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Five Little Speckled Frogs Fingerplay

May 1, 2012 by Sheryl Cooper

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The Five Little Speckled Frogs fingerplay is a favorite with our toddlers and preschoolers. You might remember it from our fingerplay collection. Its cute lyrics combined with the hand motions and counting down from 5 to 1 are fun for circle time or transition time.

Young children tend to get more involved in fingerplays when props are used. I’ve seen several different frog props used for Five Little Speckled Frogs, but I wanted something that the children could take home.

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5 Green and Speckled Frogs

 

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While searching the internet, I found the perfect Five Green Frogs printables from Picklebums.

 

Preparing the puppets:

I made enough copies so each child could have a set of 5 frogs and placed each set in an envelope, along with 5 popsicle sticks. I glued a copy of the lyrics on the front of each envelope as well.

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Getting the children involved:

As the children arrived at the art table, they found their envelopes and pulled out the contents. I provided scotch tape and they taped a frog to each popsicle stick. (Great 1:1 correspondence activity!)
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Five Little Speckled Frogs Finger Play
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When the sticks were attached, they were put back into their envelopes until circle time.
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Five Little Speckled Frogs Finger Play
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All the frogs came out at circle time. While we sang the fingerplay, one frog went into each envelope until all of them were gone. After enjoying this a few more times at preschool, the children took them home to do with their families.
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Five Little Speckled Frogs Finger Play
 
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More fun ideas for Five Little Speckled Frogs:

  • Have the children paint 5 paper tubes green to make frogs, from Entertaining Monsters.

  • Use egg carton cups to make frogs on a log, from Rainy Day Mum.

  • Print mini-books with fingerplays that start with the letter F, including Five Little Speckled Frogs, from The Measured Mom.

  • Use a splatter paint method when making paper frog props, from Sun Hats and Wellie Boots.

  • Put together a 5 Little Speckled Frogs small world play activity, from The Imagination Tree.

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Materials for your 5 Little Speckled Frogs theme:

 

                            

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5 Green and Speckled Frogs

 

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Filed Under: Literacy, preschool, Preschool Literacy, Toddler Literacy, Toddlers Tagged With: circle time, literacy, music, preschool, teachers, toddlers

About Sheryl Cooper

Sheryl Cooper is the founder of Teaching 2 and 3 Year Olds, a website full of activities for toddlers and preschoolers. She has been teaching this age group for over 20 years and loves to share her passion with teachers, parents, grandparents, and anyone with young children in their lives.

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  1. Debs- Learn with Play @ home

    May 1, 2012 at 8:33 am

    Oh, I just love these printables! We use these ones and her 5 little ducks one too. Great as a classroom resource as well as you’ve shown. Thanks for sharing 🙂

  2. Michelle

    May 1, 2012 at 6:02 pm

    Great idea!! I love using props too!!

  3. katepickle

    May 4, 2012 at 1:06 am

    Looks like great fun.. so glad you enjoyed using the frogs!

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