HALLOWEEN TUBE CRAFT: 5 LITTLE SPECKLED FROGS

Do you remember the nursery rhyme, Five Little Speckled Frogs? Well, these cheeky little frogs have a spooky secret – they’re now the witches’ naughty little companions!

Five little Speckled Frogs, Go on a Halloween Adventure!

Join them on a Halloween adventure as they perch on the witch’s broomstick and zoom through the night sky. But watch out, one by one, the mischievous frogs start tumbling off!

So join me in this Halloween tube frog craft, as we move on to create our five little spooky frogs!

WHATS IN THIS POST!

Introduction to this post.
What’s the connection with frogs and witches?
My Intention for this post.
Link to Easy Inner Tube Frogs, previous activity.
What material to use?
Show resources.
Demo crafting frogs.
Some tips.
Link to Halloween/froggy reading books.
Conclusion.

🐸 FUN FROG FACTS! 🧙

Did you know witches and frogs have been best buds for hundreds of years? In old spooky stories, a witch’s frog was like her magic helper, hopping along beside her and even jumping into her bubbling potion pot!

Frogs are also champion shape-shifters. They start life as tiny wiggly tadpoles and then, like magic, turn into hopping frogs! That is probably why storytellers thought they’d make the perfect, slightly mischievous sidekick for a witch flying around on her broom.

So when our naughty witch’s frogs go hopping off her broom one by one, just remember… they’ve been causing a little Halloween mischief for centuries!

MY INTENTION!

In a previous post, ‘Easy Inner Tube Frogs’, I showed how to craft 5 little speckled frogs that accompany the nursery rhyme, which was filmed for kids’ homework.

So I thought to update the frogs slightly, giving each a spooky appearance and use them as the subject for this Halloween post,

As these particular frogs are a witch’s frogs, they will resemble similar colours or clothing that a witches would wear!

WHAT MATERIAL TO CRAFT THE FROGS

As I used cardboard tubes to make the previous frogs, that’s what I am going to use for our five little naughty frogs!

Cardboard tubes are always plentiful, so you would need to start saving as soon as you can. Also, the inner cardboard tubes of kitchen towels work too, you just have to cut them in half or for smaller frogs in 3 parts.

WHAT YOU NEED FOR THE HALLOWEEN TUBE FROG CRAFT!

RESOURCES

5-7 cardboard tubes(and spares)
Coloured paper, pink (not shown)
Acrylic paints, green/ yellow/pink/orange/black
Brushes/paint plate
Scissors
Black felt-tip pens
Double-sided tape.

LET’S BEGIN OUR TUBE FROGS

5 tubes and draw scarey faces — 1) Grab your 5 tubes. Draw scarey frog faces, with pencil then with black pen.

Cut and fan the back to make spikey hair. Cut a hole at the bottom of each tube. — 2) Once completed snip the back section fan out to make spikey hair, and cut a small hole at the bottom of each tube.

Place frogs on stick to see if they fit on. — 3) Place the tubes onto the Witches broom to see if they fit.

Naughty frog painted — 4) Now paint all frogs in different scarey faces.

Here are 5 painted frogs — 5) Here are the 5 naughty frogs.

Find coloure pipe cleaners to match each frog. — 6) Find the colour pipe cleaners, 4 for each frog.

Twist as shown to make arms and legs. — 7) Twist and fold over in half.

When folded over the loop part Squeeze to make 3 finger hands and feet — 8) Once folded twist again.

So arms and legs look like this. — 9) Squeeze the end part into 3 fingers.

Here are the 5 sets of arms and legs of the frogs. — 10) Here are 5 different frog legs and arms.

Hot glue the arms and legs on each frog — 11) Now get ready to hot glue arms and legs onto each frog.

Cut pieces of the recycled wrap to make the broom head. — 12) Cut this recycled wrap to make the Witches broom head.

Use tape to stick on the broom part — 13) Use double sided tape to stick onto stick

5 frogs flying on the broom. — 14) Once broom is finished add double sided tape along it to stick each frog, and as a final touch cut long spindly pink tongues.

Frogs are provisionally attached so they can drop off. — 15) Here are the frogs as if flying on the broom.

Drop off frog one at a time. — 16) Hold the broom, as you sing the song, you can drop off each frog one at a time.

HERE’S MY TAKE ON THE FROG SONG!

With the same tune as the ♬ nursery rhyme for ‘5 little speckled ♩ frogs’ ♩, change the words to….5 little naughty frogs, sat on a witch’s broom, flying the hallows night away! Glab, Glab, One tumbled off the broom, where there was hardly room. Now there are 4 naughty speckled frogs, Glab Glab! ♩♪♩♬ ♬♩♪♩

Here’s the Five Little Speckled Frogs, Nursery Rhyme, to give you an idea, for those who don’t know it, or forgot how it goes!

SOME TIPS!

SCARY FACES

Draw different faces, with a pencil and rub out a re-draw to get it right.

HOLES AT THE BASE

To sit the tube, or frog, onto the witch’s stick comfortably, cut out a circular hole, either half or whole, this is to attach the frog onto the stick, but be able to easily pull it of knock it off the broom.

PAINTING THE FROGS

Hold the tube by inserting 2 fingers inside the tube, so you can turn it around as you paint it.
Paint the main body in green, then add different colours for effect.

ARMS AND LEGS

Twist 2 pipe cleaners, fold over in half and twist again. Keep a loop at the bottom to mould the 3-finger hands and feet. Then, when you sit the frog on the broom, twist the arms and legs to hold them on the broom or on each other.

ADDING ON PARTS

Have all arms and legs ready, so once you add hot wax, add the arms higher than the legs, hold firmly until the parts stay on the body.
You can add long, spindly pink tongues, run the scissors along thin strips of pink paper, and they will curl, then glue them on with a tiny bit of wax.

THE BROOM

Find a long stick from your garden or park, long enough to hold 5 frogs on it. Then cut to size some recycled wrap for the broom head and stick it on one end of the stick.
Roll it round and round and keep sticking it down. Then add a few long strips of double-sided tape to the length of the stick. This will help hold the frogs in place so you can also remove them one by one.

HOLDING THE BROOM

Hold the broomstick in the air, float it around and sing the song, and knock off each frog, so it drops down.

LET’S NOT FORGET A GOOD READ!

Alongside all our fun crafts and creative activities, let’s not forget the joy of a good book!

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TO CONCLUDE.

In this post, as Halloween is nearly upon us, once again, I thought it would be fun to put a twist on something kids already know, like the 5 little speckled frogs.

My take is to make cheeky, naughty little frogs, have them sitting on a witch’s broom, instead of a speckled log, and getting up to no good!

In this scenario, they tumble off the broom, not jumping into the pool, and to give them scary features, keeping it in line with Halloween.

It’s a fun activity, with a bit of painting involved, great for kids to focus and address fine motor skills, counting backward, and you would be using your throw-out, up-cycling creatively!