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PONDS, RIVERS & LAKES THEME

CRAFTS:

Aquarium
Take 2 paper plates and cut the inner circle out. Tape blue cellophane to on to the inside of each plate. Glue or tape fish and seaweed to inside and then tape outside paper plates together.

Bobbing Frogs
Take old corks and color them with green crayons. Then take a green pipe cleaner and wrap it around the cork, twist it, then bend the long ends into frog shaped legs. Take your frog in tub, to the lake, or even to the swimming pool.

Bean Bag Frogs
Cut green felt out in the shape of a double sided frog, glue together with hot glue, leaving an opening to fill with sand or beans or popcorn or whatever. then glue up hole, decorate the top side to look like a frog (add eyes, mouth etc...)You can paint sewing stitches around edges of frog to look like it has been sewn.

Circle Fish
Cut out a 6" circle from construction paper and glue to a piece of light blue construction paper. Cut a triangle from the same color or a contrasting color and attach to the back of the circle for a tail. Draw eye, mouth, gills, fins, a fish line with a hook and worm and whatever else you want.

Cork Frogs
Take corks & color them green with crayon or marker. Then take a green pipe cleaner & wrap it around the cork, twist it, then bend the long ends into frog shaped legs. A string that had been tied to the pipe cleaner can be used to pull the floatable frog through water.

Fish
Take bubble wrap and cut out two fish shapes and glue both pieces together leaving an opening to stuff. Fill the fish with colored tissue paper and then seal the opening. Hang these from the ceiling and you have a room full of beautiful rainbow fish!

Flashy Fish
Have children glue oval shaped tissue paper and foil pieces onto a white construction. paper fish shape. Attach a black dot sticker to resemble the eye. Punch a hole near the mouth of the fish. Put a paper clip through the hole in the mouth then attach to the rope.To display, suspend a length of rope from your ceiling, then attach your fish like you would on a stringer.

Fantastic Turtle/frog/fish Shakers
You'll need: a clean, clear plastic bottle with a screw top blue or green food coloring water vegetable oil white or colored plastic bottle aluminum foil scissors glue masking tape.
Fill the clear bottle about three quarters full with water. Add a few drops of food coloring. Now add a small quantity of vegetable oil. From the other bottle, cut out fish, turtle or frog shapes, making them small enough to fit into the first bottle. Make balls and other shapes with foil. Put all these shapes in the oil-and-water bottle. Put the top back on the bottle and secure it with tape and glue to prevent leaks. SHAKE!! 

Fish Mural
Cut fish shapes out of white construction paper. Decorate the shapes with crayons or felt-tip markers. Help the children glue their fish shapes onto a piece of butcher paper. Add twisted green crepe-paper streamers for seaweed. Hang the butcher paper on a wall and cover it with blue cellophane to make an underwater scene.

Jumping Frogs
Take a green circle and fold not quite in half. Don't fold all the way down. Then add two white ovals for eyes on top of the fold. Add a dot in the middle and for a tongue glue a half-oval shape to the bottom of the top flap. Then add green accordion strips for legs.

Paper Bowl Turtles
Turn bowl upside down and paint green, let dry. Cut out front and back feet from brown construction paper. Staple to bowl. Cut out head with neck and draw on face, staple to bowl.

Paper Bag Fish
Lay a plain paper bag down flat. Leave the bottom folded up and fold in the corners of the bottom of the bag and staple in place to form the fishes snout. Loosely stuff the sack with scrap paper or whatever you have. Close the end of the bag with a rubber band. Slide it up a couple of inches and spread out the end to make the tail. Let the children paint the bag with watercolors or tempera paint any way they want. Add paper or googly eyes if the children haven't already painted on eyes. Some times we have attached these to a piece of yarn like a fish on a string. We have also added a straw to the yarn for a fishing pole.

Paper Plate Frog Craft
Materials: 9 inch paper plate, green construction paper (or white paper if colored green), 
glue
What to Do: Color paper plate green. Cut out frog legs - imagine the letter L, only make it a little puffier, kinda like you used to draw "bubble letters" when you were a teenager. Color the legs green if you used white paper instead of construction paper. Cut out legs. Draw a few misshaped black circles on the legs. Cut out 2 oval shapes from green construction paper, or color white ovals. Color a black circle at one end of the oval. These are the frogs eyes. Glue eyes onto plate, and glue legs onto plate. (cut out legs should be about 4 inches long, and 4 inches across. Make sure about 2 inches of the leg is glued onto plate.
Glued legs should face this way on plate: __| |__ Draw a mouth on the frog like this: ////////

Plate Fish
Make a fish out of paper plate. Or cut out fish shape out of cardboard and let children color, paint and decorate their fish.

