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
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
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 😀
carol says
They look amazing, so much fun to make things to play with.
mermaid says
omg they are so cute!!!!
*made me smile this morning 🙂
Cerys @ Rainy Day Mum says
Yeah 😀 We like making people smile.
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
Coombemill says
how cool are these!
Cerys @ Rainy Day Mum says
Thank you 😀
Anna @ The Imagination Tree says
Soooooooo cute! Love them!
Cerys @ Rainy Day Mum says
Thank you so much 😀 J loves playing with them
Kristin @ Preschool Universe says
VERY 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
I 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
Oh 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
These 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
They are SO cute and I love that maths song.
maryanne @ mama smiles says
These are so cute! Looks like J really enjoyed painting them, too!
Thanks for sharing with Learning Laboratory at Mama Smiles =)
Hannah says
My playschool children would love these!
http://likemamalikedaughter.blogspot.com/2012/05/enchanted-childhood-playschool-april.html
Thowe says
Love your site
moh @real recipe says
They look amazing, so much fun to make things to play with.
I would definitely use it to make some.