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
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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
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
The Monko says
May 2, 2012 at 8:32 amthat 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
May 2, 2012 at 8:36 amLol – that was one of the reasons why we used a green egg box 😀
carol says
May 2, 2012 at 8:52 amThey look amazing, so much fun to make things to play with.
mermaid says
May 2, 2012 at 10:07 amomg they are so cute!!!!
*made me smile this morning 🙂
Cerys @ Rainy Day Mum says
May 2, 2012 at 10:57 pmYeah 😀 We like making people smile.
sunnymama says
May 2, 2012 at 10:14 amWhat 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
May 2, 2012 at 10:58 pmI’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
Coombemill says
May 2, 2012 at 1:57 pmhow cool are these!
Cerys @ Rainy Day Mum says
May 2, 2012 at 11:01 pmThank you 😀
Anna @ The Imagination Tree says
May 2, 2012 at 5:33 pmSoooooooo cute! Love them!
Cerys @ Rainy Day Mum says
May 2, 2012 at 11:02 pmThank you so much 😀 J loves playing with them
Kristin @ Preschool Universe says
May 2, 2012 at 8:34 pmVERY cute….I’m glad you reminded me of that song because we love it, and haven’t sung it in a while 😉
Cerys @ Rainy Day Mum says
May 2, 2012 at 11:02 pmI wish we could have a break from singing it but I’m hoping that once the frogs have gone from the garden we can find another song to sing
crystal@growingajeweledrose says
May 3, 2012 at 12:08 amOh Cerys, I love these! They are so stinkin cute! What a fun way to bring the song to life for J 🙂
Kristen S- Craft Gossip says
May 3, 2012 at 1:09 amThese little guys, are adorable! They really come to life! Just posted about them on Craft Gossip! I found you through Red Ted Art’s Blog linky…
http://lessonplans.craftgossip.com/?p=5947
pinkoddy says
May 4, 2012 at 10:03 amThey are SO cute and I love that maths song.
maryanne @ mama smiles says
May 7, 2012 at 8:35 pmThese are so cute! Looks like J really enjoyed painting them, too!
Thanks for sharing with Learning Laboratory at Mama Smiles =)
Hannah says
May 8, 2012 at 2:28 amMy playschool children would love these!
http://likemamalikedaughter.blogspot.com/2012/05/enchanted-childhood-playschool-april.html
Thowe says
February 3, 2013 at 7:43 pmLove your site
moh @real recipe says
September 7, 2017 at 9:11 amThey look amazing, so much fun to make things to play with.
I would definitely use it to make some.