Storytime - Frogs

Toddler

Books: Leap Back Home to Me by Lauren Thompson and Hop Jump by Ellen Stoll Walsh

Songs / Rhymes: “Good Morning”, “Hello, How Are You?”, “Open, Shut Them”, “Little Green Frog” with frog puppet, “Five Green and Speckled Frogs” on the felt board, “I Wiggle My Fingers”, and “The More We Get Together”. 

Craft: Frog Puppets. Materials: green sheets of construction paper, red construction paper tongues, googly eyes, crayons, glue, and tape. The toddlers glued the eyes to the tops of their puppets and then glued the tongue inside its mouth. When they were done, we sang “Little Green Frog” with the puppets.

Preschool

Books: Frog by Louise Spilsbury and Froggy Goes to Camp by Jonathan London. 

Songs / Rhymes: “Welcome to the Library”, “Hello, How Are You?”, “Open, Shut Them”, “Little Green Frog” with frog puppet, “Five Green and Speckled Frogs” on the felt board, “I Wiggle My Fingers”, and “The More We Get Together”. 

Craft: Frog Puppets. Materials: green sheets of construction paper, red construction paper tongues, googly eyes, crayons, glue, and tape. The preschoolers glued the eyes to the tops of their puppets and then glued the tongue inside its mouth. When they were done, we sang “Little Green Frog” with the puppets.

Songs/Rhymes

Little Green Frog

Mmm-ahh! Went the little green frog one day.

Mmm-ahh! Went the little green frog.

Mmm-ahh! Went the little green frog one day.

And the frog went mmm-mmm-ahh!

-- PreschoolEducation.com

Five Green and Speckled Frogs

Five green and speckled frogs

Sitting on a speckled log

Eating some most delicious bugs.

Yum yum!

One jumped into the pool

Where it was nice and cool.

Now there are four green speckled frogs.

--Traditional