Early Learning Ideas

Engaging Activities for Little Learners

  • Home
  • Math
  • Literacy
    • Name Activities
    • Alphabet Activities
    • Beginning Sound Activities
    • Rhyming Activities
    • sight word activities
    • Book Ideas
  • Fine Motor
    • Fine Motor
    • Playdough
    • Sensory play
  • Science
  • Dramatic Play
  • Art & Crafts
    • Art Ideas
    • Craft Ideas
  • Themes
  • Seasonal
    • Beginning of School Year
    • Christmas
    • Easter
    • end of school year
    • fall
    • Halloween
    • Mother’s Day
    • spring
    • St. Patrick’s Day
    • summer
    • Thanksgiving
    • Valentine’s Day
    • winter
You are here: Home / Sensory play / Frog Counting Activity

Frog Counting Activity

Pin25K
Share30
Tweet
25K Shares

Young kids will enjoy this frog counting activity. Use my free pattern to make numbered lily pads. Kids will enjoy using the number lily pads in a sensory bin or water table. They are perfect for your frog theme, pond theme, or spring theme unit and lesson plans in preschool or pre-k.


Here is a fun frog counting activity that you can use with your kids at home or in school. I’m going to show you how I easily made numbered lily pads and will give you a few ideas for using them.

Young kids will enjoy this frog counting activity. Use my free printable template to make numbered lily pads. Kids will enjoy using the number lily pads in a sensory bin, water table, or a container filled with water. Perfect for your frog theme, pond theme, or spring theme unit and lesson plans in your preschool or pre-k classroom. I enjoy using these with water beads for sensory paly...fun water play learning activity for kids. Frog life cycle. Frog hands-on learning #preschool #preschoolmath

Lily Pad Supplies

To make these numbered lily pads you will need the following supplies:

  • sheets of green foam
  • scissors
  • green permanent markers

Download the Pattern

If  you need some help making lily pads, you can download a pattern by clicking the link below:

Lily Pad Pattern 

Print and cut out the pattern and then trace it onto the foam.

Young kids will enjoy this frog counting activity. Use my free printable template to make numbered lily pads. Kids will enjoy using the number lily pads in a sensory bin, water table, or a container filled with water. Perfect for your frog theme, pond theme, or spring theme unit and lesson plans in your preschool or pre-k classroom. I enjoy using these with water beads for sensory paly...fun water play learning activity for kids. Frog life cycle. Frog hands-on learning #preschool #preschoolmath

Make Your Lily Pads

After tracing the pattern onto the foam, you can cut out the lily pads.  I used two colors of foam to mix things up a bit.  After cutting out the lily pad, I  outlined the shape with a green sharpie.  You don’t have to do this, but I just think that it makes them look a bit more interesting.

Young kids will enjoy this frog counting activity. Use my free printable template to make numbered lily pads. Kids will enjoy using the number lily pads in a sensory bin, water table, or a container filled with water. Perfect for your frog theme, pond theme, or spring theme unit and lesson plans in your preschool or pre-k classroom. I enjoy using these with water beads for sensory paly...fun water play learning activity for kids. Frog life cycle. Frog hands-on learning #preschool #preschoolmath

I then wrote numerals on one side of the lily pads and made dot patterns on the other side.  Let them sit for awhile so that the sharpie has time to dry thoroughly.

Young kids will enjoy this frog counting activity. Use my free printable template to make numbered lily pads. Kids will enjoy using the number lily pads in a sensory bin, water table, or a container filled with water. Perfect for your frog theme, pond theme, or spring theme unit and lesson plans in your preschool or pre-k classroom. I enjoy using these with water beads for sensory paly...fun water play learning activity for kids. Frog life cycle. Frog hands-on learning #preschool #preschoolmath

Water Beads are the Bomb!

The lily pads, along with a bunch of small plastic frogs, can now be added to a  sensory bin, water table, or a large plastic container filled with water.  This is the perfect time to use my favorite sensory material – water beads!  I love how these babies feel.  Here is my little recycling hint for the water beads….don’t throw them away when you are done with them.   I add the little gems to my containers of flowers. I am really bad about remembering to water my outdoor containers and little beads really help maintain moisture in the containers.  Sorry for that little tangent, but I wanted to share my little tip.

