Your little one might like to try hopping themselves while counting to the number on the lily pad!Ĥ. Hop the frog on that lily pad the correct number of times. Select one of the lily pads and place it number side up in the pond. Little ones will have to count and search for the next number!ģ. Hop the frog around the pond going from number to number in order. Mix up the lily pads so the numbers are all over the pond. Have your little one hop the frog from lily pad to lily pad while counting. Make sure the lily pads are in order from 1-10. Place the lily pads number side up onto a blue piece of construction paper to make a pond. Now your frog is ready to play in the lily pad pond! Ways To Playġ. Glue on a little mouth cut out from red construction paper. Glue two googly eyes onto two small pom poms and attach them to the top of the body. Glue a large green pom pom to a smaller pom pom to make the body and tail, and glue it to the pipe cleaner. Bend the rest of the pipe cleaner to make webbed feet. Make a little tail at the bend that will support the body, and then bend both sides of the pipe cleaner to make legs with a bend in the knee. To make the frog’s legs, bend a green pipe cleaner in half. We added a small yellow circle to the middle as well.
If you’d like to decorate your frog pond, you can make some flowers to add to your lily pads! We made our flowers by tracing a 1” lid, then marked and cut into the circle to make eight equal petals. With a green marker, write the numbers 1 through 10 on one side of the lily pads, one number on each lily pad. Draw a wedge onto each circle and cut them out. The more lily pads you make, the higher you can count during the game! We used a 2” lid to make ten lily pads. Use something circular to trace as many lily pads as you would like to make onto a green sheet of construction paper.
This activity is straightforward to make, and offers a few variations of counting practice to keep little ones engaged! First, let’s put everything together with some arts and crafts, then we’ll get into how to play! Materials Learning through play is a wonderful way to practice numbers and counting, as well as developing a child’s confidence and independence.
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