Ingredients
- Two circles cut out of cardboard (regular photocopying paper is too thin and flimsy), with the two holes for fingers also cut out before the lesson.
- Glue to glue these together
- Crayons, pencils or markers to draw the appropriate body parts
Procedures
- Show the kids the finished product, introduce the frog, chat with the kids
- Show the kids the smaller circle, show how you decorated it.
- Give out the pencils / markers.
- Give out the small circles, decorate it with the kids.
- Give out the bigger circle, decorate it, if appropriate.
- Collect the pencils.
- Show the kids how to glue one on top of the other. For the younger kids, it might be a good idea to draw a small cross on the top of the bigger circle, to signal where the kids should put the glue.
- Give out the glue sticks. Kids glue their circles together.
- Glue the additional body parts, when appropriate.
- Collect the glue sticks.
- Play
Why we like it
- It is super easy! These frogs here, in the picture, were produced for a child (a huge Frog Fan), rather than with a child, and that is why I went a bit crazy with the eyes but there are the simpler versions of it)
- These two circles can become many many things: a frog, a bear, a cat, a dog, a monkey, a rabbit or a snowman, with little adaptations.
- The task does involve a lot of pre-cutting but the rest can be done by the kids during the lesson.
- Once the toys are ready, they can be used to play, as any other puppets with all the structures that the kids are familiar with and with those that match the topic of the lesson, at the very least, ‘Hello’, ‘My name is’, ‘I like…and you?’ and it is always great when you can maximise production.
Happy teaching!