Materials
Tagboard
pencils
scissors
I Took My Frog to the Library by Eric Kimmel
paper lunch bags
green, red, black, and white construction paper
glue
Instructions
1. Ahead of time, use tagboard to make patterns for bulging frog eyes. Cut
tagboard into strips that are rounded on the bottom (see illustration). Then
cut tagboard into three different sizes of circles for the eyes and spots.
2. Make your own paper bag frog puppet ahead of time (see following
directions) and use it to introduce Children's Book Week.
3. Read I Took My Frog to the Library to the children.
4. Explain to the children that they are going to make their own frog puppets.
5. Give each child a piece of green, red, black, and white paper. Let them take
turns tracing the tagboard pattern (rounded strip) on the green paper. Ask
them to trace the rounded strip twice and cut them out.
6. Then let them take turns tracing the larger circles on white paper and the
smaller circles on black paper (two of each). Cut them out.
7. Help the children make bulging eyes by folding the straight end under the
rounded part of the green paper strips.
8. Encourage the children to glue the white circles on each eye, and then the
black circles onto the white circles (see illustration).
9. Give each child a paper lunch bag. Ask them to lay them flat with the folded
bottom facing up. The flap made by the bottom fold will be the mouth.
10. Show the children where to glue the eyes onto the folded base of the bag.
11. Help them carefully cut out a long piece of red paper for the tongue.
12. Ask the children to glue the red tongue inside the flap.
13. Encourage them to cut out small green spots to glue on the bag to decorate
the frog's body.