Small Aquatic Life Painting
Supplies: Blue construction paper or Kraft paper, Washable paint (any colors you like-- especially brown & green), paint brushes, Plastic toy fishes, turtles, aquarium plants, stones-- anything that could be found in a river, lake, or pond
Children can spread paint onto the items, and use them to make an imprint on the paper. You could do this as a group mural, on a large piece of paper, or as individual projects.

Stuffed Fish 
Cut large fish pattern from two pieces of colored cellophane & punch holes around edge. Stuff with small pieces of shiny paper & "sew" around the edge with ribbon. OR cut out two fish shapes from grocery sacks & stuff with newspaper. Decorate or paint.

Stuffed Fish Mobile
Materials: newspapers; recycled wrapping paper; crayons; scissors; a stapler or one stapler for each leader (with lots of staples); string or yarn; coat hangers. What to do: Cut fish shapes out of the wrapping paper, enough so that each child has two. Help your group to tear the newspaper into pieces of about three inches square. They should then crumple up each piece to use it as stuffing.  The children can then take their two fish and decorate them with eyes, mouth and scales. Staple each child's fish around the edges, leaving the back half of the fish open for stuffing. The kids can then use the crumpled newspaper to stuff the fish. Once they are finished, staple the rest of the way around. Tie a knot at one end of your string, and staple it to the middle of the fish's back. To turn this craft into a mobile, have the kids make several smaller fish and tie them onto a coat hanger. Caution! Adults must supervise all stapling. Take care that no Beavers staple fingers inadvertently.

Stained Glass Fish
Materials: wax paper 9"x12", liquid starch, paintbrush,black crayon,tissue paper squares,construction paper, scissors and glue
Use a black crayon to draw a large fish shape onto the wax paper. Cut out the fish shape and paint it with the liquid starch. Cover the fish with tissue paper "scales" overlapping as desired, adding starch as needed for the pieces to stick. Let dry. Glue on construction paper details, such as eyes, mouth or fins. Hang the fish in a sunny window.

Stuffed Fish
Take 2 pieces of construction paper (white if you would prefer to let the kids color them themselves & colored paper for another look) cut out both of them into fish shapes. Staple them all the way around except for the tail end. Let the kids stuff them with crumpled newspaper till they are completely filled, then staple the tail end together.

Styrofoam Tray Fish Tank
Materials:
Cleaned Styrofoam trays
Clear Plastic Wrap
Tape
Glue
Scissors
Colored Paper
Crayons
Sand
Have Children cut out Fish and Plant shapes from colored paper and color them. Glue fish and plants to inside of the tray. Glue sand below the fish. Let dry. Wrap the tray with plastic wrap and tape closed on the back side.Variation: Use round Styrofoam plates.Tell the kids they are peeking from the port hole of a submarine! Use the blue tinted plastic wrap for a really neat effect! 

Stuffed Frogs
Cut two frogs from construction paper. Children can draw on features. Staple around the frog leaving an open space. Children can stuff them with cotton and staple the opening closed. 

Triangle Fish
Cut a 9" X 12" piece of construction paper diagonally from corner to corner. Now you have triangle to make two fish. Cut a muffin paper in quarters. Glue one quarter to the tail, one quarter to the top near the right angle and one quarter to the middle of the bottom ( the longest side) for fins. Add eyes and decorate anyway you desire. We usually use crayons and markers.

Tissue Paper Collages
Tissue paper can be cut or torn by the children to make various shapes and sizes. OR if you prefer not using the fish shapes, how about tissue paper collages on paper using the various ocean colors: blues, greens and purples. In either project, paint on the tissue paper with liquid starch or diluted school glue to give it a "wet look" as the children create it and then a stiff texture when it has dried. The children may want to add fish to this "ocean". If so, provide small rubber stamps of fish for the children to stamp on fish pictures or furnish more tissue paper in other colors for them to tear and cut their fish shapes. Do either of these when the ocean picture has dried. If you want to use this as a sort of a printing experience, you can have the children peel off the tissue paper when they have finished painting it on and while their projects are still wet, and the colors will remain, kind of a watercolor look.

