Age Group

Infant/Toddler
Preschool

Supplies

none needed

Description

Use finger play or let children act out the "Five Little Speckled Frogs" rhyme. Have five children sit on a strip of tape on the floor. Let one "frog" jump into the pool until the end of the poem.   (If you have more than 5 children, start the poem at that number and then count down from there).

Five Little Speckled Frogs

Five little speckled frogs, (Hold five fingers "frog" on top of your other arm "log.")
Sitting on a hollow log,
Eating the most delicious bugs. Yum! Yum!
One jumped into the pool, (jump a finger off the log into the pool)
Where it was nice and cool.
Now there are how many frogs? FOUR! (Hold up four fingers)

[Continue poem with 4, 3, 2 frogs]

One little speckled frog,
Sitting on a hollow log,
Eating the most delicious bugs. Yum! Yum!
It jumped into the pool,
Where it was nice and cool.
Now there are how many frogs? NONE!

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