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It’s a Frog, It’s a Toy, It’s Both!

Art is always fun but when you turn it into a toy, art rocks - or ribbits. To make this frog project, you need two paper plates (approx. 9 inches), a green crayon, string, a bead, pink, black and white construction paper, a hole punch, scissors, stapler and a glue stick.

Cut one of your paper plates in half. Take your second paper plate and fold it in half, do not cut it. Line up the round edges of your plate and staple it in place. You should be able to put your 4 fingers into this “pocket” and place your thumb under the folded plate to open and shut the frog’s mouth.

Using a green crayon, or a craypas, color both sides of the plate.

On your black construction paper, draw two circles which will be the outer eyes for the frog. Cut them out. Draw two smaller circles out of the white construction paper and cut them out. Glue each smaller white circle onto each of the larger black circles. Then glue these onto the top half of your paper plate.

Draw an oval on the pink construction paper and cut it out. This is the frog’s tongue. Open the folded plate, and glue the tongue onto the bottom portion of the plate.

Approximately a half inch from the edge of the plate, use a hole punch to place a hole in the bottom half of the plate. Tie one end of a piece of string onto this hole. The other end of the string needs to be tied to a bead, the heavier the bead, the easier it will be to catch. We used a wooden bead instead of a plastic bead.

With your 4 fingers inside the pocket and your thumb under the folded plate, try and swing the bead out and up into the air. Once the bead is in the air try and catch it inside your frog’s mouth.

Congratulations, your frog project is finished!

To take your art project one step further, you can give your frog more character by giving it glasses around the eyes, or glue on two pom poms for the frog’s nostrils, or paint your bead to make it look like your frog is eating a fly or a bumble bee.

We hope you enjoyed your art project!

Courtesy Art Academy, North Suburban YMCA