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Paper Plate Frog Craft

Learn how to make an easy paper plate frog craft for kids of all ages using basic craft supplies that you may already have at home.
Cook Time30 minutes
Total Time30 minutes
Course: Kids Crafts
Author: Alli Ward

Equipment

Ingredients

Instructions

  • Start by cutting the paper plate in half.
    cut paper plate in half for frog
  • Trace the half paper plate out of the green paper and cut it out.
    cut green paper craft frog
  • Glue the green paper to one side of the paper plate
    glue green paper to paper plate
  • Note that if scissor skills are a challenge, or if your older kids would like to cover the paper plate with green paint, that works too.
    green half circle frog body
  • Cut two half arches out of the other half of the paper plate.
    two white arches for frog eyes
  • Cut a half circle out of the black paper and then slightly smaller than the white half arches for the eyes
    frog crafts for preschoolers black paper eyes mouth
  • Glue the black part of the eyes to the white part of the eyes.
    glue black eyes on white eyes
  • For the pipe cleaner portion of the craft, we used a hot glue gun. You can also use craft glue to attach the pipe cleaner to the outline of each of the eyes.
    glue green pipe cleaner to top of eye
  • Using the scissors, cut off any excess pipe cleaner.
    paper frog eyes
  • Next, glue the frog's mouth to the middle of the green frog's body.
    paper frog craft black mouth
  • Grab one or two of the red pipe cleaners.
    adorable frog crafts glue red pipe cleaner around mouth
  • Glue the pipe cleaner to the outside of the mouth. Depending on the size, you may need a portion of a second pipe cleaner.
    glue frog mouth to paper plate
  • The next step is to attach the frog eyes to the paper plate body. Glue them to the top of the paper plate.
    hot glue eyes to paper plate
  • For the Frog's tongue, fold one red pipe cleaner in half and then bend it into a sort of S shape.
    fold frog tongue out of pipe cleaner
  • The last step is to glue the tongue to the middle of the frog's mouth. Glue the ends of the pipe cleaner to the mouth, so the end of the tongue is the folded side.
    glue pipe cleaner to frog mouth
  • Viola, all the frog pieces create the perfect preschool frog craft.
    frog craft preschool

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