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Fred's Big Journey: A Frog's Tale · Printable Activities and Crafts

Fred's Big Journey: A Frog's Tale · Printable Activities and Crafts

Materials:

  • printer
  • white or green paper
  • coloring tools
  • scissors
  • glue stick

Preparation:
Review all alphabet and printable materials and prepare a colorful display.

Fred's Big Journey storybook coloring book
Fred's Big Journey storybook coloring book

letter f frog printable activitiees
Letter F Frog activities

water lilly coloring page
Water lily coloring page

frog coloring pages
Frog coloring pages

Printable Frog Crafts
Frog crafts

Activity: Review or present information about frogs and toads.
Tell the children they are going read and listen to a great story about a frog called Fred, but first, you are going to review or discuss some fun facts about frogs and toads.

First, ask the children what they know about frogs and log the information.

Activity: Video - Fred's Big Journey - A Frog's Tale

Fred's Big Journey - A frog digital storybook
A delightful short story about Fred a frog looking for a new place to live. Find out how he finally finds a perfect home.

Read and/or listen to the story. Here are story discussion suggestions:

  1. The story includes other animals: a turtle, rabbit, squirrel and worm, etc. Discuss in which sequence did Fred the Frog meet them (ordinal numbers practice). Who did he meet first, second, third, etc.
  2. Discuss where these animals live: the rabbits live in a warren, the squirrel lives in the tree, the worm lives under the ground, etc. What kind of habitat could this be?  A forest? by a pond?
  3. Why do you think Fred settles on the living on the pond on the lily pad?

Companion Storybook Coloring Book:

Print the 10-page companion coloring book and its text transcript. These can be pre-assembled for the younger kids, Decorative color tape can be used to cover the staples and serve as binding. Suggestion: Place a blank page behind each page before coloring to avoid color bleed, particularly from markers.

Activity:  Art and Crafts

  1. Print this lily pad coloring page and have children draw Fred the Frog in his perfect home - the lily pad or print a frog coloring page, color and cut out and paste over the lily pad.

  2. Print your choice of a printable frog craft and incorporate the alphabet activities.

  3. Craft activity to compare a frog and toad > sensory experience: smooth frog and bumpy toad.


Activity: Alphabet Letter F Frog and incorporate craft activity

  1. Tell the children they are going to make a fun frog project (craft or coloring page activity).
  2. Point to the letter F frog color poster and tell the children the word frog starts with the letter F as well as Fred, the frog's name in the story, and the F sounds like ... Trace the letter F with your finger as you make the sound.
  3. Review other letter F words in the activity worksheet. Ask them if they can think of other things that have that sound.
  4. Include handwriting practice at your discretion.
Take a snack break or free play time

Activity: Hop around like a Frog or Leap frog
To get the children excited have fun hopping/jumping like a frog around the room, at the same time ask the children to say the F sound when they hop. Join the children in the hopping.

Have a great froggy fun day!

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