Feature Friday

"Five Green Speckled Frogs" Masks

Act out "Five Green Speckled Frogs" by using frog masks. I recently conducted a workshop in Dillon, SC and the 4K teachers made frog masks to go along with the fingerplay/song. The masks are made from felt and foam. A small piece of elastic is attached to both sides of the mask. The teachers had a ball making them and I know the children will LOVE being the 5 frogs! A BIG thanks to the 4K teachers in Dillon!

Five green speckled frogs

Frog masks can be made any color. Just change the song.

Sat on a speckled log

Eating some most delicious bugs...yum yum!

One jumped into the pool

Where it was nice and cool
Then there were four green speckled frogs.

Continue counting down. The last line would be:

One green speckled frog
Sat on a speckled log
Eating some most delicious bugs...yum yum!
He jumped into the pool

Where it was nice and cool

Then there were no green speckled frogs.

Workshop Wednesday

Jump Froggie Jump

(Small Group)

Materials: blue butcher paper; colored frogs (bean bag or plastic); and dice or spinner with colors

Directions: Make a game board out of blue butcher paper.  Make a square grid on the paper.  Mark one end Start and the other Finish line.  Place a set of colored frogs on the start line along with a colored dice (made from a mailing box 6 X 6).  Have children take turns rolling the dice.  As each child rolls the dice they identify that color and then find the frog that matches that color and moves the frog one square ahead.  See if they can predict which frog will win. 

Extension: Add a number dice. Children roll both the color and number. Add paper and make a chart illustrating the children's predictions.

Taken from Learning & Teaching Preschool