 | Paint the front of your paper bag green (we don't have many paints in our
house -- just red, yellow, blue, black and white. We mix all of our
own colors which is loads of fun for the girls). Set aside to dry.
OR |
| As an alternative to painting: trace the body of the paper bag and
the head of the paper bag onto green construction paper. Cut it out
and glue it to the bag.
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| Print the template pieces.
 | Color the largest circles and arms green (or whatever color your frog
is going to be |
| Color the long rectangle (ish) piece red (FRONT AND BACK!) |
| Color the smallest circles black |
| Cut out the pieces
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| Put one of the green circles in front of you. Glue the medium sized
(white circle) onto it. Glue the small (black) circle onto that.
Repeat with the other set of circles. Now you have two eyes!
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| Take the red long rectangle and wrap it around a pencil to give it a
curl. This will be the tongue.
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| By this time, your bag should be dry.
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| Glue the eyes onto the top of the HEAD. You
can see from the photo above that the eyes stick up over the top of the
head.
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| OPTIONAL: draw two tiny black lines (nostrils) onto the head.
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| Lift the FLAP and glue the tongue
underneath.
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| Glue the arms into the SIDE FLAP. When
you do this, glue or tape them onto the top of the flap not the
bottom. That way when you're using the puppet, it's arms will reach
forward in a hugging motion instead of bending way backwards. Now, I
give these instructions to make sure I've given you as much info as I can --
use your judgement when balancing whether to share the directions with the
kids or let them get creative on their own
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| OPTIONAL: You can personalize your basic frog puppet in a lot of
ways. By this point the Age 2 thru 4 group will be happy (going
further may make the project too time consuming for their young attention
spans), but older children might like to extend the craft. Here are just a few
ideas for them:
| put a construction paper or gift wrap bowtie on the frog |
| Draw marker or paint speckles/warts/dots on your frog's body |
| Take a small black pom pom. Attach some wax paper wings and
small googly eyes to make a fly. Glue it to the frog's tongue. |
| Glue something into the frog's hand
OR |
| Put a small piece of velcro on the frog's hand. Put Velcro on
numerous objects. That allows you to change the frog's
"props" during a puppet show. If you chose to do this,
you'll want to back the frog's arm with a thin piece of cardboard (old
cereal box) so it doesn't flop around. |
| Glue some construction paper froggy feet to the bottom of the bag
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