By crafting paper plate frogs, students will trace and cut their own hands to use as frog feet. They can paint the paper plates green and use green construction paper for their handprints. Providing several sizes of paper plates and various buttons for eyes allows for diversity among the frog crafts. By creating and assembling the paper plate frogs with their own handprint cutouts, children create a frog craft that has a personal touch.
Making fingerprint frogs will give young children a chance to get their hands dirty and have fun with paint. Children can cut out their two handprints or several footprints from light green paper and arrange them to look like lily pads. By dipping their fingertips in dark green paint and pressing them onto the paper, students can create little fingerprint frogs on the lily pads. They can add frog features with markers once the paint dries.
By cutting sponges to look like different sized frog feet, students can use them to stamp in green paint and print onto a sheet of butcher paper. Once the class finishes the frog feet collage, they can paint and decorate boxes to look like frogs, attach thick ribbon for tongues and legs, and pin on the paint-filled sponges as feet to create box frogs. These custom frog crafts can adorn a shelf in the classroom or act out scenes in the puppet theater.
Students can experience a unique frog feature, webbed feet, by painting with plastic sandwich bags on their hands. Teachers can tie the bag around students' wrists and ask them to make patterns in paint while keeping their fingers together. Taping a large sheet of butcher paper to a fence on the playground creates a canvas for students to paint with vinyl sticky frog feet toys. As the children dip the sticky toys in paint and fling them on the paper, they will have fun while learning that some frogs have sticky pads on their feet to help them climb.