To create a foam frog, you will need to prepare parts of the frog ahead of time for the children. Using a serrated knife, cut a small wedge out of one side of a Styrofoam ball for the frog’s mouth. Allow the children to paint the outside of the ball green and the inside of the wedge red. If the children are able to use safety scissors, allow them to cut out hands and feet for the frog from green construction paper and a tongue from red construction paper. If the children are not able to use safety scissors, you can cut them all out ahead of time. Allow the children to glue the cut-out pieces onto the foam ball. Then they can glue two googly eyes on the frog's head to finish it.
A paper bag puppet can be made into many animals, including frogs. Each child will need one brown paper lunch bag, two googly eyes, and green construction paper from which to cut out circles for the frog's spots and to cut out arms and legs. Each child will also need red construction paper to cut out a red tongue. Allow the children to glue the pieces on their frogs to make their own puppets.
Another simple puppet requires little preparation on your part. You need only create circles for the pupils of the eyes and nostrils for the nose. You can make these by punching holes in craft foam and using the circles that you punch out. Use black foam for the pupils and orange foam for the nostrils.
Give each child a green potholder. Make sure the potholders have pockets in them for the hand. This is how the children will make their frog puppets' mouths open and close.
Instruct them to fold the potholders in half, corner to corner, so that they each have a folded triangle with the pocket on the bottom outside. Allow the children to glue two large white pompoms onto the top of the potholder to make eyes. Then glue the black circles onto the pompoms for the pupils and the orange circles to the corner for nostrils to finish the puppet.