Thumb print Fish
Have children press their fingers onto a stamp pad & stamp fingers onto paper. Add features such as fins.

Toothpaste Aquariums
Get a small snack-size Ziploc bag and put blue sparkle toothpaste in it, add a couple gummy fish. Close the bag and let them squish!

Turtle Puppet
Paint a paper plate to resemble a turtle's top shell and paint another plate for the bottom shell. Staple or glue green construction paper legs on either plate. Sandwich a green sock between the painted plates so that the toe sticks out for the head and the top of the sock sticks out the back for the tail. Staple the two plates together on both sides, add eyes, and slip your hand into the sock.

GAMES & ACTIVITIES:

Adopt a Pond
Materials:  None 
What to Do:  If you're planning to take the kids to a nearby pond or slow-moving stream, you might want to consider "adopting" it, with permission from the proper authorities, of course.  If allowed, put up a sign and plan several visits to the area to observe the changes in vegetation and wildlife as spring turns into summer.  Put the Beaver promise "to help take care of the world" into practice.  Have the group pick up litter and generally keep their pond clean.  It's never too early to encourage respect for nature and the conservation of the natural world.

A Visit to the Pond
Visit a quiet stretch of river or pond in your area. Make sure the water is shallow and without a current, just to guarantee safety. Materials: a large glass jar, magnifying glasses or small microscopes, fine mesh fishing nets, and field books to help you identify plants and animals. Extra adult supervisors will reduce the chances of a child falling into cold water. (Beavers are notorious for their love of water!) Your members will need pencils, paper, rubber boots and curiosity. Bring along a camera to record the visit. When you arrive, fill the jar with pond water. Let it stand somewhere in the shade without a lid. You will have a great mini-lab when the sediment settles. Look at the water under a magnifying glass or microscope. What kinds of tiny creatures and plants do you see? Encourage the kids to draw what they see in the water. Look at the colour and composition of the tiny plant bits floating in the water. Did you pick up frog or nymph eggs? Make sure you empty the jar back into the pond when you've finished exploring its contents. Swish the nets through the pond water to see what you can catch. Perhaps you'll capture small fish, tadpoles, bugs or other fascinating life forms. Try not to handle them, and be sure to release them back into the water as quickly as possible. Explain to your Beavers that these creatures cannot stay alive out of water for very long. Take a walk around the edge of the pond to identify some of the varied plant life found in and out of the water. Are water lilies flowering? If they aren't, the pads might be visible. Are any frogs or small turtles resting on them? Cut a bit of water lily stem and look at it closely. Explain to your Beavers that the rubbery tube-like stem ensures that the water lily doesn't break off in large waves or stiff currents.

Clothesline Fish
Materials:
Fishing line,Clothespins,Construction paper
Prepare a fishing line with numbered clothespins (one through ten) on it. The clothespins should be in sequential order. Draw and cut out ten fish; write numerals one through ten on them. Have children place numbered fish on the line by matching the correct numerals. 

Frog Jump
Let the children pretend to be frogs. Have them squat down with their arms straight out in front of them. Then have them jump forward, raising their arms high into the air before returning to a squatting position. Ask them to jump fast, to take big frog jumps, to take a certain number of jumps, to jump slowly and take little frog jumps.

Fan the Fish
Equipment: newspaper, cardboard 
How to play: With masking tape mark off an area in the center of the floor, which is your pond for fishing. The task: each child must stock the pond with a fish. Give each child a sheet of newspaper and tell her to tear a "FISH SHAPE" out of the paper. Kids will need help making their fish. When each child gets her fish made, she must then use the fan (piece of cardboard) that is given to her to fan the fish into the pond. When the leader is ready to play the game, each child puts her fish down on the floor and fans the fish into the pond. Everyone goes at the same time, and the kids can be encouraged to help their friends once their fish are in the pond.

Feel a Fish
Purchase a whole fish from a Fish store let the children study it.  How then feel the scales.  What do they feel like?  Look at the gills?  Why do they go in and out when the fish is in the water?  Do fish breathe?  Can fish smell?  Do they have a nose?  Look at the fins and have the kids touch them.  Though the fish have a smell?  You might fry some fillet fish and let the kids have a taste.  I'm somewhat it tasted like.

