Letter F Tub
We put together a tub with various items that start with F. Little Bit and Friend explored the bucket and talked about each word listening for the F sound.
Items in the F tub:
- various size letter Fs
- four and five
Frog Pond Play
We played with pretend frogs in 4 different ways. Check out my post about our frog ponds.
Frog Books and Activities
Hop Jump by Ellen Stoll Walsh
This is a fun book about a frog that wants to dance not jump and hop. After read we practiced our frog hop and checked to see who could jump the farthest.
I found this fun game at the Dollar Store (sweet!) that is all about jumping frogs. Little Bit and Friend loved making the frogs jump.
999 Frogs Wake Up
This is a cute book about a sleepy frog. The books does not include counting but you could create your own counting game with this book.
Frog and Fly by Jeff Mack
Frog and Fly is like a comic book split into six parts. After reading the story Little Bit tried her hand at eating like a frog. We used small toy insects and sticky slap toys. The sticky slap toys I found were in the shape of a lizard, I think the sticky hands would of words better but the lizard did the trick this time.
Little Bit loved pretending to be a frog with a sticky tongue.
Five Green and Speckled Frogs
*the words in this video are not the exact words from the book*
We read the book and then played the song from YouTube that is listed above. As the song played Little Bit used the frogs and log I made to act out the song.
I created 5 frogs and placed them on popcycle sticks, then used a paper towel roll as a log. The frog fit into the small holes I cut until they were ready to jump into the pool. This was an easy and simple way to act out the game and very cute.
I hope you enjoyed reading about the fun we had as we learned and played with frogs. There are so many great ideas for playing with frogs, below are a few sites that have great ideas for playing with frogs.
Coffee Cups and Crayons has a great post about jumping like a frog.
Walking By the Way has a great resource for counting with frogs.
Activity Village has a printable available for Five Green and Speckled Frogs.
There is are many different Frog Boards for Preschoolers on Pinterest.