1, 2, 3! Hop, hop hop! This leaping frog exercise is an excellent easy and enjoyable option to apply counting with little ones. Studying by way of play is an excellent option to apply numbers and counting, in addition to growing a toddler’s confidence and independence. This exercise is simple to make, and affords just a few variations of counting apply to maintain little ones engaged! First, let’s put every little thing along with some arts and crafts, then we’ll get into learn how to play!
Supplies
- Inexperienced pom poms, just a few completely different sizes
- Googly eyes
- Inexperienced pipe cleaner
- Inexperienced marker
- Inexperienced and blue development paper
- One thing round to hint – we used 2” and 1” lids
- Glue stick
- White glue
Steps
For the Lily Pads
Use one thing round to hint as many lily pads as you want to make onto a inexperienced sheet of development paper. The extra lily pads you make, the upper you’ll be able to rely throughout the sport! We used a 2” lid to make ten lily pads. Draw a wedge onto every circle and minimize them out.
With a inexperienced marker, write the numbers 1 by way of 10 on one aspect of the lily pads, one quantity on every lily pad.
In case you’d like to brighten your frog pond, you may make some flowers so as to add to your lily pads! We made our flowers by tracing a 1” lid, then marked and minimize into the circle to make eight equal petals. We added a small yellow circle to the center as properly.
Frog
To make the frog’s legs, bend a inexperienced pipe cleaner in half. Make just a little tail on the bend that can help the physique, after which bend each side of the pipe cleaner to make legs with a bend within the knee. Bend the remainder of the pipe cleaner to make webbed toes.
Glue a big inexperienced pom pom to a smaller pom pom to make the physique and tail, and glue it to the pipe cleaner. Glue two googly eyes onto two small pom poms and connect them to the highest of the physique. Glue on just a little mouth minimize out from purple development paper.
Now your frog is able to play within the lily pad pond!
Methods To Play
1. Place the lily pads quantity aspect up onto a blue piece of development paper to make a pond. Ensure that the lily pads are so as from 1-10. Have your baby hop the frog from lily pad to lily pad whereas counting. Have them attempt going backwards too!
2. Combine up the lily pads so the numbers are all around the pond. Hop the frog across the pond going from quantity to quantity so as. Little ones must rely and seek for the subsequent quantity!
3. Choose one of many lily pads and place it quantity aspect up within the pond. Hop the frog on that lily pad the proper variety of occasions. Your baby would possibly prefer to attempt hopping themselves whereas counting to the quantity on the lily pad!
4. Choose one of many lily pads and place it quantity aspect up by the pond. Then rely and place that variety of lily pads into the pond, quantity aspect down. Then the frog can hop from lily pad to lily pad whereas counting.
We hope you may have a good time working towards counting and hopping with this straightforward lily pad and leaping frog counting exercise! There are many methods to apply counting by way of play – see for those who and your baby can discover new methods to rely and play with this exercise set! Hop, hop, hop! Completely satisfied hopping and counting!
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