 years old). Pair it with “Luna’s Map” by Danielle Fisher for a Story Time and Craft Activity.
Cognitive Skills: vocabulary, pattern recognition, and visual processing (practiced during the Story Time)
Motor Skills: coloring, cutting, and glueing (practiced during the craft)
Emotional Skills: friendship, courage, independence (learned in “Luna’s Map”)
Materials:
Color Markers, Crayons, or Washable Paint
Green and Red Construction Paper or White Paper
1 Toilet Paper Rolls
Pencil and Scissors
Glue
Googley Eyes
Step One:
*Color the toilet paper roll by using color markers, crayons, or washable paint.
I added “speckles” using dots of fabric paint but you can glue down cut out circles OR just have an un-speckled frog!
*When the paint has dried: fold in one end, open it, and cut along the fold. Fold in the other end and leave it folded in.
Step Two:
*Cut out 4 frog legs from the green construction paper (or white and then color in). You can use a similar shape as mine (shown in the picture) or cut out your own variation of frog legs!
*Cut a spiral “frog tongue” from the red construction paper (or white and then color in). You can use a similar shape as mine (shown in the picture), roll up a strip of paper, or cut out your own variation of a frog’s tongue.
Step Three:
*Glue it all together!