Young kids will enjoy this frog counting activity. Use my free printable template to make numbered lily pads. Kids will enjoy using the number lily pads in a sensory bin, water table, or a container filled with water. Perfect for your frog theme, pond theme, or spring theme unit and lesson plans in your preschool or pre-k classroom. I enjoy using these with water beads for sensory paly...fun water play learning activity for kids. Frog life cycle. Frog hands-on learning #preschool #preschoolmath

Frog Counting Activities

Kids enjoy counting the frogs as they add them to the top of the lily pads.  They enjoy seeing how many frogs can be added to a lily pad before it sinks.  Let kids experiment. We found that completely wet lily pads seemed sink faster.  Wiping the lily pads off with a towel after they were submerged helped them float better again.  Did you make any discoveries?

Young kids will enjoy this frog counting activity. Use my free printable template to make numbered lily pads. Kids will enjoy using the number lily pads in a sensory bin, water table, or a container filled with water. Perfect for your frog theme, pond theme, or spring theme unit and lesson plans in your preschool or pre-k classroom. I enjoy using these with water beads for sensory paly...fun water play learning activity for kids. Frog life cycle. Frog hands-on learning #preschool #preschoolmath

If kids aren’t quite ready for numeral recognition, you can use lily pads with dot patterns.  Kids can duplicate the dot pattern with frogs.  You can also use the frogs and lily pads to practice one-to-one correspondence (no need for numerals or dot patterns on the lily pads for this) and kids can simply place one frog on each of the lily pads.

Young kids will enjoy this frog counting activity. Use my free printable template to make numbered lily pads. Kids will enjoy using the number lily pads in a sensory bin, water table, or a container filled with water. Perfect for your frog theme, pond theme, or spring theme unit and lesson plans in your preschool or pre-k classroom. I enjoy using these with water beads for sensory paly...fun water play learning activity for kids. Frog life cycle. Frog hands-on learning #preschool #preschoolmath

Composing and Decomposing Numbers

With older kids, you can practice composing and decomposing numbers.  Find two different colors of frogs to use so that kids can see how many different combinations of the frogs they can use to make a particular number.

Young kids will enjoy this frog counting activity. Use my free printable template to make numbered lily pads. Kids will enjoy using the number lily pads in a sensory bin, water table, or a container filled with water. Perfect for your frog theme, pond theme, or spring theme unit and lesson plans in your preschool or pre-k classroom. I enjoy using these with water beads for sensory paly...fun water play learning activity for kids. Frog life cycle. Frog hands-on learning #preschool #preschoolmath

No Need For Water

Don’t feel like dealing with a watery mess today?  Don’t worry!…..You can do all of the activities above on a table or on the floor…without water.  You can also use jumping frogs or sling shot frogs with the set.  Kids can try to land a frog on a numbered lily pad as pictured below.  You add some gross motor fun by asking the kids to determine the number on the lily pad and then performing that number of frog jumps.

Young kids will enjoy this frog counting activity. Use my free printable template to make numbered lily pads. Kids will enjoy using the number lily pads in a sensory bin, water table, or a container filled with water. Perfect for your frog theme, pond theme, or spring theme unit and lesson plans in your preschool or pre-k classroom. I enjoy using these with water beads for sensory paly...fun water play learning activity for kids. Frog life cycle. Frog hands-on learning #preschool #preschoolmath

Hopefully I gave you a few ideas.  I’m sure that you can come up with another frog counting activity or two using the lily pads and I would love to hear them.


If you are looking for additional frog activities for your kiddos, check out my frog-themed products in my TPT store.

frog activity bundle frog interactive counting book frog alphabet and beginning sound activity frog math game frog life cycle activity


Below are some items from Amazon that can be used for these froggy activities.   The links below are affiliate links.  If you happen to purchase something from link, there will be no additional cost to you, but a small portion of your purchase will be used towards the cost of maintaining this website.