Gone Fishing
By 2 pound size goldfish at the pet store.  To add tub of water ready for them 24 hours before so the water will be at room temperature.  Let the children go outside and fine parts of tree limbs that will make a good fishing pole.  High on white string for their line.  Do not use flux but tied on small pieces of bread and let the kids have experience of having a fish nibble at their lines.  If you have upon close to your school, you might like to go fishing in that.  Ask if they can hear the fish when it nibbles.

Go Fish
Make 6 inch fish from construction paper & write different numerals on each. Attach a paper clip to the nose of each fish. Tie a magnet to a 3 foot string which is tied to a clip. Spread out fish & fish. Variation: Punch a hole in the front of each fish, pass a twist tie through the hole, and bend it into a loop. Can use table as dock or big box as a boat.

Leap Frog
Choose several children to be "frogs" leaping over each other as the rest of the "frogs" sun themselves on rocks and chant:
Leap frog, leap frog Easy as can be. I'll leap frog you, Then you leap frog me.

Lily Pad Jumping
Cut out some large lily pad shapes from green poster paper or newspaper. Place them around the room and have children jump from lily pad to lily pad.

Lily Pad Sit-upons
Out of white poster board, cut 1 lily pad (big enough to sit on) for each child. Allow them to paint green (you can sponge paint- gives a nice effect), then after green paint is dry they can add white, pink, or yellow flowers (painted), if desired. Laminate if you wish.
For circle times during this theme, arrange a blue sheet or blanket on the ground in a circular or "uneven" shape (whatever suits your needs and space). This is the "pond." Have all your little "froggies" hop on over with their lily pad sit-upons, and you'll have a croaking good time!

Little Green Frogs
Have the children pretend to be little green frogs crouched down in the grass. Then recite the rhyme below and have the children take big "frog hops" every time they hear the word "Hop". When they hear the word "stop" have them stay crouch down without moving. Repeat the rhyme, changing a different "hop" to "stop".
Little green frog, won't you Hop - hop - hop?
Little green frog, won't you Hop - hop - stop?

Musical Lily Pads
(You can use the children's sit-upons -- see above -- if you made them). Cut out at least one lily pad (out of construction paper or poster board) for each child. Arrange in a circle, and turn on some music. Children hop around the outside of the circle until the music stops, then try to get to a lily pad. As with "regular" musical chairs, you can play several different versions: One lily pad per person so no one is eliminated, the "classical" game where there is one less lily pad than child so one person is eliminated each time, or take away one lily pad each time (but not children) so the froggies have to share lily pads, until eventually all the froggies are trying to stand on one lily pad!

Magnetic Fishing Game
Cut fish shapes and other items like those that could be found in a river, pond, or lake from oak tag or poster board. Glue a large paper clip to each item. You could use a small children's' wading pool or some other large container to put these in. Create a fishing pole out of fat dowel rod and heavy string. Secure a piece of magnet to the end of the string. The children can "fish" for the things in the wading pool.

One Fish, Two Fish. 
Take a field trip to a fish hatchery.  If you do not have one near you, a trip to a tropical fish store might be just as interesting.  See how many different types of fish there are.  Do all the fish look-alike?  Notice how they move in the water.  What happens to the fish when they get to be the right size?  When you return to your meeting area, make a comparison chart on the likenesses and differences of the types of fish seen.

Parachute Play
Blow up a green balloon and draw a frog face on it. During play with the parachute (a sheet or blanket can be used in place of a parachute), place the balloon on top of the parachute and tell the children the parachute (or sheet, etc.) is a lily pad, and the ground is the pond. As the lily pad "waves" around, try to keep the frog on the lily pad and out of the pond!

Pond Plants and Animals  (friends of the pond)
Take the kids to upon to look for upon animals, plants, Burns and Moss.  Be sure to take containers and a net with you.  Tell the kids to be very quiet and listen to the sounds.  See if they can find out what is making them.  Let the kids count how many different animals they see.  Bring back FPU plants for upon aquarium.  Also bring a couple of tadpoles.  Have the kids describe what tadpole looks like.  Later you will compare this observation when the tadpole changes into a frog.  Be sure to let the frog go back to its habitat.

Sensory Tub Idea
Fill the water table with toy items like those that could be found in a river, pond, or lake-- toy fish, snakes, aquatic plants, turtles.

