Create an adorable frog themed toss game with recycled cardboard, paint, and a few pipe cleaners for a game packed with froggy fun! Work on creativity and fine motor skills with this one-of-a-kind frog game for your preschooler.
Here’s how to make this Frog Game.
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There’s something very fun about learning about frogs with preschoolers. The way they hop, the way they croak, and honestly how important there are to discovering a healthy environment.
Our featured themed for the Weekly Virtual Book Club for Kids is FROGS! We chose the book The Wide-Mouthed Frog.
The Wide-Mouthed Frog (A Pop-Up Book)
by Keith Faulkner
The books follow the journey in a swamp through a frog with a wide mouth that he loves to use. It’s a flip book so it’s also quite animated to read with your child. The frog is interested in the eating habits of other creatures found in the great outdoors–that is until he comes upon a big green one with lots of teeth who finds wide-mouthed frogs a delicious meal.
It’s a storybook your little one will want to read again and again until they can read on their own.
Frog Themed Toss Game for Preschoolers
Here’s a fun game to go along with the Wide Mouthed Frog from the story.
Materials for Frog Themed Toss Game
- Recycled Cardboard Box or Cereal Box
- Scissors
- Paint
- Paintbrush
- Pipe Cleaners
- Googly Eyes
- Glitter Paint Tube
- Marker
- Tape
For even more froggy fun, print out these Frog Life Cycle Worksheets!
Directions for Frog Themed Toss Game
1. To start have your child draw a frog outline on the backside of a recycled cereal box. For younger children, you can draw the outline with them and talk about the parts of a frog.
2. Use the scissors to cut the frog out from the cereal box.
3. Then have your child use a paintbrush to paint the frog green.
4. Use Black paint to create the eyes of the frog at the top. For younger preschoolers, you could do the outline and then have them fill in the area with the paint.
5. Then use the same black paint to outline the frog’s main body area.
6. Use black paint to create a mouth for the frog. This will also get cut open so leave space between the bottom of the frog and the mouth, about an inch.
7. My daughter added a little fun to hear frog by adding some purple hearts to the top of the mouth. She also added white to the eyes to give it a bit more life.
8. For extra sparkle you can use a glitter paint tube to add an outline around the frog on the eyes and mouth and where your child wants to add a little detail.
9. Now it’s time to take this Frog Craft into a game for your preschooler.
We always tend to have a few Amazon boxes around the house so we found one to use at the box to catch all of the flying bugs that the frog will catch in this game.
This is an adult task with the scissors, use caution and cut an opening into the box.
10. Once the hole is cut for the frog’s mouth you can also carefully cut along the line of your frog’s mouth to create a wide-mouthed frog. Then you can gently fold it so that it will stay up because it was created from recycled cardboard.
You can also slightly bend the feet of the frog so that it rests on the bottom of the box. Yes, I know 🙂 our frog should have had two more legs, my daughter helped to design this one and frankly, I had to leave it. Next time I would have two little legs below the mouth too.
Create your own Pipe Cleaner Bugs
These adorable Pipe Cleaner Bugs were so easy to make! And they fly really well as you play the Frog Themed Toss Game. Here’s how you and your preschooler can make them.
First start off by taking one pipe cleaner and forming a wing by looping it around at the end and twisting it. Then take the pipe cleaner and wrap around the end of pencil or paintbrush about 6 times, leaving about one inch left at the end. Finally, you twist the final end to create the second wing, making sure not to leave any sharp ends from the pipe cleaner.
Once the pipe cleaner insect is formed you can add on Adhesive Googly Eyes directed to the pipe cleaner they stick surprisingly pretty well. You could also use hot glue for reinforcement if needed.
Time to Play your Frog Themed Toss Game!
To play the game you set up the frog box on a slight slant, we propped it up using the side of the box from below. It makes it easier for the kids to make it into the frog’s wide mouth!
You can toss the pipe cleaner bugs by hand or you can add an extra challenge by using a launching device! We used the end of our paintbrush to launch our BUGS! You could use a popsicle stick or pencils, whatever you used to wrap around when you were making it so it fits around it. Just added a whole other element of challenge and fun to this frog themed toss game!
Frog Themed Books for Preschoolers
Here are some additional frog books that we enjoyed reading with this Frog Game.
Be sure to check out below the additional frog themed activities to go along with our featured Weekly Virtual Book Club for Kids book The Wide-Mouthed Frog (A Pop-Up Book) by Keith Faulkner.
Frog Activities for Preschoolers
- Lilypad Letters Alphabet Game – School Tine Snippets
- Frog Hop Number Line Math Game for Kids – Mama Smiles
- Simple Pond Sensory Bin for Toddlers- Toddler Approved Frog Life Cycle Game – Rainy Day Mum
- Princess & the Frog Play Dough Kit – Sugar, Spice & Glitter
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Lily Pad Hop – Toddler Approved
- Frog Themed Toss Game – The Educators’ Spin On It {You’re Here}
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