 

Pin25K
Share30
Tweet
25K Shares
Flower Activities for Kids: Flower Fine Motor Fun
Preschool Movement Songs: 10 Favorite Action Songs for Kids

Comments

  1. Amber says

    June 21, 2016 at 4:27 pm

    Good idea! This is a fun math activity! I will have to try this!

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published.

I accept the Privacy Policy

  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • Pinterest

Looking for something??

Try out these hand strengthening activities for kids. The fun fine motor activities will build and improve strength in little hand muscles. From squeezing activities to hole punch and plunger activities, these ideas to increase hand strength are perfect for preschool, pre-k, kindergarten, occupational therapy classrooms, and at home. From theraputty, toys like squigz, and squirt guns your preschoolers will love these ideas. Check them out today.
Use these free printable nature scavenger hunt books to encourage kids to write, draw, and read while exploring their world. Perfect for pre-k, preschool or kindergarten age kids. Use the free printables in the classroom, on the playground, during nature walks or hikes, on camping trips, in the backyard, or during summer camp. Use this emergent reader for your plant and seeds theme, spring theme, and pond theme unit and lesson plans. #preschool #preschoolactivities
Alphabet activities such as making letter collages or using letter mats are a great hands-on way to teach letter identification and reinforce letter-sounds. Here are over 200 material ideas that you can use for your collages or letter mats. A printable reference list or art and other materials is included. Better than worksheets, these are perfect hands-on activity for your preschool and pre-k classroom or lesson plans. Your young children will love this sensory learning opportunity. #preachool

Available in the Store

Kids love these hole punch activities. Use the printables to build fine motor skills, for hand strengthening, and to improve hand-eye coordination in a fun and exciting way. Perfect for your preschool, pre-k, kindergarten, special education and occupational therapy classroom. The printables include shapes and many themes and seasonal printables to use during spring, summer, winter, and fall. #finemotor #finemotorskills #preschool
Use these 11 different printable name puzzles with your preschoolers for name and literacy activities. Find ideas for the whole year! Perfect for your preschool or kindergarten classroom, or at-home learning or homeschool. Teach your kids to spell their names, construct their names, and the beginning steps to writing their names with these hands-on activities. Make learning fun in fall, winter, spring, & fall with themes from pumpkin, Thanksgiving, caterpillar, snowman, and many more!
There are so many ways that your kids can work on name practice with these editable name activity mats. Perfect for early childhood, preschool, and pre-k classroom, this is a fun way to work on name recognition, the alphabet, letter sounds, spelling their names, handwriting practice, fine motor skills...etc.. You can even include pictures. Use for back to school, the beginning of the school year, an all about me theme unit or lesson plans. #preschool #nameactivities #backtoschool
Use these 1-20 number activity mats to help your kids in preschool, pre-k and kindergarten learn counting, number recognition, one-to-one correspondence, and number sense.  The mats are a great multi-sensory tool that your kids will love. There are so many ways to explore numbers on just one page. Use playdough to form numerals, trace the dotted numbers, represent the number with finger-counting cards, ten frame, and build the number with counting cubes. #preschoolmath #prekmath #kindergarten
Use these CVC Beginning Sound Clip cards to help your kids hear and see the beginning sounds in words. They will love this hands-on early literacy activity...perfect for teaching early literacy concepts in your preschool, pre-k, or kindergarten classroom. 17 word families are included. Looking for ideas for teaching rhyming, letter sounds, phonemic awareness, and phonological awareness? These activities are perfect for your literacy centers as independent and small group activities.
These rhyming clip cards will help your kids see and hear rhymes in simple CVC words. Kids love clipping clothespins on the rhyming words in this activity. Perfect for small group or independent activities in your preschool, pre-k, kindergarten, or SPED classroom. An engaging way to teach rhyming, early literacy concepts, and phonological awareness to young children. #rhymingactivities

Search by Category

Free ABC Clip Cards
  • Contact
  • About Me
  • Archive
  • FAQ
  • Disclosures
  • Privacy Policy
  • Blog

Copyright © 2021 · Early Learning Ideas by Jennifer Hier