Skipping Stones
Look for flat or slightly rounded stones, and pile them up in a central area so everyone can try skipping them over the water surface. Throw stones across the water with a sideways twist (as you would throw a tiny frisbee) so it skims and bounces across the surface before sinking. Count the number of bounces each stone makes. 

Turtle Races
Make three to five turtles and let the children race them. to make cut turtle shapes out of green poster board, number or name each one. Punch a hold just above the center of each turtle and put a five to eight foot long piece of string through it. Get one chair for each turtle. Tie one end of each piece of string to one of the legs of a chair. Line up the chairs along the finish line.
Have the children who are racing their turtles stand in a row at the starting line. Each child should hold the loose end of one of the strings. Begin the race with the turtles near the children's hands.
When you say "Go" the children who are racing should start jiggling their pieces of string so that the turtles bound toward the finish line. The other children should pick a turtle and cheer for it. Which turtle made it to the end first? Which one was last? Race again.

Turtle, Turtle, Frog
Have the children sit in a circle. Pick one child to be the frog. He starts leaping around the outside of the circle tapping each child on the head saying, "Turtle," to each one. When he gets to the one he wants to chase him, he says, "Frog". That child gets up and starts leaping after his frog friend, trying to catch him before he gets back to his place.

Tell About a Toad
Have the kids observe a toad.  Look at its briefing.  What does it do with water?  How does the skin feel?  A toad cannot give a person warts as some people think.  How does a toad hide?  What does it do during the day?  How does it move?  Does it make any noises?  What are its eyes like?  How does it eat?  What food does it like?  Be sure to have some bugs were to eat.  After the kids have had the chance to study the toad it might be wise to put it back in its natural habitat.

Turtles and Toads
Tell the kids to compare the spotted turtle with a toad.  Do they breathe the same way?  What does that turtle do with water?  Does the turtle feel the same as a toad?  How does the turtle high?  How does it move?  What does it look like?  Look at its eyes does it have eyelids?  What does its face remind you of?  Does it have any teeth?  What does it like to eat?  Make at chart comparing the toad in the turtle in the areas mentioned before.

The Frog Prince
Tell the story "The Frog Prince" to the children, then add props to the dramatic play area for them to act it out: crown and long dress for princess, frog mask and maybe green clothes for frog, crown and maybe bathrobe for prince, other "royal" garb for other members of royal family, ball for Princess. 

Tadpoles
Materials: Large plastic containers, fish bowl, algae, fish food What to Do:  You may want to lead into this activity talking to the colony about tadpoles and their growth into frogs.  During the spring, visit a pond and have the Beavers observe the many kinds of life that exist in that habitat.  They may even wish to bring their own fishnets to get a closer look at different phenomenon.  Have the kids search along the edges of the pond for tadpole eggs.  They have a clear jelly appearance with black spots covering them.  If any are found (a Leader may want to go in advance to be sure there are any), have the kids fill the large containers with pond water and algae.  Next, the Leader should very carefully scoop the eggs into the containers and then carry them back to the meeting place.  Over the next week or so, observe how the eggs hatch into tadpoles.  When this occurs, the tadpoles should be moved to a larger container, possibly a fish bowl.  The group can then continue to watch the tadpoles transform into frogs, and record every stage of the frogs' development.  Eventually, the frogs will need to be returned to their natural habitat.  Remember to feed the tadpoles algae and fish food.  They also will eat lunch meat and egg yolk for any eager children who want to bring them a treat.   As an additional activity, why not have the group draw pictures of their new found friends!

Witness Metamorphosis
Purchase a frog hatchery kit of some sort and actually allow the children to witness the metamorphosis from tadpole to frog. These frogs are not suitable for releasing, so you would want to make sure you want the commitment of caring for a frog! One common type lives 3 - 5 years, and another well over 10! (So do some research before you order!)
 

SONGS:

A Beaver Hymn
Tune: Jesus Loves Me 
We are Beavers, brown and blue. 
God gives us a job to do: 
Serve him well, and his world, too, 
That's the job that we must do. 
Yes, we are Beavers 
Yes, we are Beavers 
Yes, we are Beavers 
We have our job to do. 
God, we thank You everyday 
For our work and for our play, 
You show us in all 
You do Love and goodness flow from You. 
Thanks, God, we love You 
Thanks, God, we love You 
Thanks, God, we love You 
We'll do our best for You.

