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May 1, 2013

Frog Life Cycle Sensory Bin

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My kids have been obsessed with learning about the life cycle of a frog.  We have read lots of books about frogs and even tried to find a way to raise our own tadpoles.   That didn’t work out so we decided to create our own small world Frog Life Cycle Sensory Bin!

The Frog Life Cycle

The kids love it and have been having a blast playing with the frogspawn, tadpoles, and frogs! 

Life Cycle of a Frog Supplies

To make the sensory bin we searched to see what we could find around the house for our frog pond.

Here’s what we came up with…

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1.  Water beads for the frogspawn

2.  Pony beads tied with plastic cord for the tadpoles

3.  Foam cut out into plant shapes for the pond section

4.  Plastic frogs and fake plants and rocks

5.  Tree stump blocks (that we collected when we got our Christmas tree) for the logs

Life Cycle of a Frog Sensory Bin

The kids set it up themselves in our water table.  They set up a water section for the frogspawn and tadpoles…

Life Cycle for a Frog Kids Activity

and a dry land section where the frogs lived!

I loved to see how much about the frog life cycle they remembered from our library books!  As soon as they saw some of the colored frogs they exclaimed they were poisonous.

The Frog Life Cycle Activity

They have spent hours playing together with the frog life cycle small world sensory bin. 

I’d definitely recommend making one, especially if you can’t find tadpoles in your area!

For more fun Frog Life Cycle Activities check out:

Frog Life Cycle Books for Kids

Art Activity for Children: Frog Foot Prints

Frog Jump: Measurement and Gross Motor Activity

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About Megan Sheakoski

Megan is the creator of Coffee Cups and Crayons, a blog full of simple fun and learning. She believes that kids’ activities don’t have to be complicated to be fun and that learning is better with play.

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Comments

  1. Jackie Higgins says

    May 2, 2013 at 7:52 am

    I love this idea! We have a water table that mostly gets ignored. I think this will encourage the boys to take a second look at it!!

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    • Megan Sheakoski says

      May 3, 2013 at 3:15 pm

      It is the perfect container for all three of mine to play around together, I should have been using it more too!

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  2. playspotter says

    May 3, 2013 at 4:24 pm

    Fantastic article – great ideas! We have tadpoles in our pond at the moment and my wee girl, age 2 and a half has been trying to understand the life cycle. Think I confused her a bit by referring to the Very Hungry Caterpillar and she now expects the tadpoles to turn into butterflies! I maybe need a life cycle sensory bin like you have!

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    • Megan Sheakoski says

      May 4, 2013 at 2:44 pm

      Ooooh! So fun! I bet she would love to make a life cycle sensory bin then. (And I know what you mean about confusing them…I have said things like that before too!)

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  3. steph says

    May 3, 2013 at 9:40 pm

    Love your blog! I saw the pond sensory bin on the Play Group and tweaked it for the frog life cycle. Now you post this! Awesome! I already planned to do a mini lesson in my son’s 3’s class and my other son’s 4’s class. I found frog life cycle models (eggs, tadpole, 2 legs, frog)on amazon for$8.00.

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    • Megan Sheakoski says

      May 4, 2013 at 2:43 pm

      Steph that’s awesome! I’ll have to check it out!

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  4. maryanne @ mama smiles says

    May 9, 2013 at 12:08 am

    What a great sensory bin!

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