Welcome to week 9 of ‘Toddler Tuesdays’. You can find more of our ‘Toddler Tuesdays’ activities here, we hope you are enjoying them. This week’s activity is based on the children’s rhyme 5 little speckled frogs, however we will only be using 3. If you are not familiar with the rhyme the words are -
3 little speckled frogs
sat 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 2 more speckled frogs
glub, glub.
Each time through the song 1 more frog jumps into the pond until there are no more speckled frogs.
You will need -
- 3 popsticks or straws.
- Sticky tape.
- A copy of our free printable frogs and log which can be found here. You will need to cut out these items.
- Crayons.
- A large piece of paper, A3, scrapbook page or newspaper.
- Glue stick
Instructions -
Set out all of the items at the kitchen table or toddler table ready for your child. Assist your child to stick a pop stick or straw to the back of each of the frogs so that they can jump off the log and into the pond. Assist your child to glue the log across the mid section of their page. Encourage your child to ‘colour’ a pond at the bottom of the page. Use appropriate key word phrases to encourage your child along the way. Once completed sing the rhyme through with your child and encourage them to have their frogs also jump into the pond.
Focus -
This activity promotes fine motor skills and is a great opportunity for language development. You may use key phrases like, ‘stick it’, ‘turn over’, ‘green frog‘. Remember that even when your child isn’t responding to your comments you are imprinting that language and correct grammar on their brain for retrieval when they developmentally get to that stage. If your child is already using some of those key words themselves then add an additional word to your phrase like, ‘big brown log’. This rhyme is a great opportunity to introduce counting, 1, 2, 3. It’s also a fun and happy rhyme so you might encourage discussion about the frogs being happy that they are now in the nice cool pool.
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