One of J’s favourite songs to sing is Five Little Speckled Frogs so inspired by these cute little egg carton bunnies that Glittering Muffins made for Easter I got cutting out some egg carton sections to make Five little Speckled Frog Craft sitting on a speckled log to bring the song to life for us at play-times.
What you need to make 5 little Speckled Frog Craft
An egg carton with at least 10 spaces in it
Scissors
Sticky Tape
Cardboard Tube (ours was a kitchen paper tube)
Green, Yellow, Pink and brown paint
Goggly Eyes
How you make Five little Speckled Frog Craft
As J is only 32 months I cut out the egg carton into 10 egg cups to make the five frogs. I found them quite tricky to cut I don’t know whether it’s the sort of egg cartons that we have but I think even older children may have a problem with cutting them. Once cut out I set up our painting station with some brown, green and yellow paint which J then used to paint the outside of the frogs.
J painting on of the egg carton cups
We Painted all of the outsides of the egg cartons first and then put them to dry – as when I showed J how they would fit together he declared that we had to paint their mouths as well. There was much amusement as we tried to work out what colour a frogs mouth was and decided that we would go with what colour was inside Mummy’s mouth – so I had to open my mouth wide to work out the colour (we’ve visited the dentist recently and this is now one of his things).
The speckled frog bodies drying
Whilst the cartons dried we painted a speckled log brown and yellow for the frogs to sit on and then returned to painting inside (and some of the outside) of the speckled frogs pink for their mouths.
J painting the speckled log
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Once all of the frogs were dry we joined them together with some sticky tape as J wanted to play with them now (I’ve since gone back and glued them using white glue so they are more sturdy) and added some goggly eyes to them. I then set up a pond with a sheet of blue paper and a green background and we put the log and the frogs on the log (if you squish the log the frogs will stand on the log).
One of the Speckled frogs
Cerys Parker
Cerys is a marine biologist, environmental educator, high school teacher and mum. Realising that life doesn’t have to be put on hold and you don’t just have to survive whilst the kids are young she shares ideas to inspire you to LIVE with the kids, with activities to do together, recipes to cook and enjoy and family travel to make memories to last a lifetime.
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Coombemill says
how cool are these!
Cerys @ Rainy Day Mum says
Thank you 😀
sunnymama says
What a fun idea and so cute! It would be lovely if you’d like to share this with our spring carnival. 🙂 http://sunnydaytodaymama.blogspot.co.uk/2012/02/all-year-round-blog-carnival-spring.html
Cerys @ Rainy Day Mum says
I’ve added a few more posts today. I’m really looking forward to the summer carnival and hope to get some inspiration once the weather turns better of course
mermaid says
omg they are so cute!!!!
*made me smile this morning 🙂
Cerys @ Rainy Day Mum says
Yeah 😀 We like making people smile.
carol says
They look amazing, so much fun to make things to play with.
The Monko says
that is so cute. Goblin would love this – although there is no guarantee that the egg boxes would get painted and not just his feet
Cerys @ Rainy Day Mum says
Lol – that was one of the reasons why we used a green egg box 😀