Children practice cutting skills by creating their own frogs in this project. Use a standard-sized paper plate for the head of the frog. Have children paint their plates green.
While the plates are drying, give each student a piece of paper on which two 2-inch circles, for the eyes, and one 8-inch-wide half circle, for the mouth, have been drawn. Help children cut out the circles and glue them to the dried paper plates. Then let children add details to the eyes and face after the glue has dried. Create a hat by attaching each frog face to a paper band, sized to fit snugly around each child's head.
For a fun gross motor activity, create a pool using a large hula-hoop. Select five students to be frogs. While the class sings the song, the frogs act it out and provide the sound effects ("yum, yum and glub, glub"). When it is each frog's turn to jump into the pool, have the child leap into the hula-hoop and sit down. At the end of the song all five frogs will say "glub, glub," and leap out of the pool.
After students are familiar with traditional version of the song, encourage them to change it up by asking them to choose alternative descriptive words. For example, instead of five green and speckled frogs, say five red and polka-dotted frogs. Start by writing the song on chart paper or poster board, but leave the descriptive words blank. On strips of paper, write down the students' ideas and tape them to the poster in the appropriate spots. Have the students re-read the song with the new words. After trying out different ideas, let students write and illustrate their favorite version.
Create a Frogs and Flies File Folder Game. Make a game board by drawing a pond in the center. Draw five logs at each end of the pond that lead to the center of the pond. For a spinner, draw a circle divided into five sections. Number each section by drawing flies to show the amounts. Glue this to a blank spinner from a craft store. To play, students take turns spinning and moving their counters up the logs. The first to jump into the pool (the middle of the pond) wins.