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Free Frog Theme Playdough Activities and Printable

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Spring is here and what better way to celebrate than with Pond Play Dough! This adorable frogs on a lily pad printable craft will keep your preschooler or kindergartner engaged for hours! The frog and lily pad pictures include tadpoles and frogs, as well as elements of a perfect little froggy habitat.

free frog pond printable set for play dough

Materials needed for the Free Frog Pond Play Dough Set:

Paper and/or card stock
Laminating Pouches or Clear Contact Paper
Laminator

Just print on card stock and laminate for durability. If you don’t have a laminator, clear contact paper is heavy duty and amazing. You can also opt to just print and play until those frogs wear out.

If you’re into saving that colored ink, print in black and white on coloured construction paper.

It’s absolutely no secret that we love play dough in this house! It is the one thing that we play with almost every day.

I love incorporating play dough into the lessons we are learning in school or other things that we are talking about.

This week we’re learning about frogs and their habitat, so I decided to make a frog pond printable play dough set to share with you.

You can add a 3-D element to the set by cutting a slit in the lily pads and placing the very bottom of the frog through it. Fold over the bottom section of the frog and tape it to the lily pad.

Now you have a frog sitting on a green lily pad.

frog pond printable play dough set

We also added short skewers to the backs of the flies and dragonflies to help them “fly.” It’s lots of fun to have the frogs hop to catch their food. You can make it educational by talking about food chains and webs. Or just keep it all fun!

We talked about the different elements of the frog’s habitat while placing the lily pads and cattails around the pond. The set includes both tadpoles and full-grown frogs, which lends itself nicely to a discussion about the frog life cycle.

I’d love to hear your ideas for other sets! Please let me know in the comments what playdough activities you would like to see for your little ones!

free frog play dough printable

Benefits of Interactive Play

Hauling out the play dough can be cringe-worthy when we think about the mess it often creates (carpet + play dough = one giant headache). HOWEVER, the benefits of this type of interactive play and learning far outweigh those pesky little dropped pieces.

Get out the tarp or tablecloth as needed, or better yet take this project outside if possible. Then, roll up your sleeves for some amazing hands-on learning while playing with play dough.

Children gain dexterity and motor skills in playdough activities as they shape, flatten, roll, poke and who-knows-what-else with the play dough!

Conversations while creating develop language skills as well as the specialized vocabulary associated with the Frog Theme.

The preschool life cycle of a frog printable encourages creativity, problem solving, visual discrimination, fine motor development, and so much more!

The best part is that it’s wrapped up in a little package of…PLAY! Your young learner won’t see this as “School Work,” but an opportunity to have some fun.

Extension Activities

Play dough activities can also be used as a springboard for other learning within the same theme.

  • Incorporate the theme into all areas of your lesson plans with guided reading using Arnold Lobel’s “Frog and Toad are Friends” or other books from the same series
  • Create a packet of “Frog and Toad are Friends” printable activities to work on throughout the unit
  • Focus on reading comprehension by using the frog printables and play dough to retell the story
  • Incorporate Science by delving further into frog eggs and egg masses, tadpole hatches, the life cycle of a frog, or the anatomy of a frog
  • Print the pictures in black and white and encourage children to decorate the frogs and color the habitat any way they choose
  • Include other opportunities to develop fine motor skills, like hiding frog eggs (small beads) in the play dough for children to find and extract with tweezers

More Frog Theme Activities You’ll Love!

This frog life-cycle board game is a great way to introduce kids to the stages of the frog life cycle. Picture based so it is great for all ages.
These 3 frog freebies for kindergarten are a great addition to any frog unit!
Free Frog Life Cycle activity for kindergarten. Learn the stages of the frog life cycle: eggs, tadpole, froglet, and frog with these simple reading activity for your life cycle science unit.

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  1. Sandra says

    June 22, 2019 at 6:01 am

    Thank you

    Reply
  2. Carolyn says

    April 19, 2017 at 8:07 pm

    OMG! This is brilliant! Thanks so much for this free resource!

    Reply
  3. Cmarston says

    May 21, 2015 at 9:16 pm

    I am unable to print your frog pond habitat. It just takes me to the purchase box and says I’ve purchased it, even though it’s free ,but it never gives me an option to print it.

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    • Kim says

      May 22, 2015 at 10:22 am

      You should receive two e-mails. The first will be a confirmation of the order and the second will contain the links to download. Many times the links go to your spam folder.

      Reply
  4. Betty Larks says

    March 23, 2015 at 11:39 am

    There is no link to click on.

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    • Betty Larks says

      March 23, 2015 at 1:34 pm

      Thank you.

      Reply
      • Kim says

        March 23, 2015 at 3:13 pm

        You’re welcome!

  5. Cindy Coffey says

    March 1, 2015 at 2:09 am

    Please send me the free frog pond dough printable. Love your ideas and bright colors.
    Thanks, Cindy

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    • Kim says

      March 1, 2015 at 5:46 pm

      If you click through the links you can download the resource. 🙂

      Reply

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