Learning Activity
Using game play to look at how frogs move and what they eat. Discuss and look at real life pictures of frogs in their natural habitat, ask which children have seen frogs before. Do any of them have frogs living in their garden? Do the children know that frog’s eat all sorts of flies and hibernate for the winter?
You will need
Green card
White paper
Coloured pens/collage material
Party blower whistles OR red paper.
Sticky tape, scissors.
• Photocopy the frog body onto the green card and cut out.
• Photocopy the flies and cut out individually.
• Scrunch up a small piece of sticky tape and put it gently onto the back of each fly.
• If possible use party blower whistles to recreate the actions of Frog’s tongue. Cut out a hole in Frog’s mouth area and slot the plastic blower end through. Tape carefully into place. ALTERNATIVELY
• Cut a strip of red paper approx. 1” X 12” cut the end so that it forms a ‘fork’ shape.
• Roll the paper tongue around a pencil or pen so that when you remove it the coil stays in a curl. Stick the flat end to Frog’s mouth area.
• Colour or collage the frog body and fold in half so that it can stand.
Make frog eye masks as pictured above by cutting out 2 green circles and gluing on 2 white inner eye and black pupil circles. Staple or glue the bottom of each eye to a green headband measured to the individual child’s head.
GAME PLAY VARIATIONS
Play by blowing the whistle at the flies and try to ‘catch’ one by making it stick to the end of the whistle. If you are using the paper tongue ask the child to use their finger to unravel the tongue and catch a fly.
This Idea could prove extremely messy but great fun ~ Have a large piece of card drawn and cut out into the shape of a cloud.
Draw on some flies in a variety of sizes and award each one an amount.
In turns let each child dip the end of an outstretched party blower into a pot of paint. Let the paper curl back up again.
Then see if they can be frogs and catch a fly on the cloud.
The resulting paint splodge can would be an indication of how good their aim is and how many points they scored on the fly!
Or play by using the blowers to blow paper flies along the ground.
