Leap Year Frogs
Every four years we get to leap into an extra day! Celebrate Leap Day with these fun leaping frogs! Once you've made your little froggies, it's a hop, skip, and jump to making up tons of games!
- Large round buttons, one for the back of each frog and one to make them jump
- Scissors
- Our downloadable PDF of frogs, or cut out pictures of frogs (frogs printed out on stiffer paper work best)
- Glue dots
- Markers, crayons, other coloring items
- A paper plate or something to act as the "lily pad"
Download our PDF of frogs and color them in. You can also use other small, cut out pictures of frogs if you like. Frogs that are on heavier, stiffer paper work best for this project.
Cut out your colored-in and decorated froggies!
Put a glue dot on the bottom back of each frog. The glue dot should NOT be in the center -- it should allow your button to be aligned with the bottom of your frog.
Stick your round button onto the glue dot so that the edge touches the bottom of the frog cutout. Once again, this project won't work if the button is in the center of the cutout!
Once you're done making your frogs, it's time to make them "leap!" Take a large button and press it down on the bottom edge of your frog, like in the picture. The top button will force the bottom button to shoot out, and your frog will jump! It's a lot like a tiddlywink.
Just press down...
... And he leaps! Use a paper plate as a "lily pad," and try to see if you can get your froggie to land on it!
You can also have contests with your friends to see who can get their frog to leap the furthest, with the most accuracy, the highest, etc.
- Large round buttons, one for the back of each frog and one to make them jump
- Scissors
- Our downloadable PDF of frogs, or cut out pictures of frogs (frogs printed out on stiffer paper work best)
- Glue dots
- Markers, crayons, other coloring items
- A paper plate or something to act as the "lily pad"
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