A Beaver is Short
A Beaver is short (squat down)
A Beaver is tall (stand tall)
A Beaver can wave (wave)
A Beaver can fall (fall to ground)
A Beaver likes me (point to self)
A Beaver likes you (point to others)
He can sit on the floor (sit)
And stand up, too (stand up)

Baby Frogs 
"Ribbit Ribbit" said mama frog
Sitting on a great big log
"Where are my babies, where can they be?"
Then out of the pond jumped one, two and three.
(Hold up three fingers , one at a time)
She was happy as could be,
But where were the others? She couldn't see.
So, "Ribbit, ribbit," she called again.
Then out they jumped---4,5,6,7,8,9 and 10.
(hold up remaining fingers one at a time)

Five Little Fishes
Five little fishes swimming in a pool,
This one said, "The pool is cool."
This one said, "The pool is deep."
This one said, "I'd like to sleep."
This one said, "I'll float and dip."
This one said, "I see a ship."
The fishing boat comes. The line goes splash. All the little fishes swim away in a flash!

Five Little Frogs
Five green and speckled frogs
Sat on a speckled log
Eating some most delicious bugs (mmm, mmm!)
One jumped into the pool
Where it was nice and cool,
Then there were four green speckled frogs. (glub, glub)
4 green and speckled frogs...
3 green and speckled frogs...
2 green and speckled frogs...
1 green and speckled frog...

Five Little Froggies
Five little froggies sat on a shore
(children crouch in a row like frogs)
One went for a swim then there were four
(First frog leaps, swims off)
Four little froggies looked happy as can be
One went swimming and then there were three
Three little froggies said "What can we do?"
(Children repeat)
One jumped in the water then there were two
Two little froggies sat in the sun
One swam off and then there was one
One little froggie said "This is no fun!"
(Last frog repeats)
He dived in the water and then there were none.

Frog
Croak said the frog, (Make croaking sound).
With his golden eyes. (Fist up to eyes.)
Sitting on a lily pad, Catching flies. (Grab air with hand.)
I have sticky tongue, (With index finger make darting motion.)
It's as FAST as can be. I catch the mosquitoes, l-2-3.

Five Little Fishes
Five little fishes, Swimming in the sea.
Teasing Mr. Shark, You can`t catch me, You can`t catch me.
Along comes Mr. Shark, As quiet as can be... Snap!
Four etc. (tune of 5 little monkeys teasing Mr. Alligator)

Five Little Frogs
Five little frogs
Were down at the pond
Down at the pond at play
Along came a hungry ________,
And chased one frog away.
Four little frogs
Were down at the pond
Down at the pond at play.
Along came a wiggly ________,
And chased one frog away.
Three little frogs
Were down at the pond
Down at the pond at play
Along came a giant ________,
And chased one frog away.
Two little frogs
Were down at the pond
Down at the pond at play
Along came a purple ________,
And chased one frog away.
One little frog
Was down at the pond
Down at the pond at play
Along came a flying ________,
And chased one frog away.
Then no little frogs
Were down at the pond
Down at the pond at play
Where do you think the little frogs went
When they all hopped away?

Little Froggy
(tune: I'm a little teapot)
See the little froggy
Swimming in the pool
The water's great
It's nice and cool
When he gets all cleaned up
Out he'll hop
Squeaky clean
From bottom to top.
See the little froggy
On the lily pad
Trying to catch flies
She's getting sad.
When she catches one,
She'll gobble it up
Back in the water
She'll go kerplop!

Let's Build a Dam!
Sung to the tune of "Waltzing Matilda" 
Once a very happy clown 
Walked along the riverbank 
Watching the childs as they swam 
al-on And he laughed and he waved to them 
Calling from the riverbank" 
Let's play together this afternoon." CHORUS" Let's 
build a dam! Let's build a dam! Let's build a dam," 
the childs called back. 
So he came and he worked And he played along the 
riverbank Building a dam with his child friends. 
All the childs joined him Working on the riverbank 
Chewing and cuttings happy as could be. 
And they sang as they worked And they played 
along the riverbank Building a dam in the afternoon

Little Tadpole
(tune: Frere Jacques)
Little tadpole, Little tadpole
Lost his tail, lost his tail.
Now he has two feet
Now he has four feet
Look a frog! Look a frog!

My Turtle
This is my turtle. (Make fist, extend thumb)
He lives in a shell. (hide thumb in fist)
He likes his home very well. He pokes his head out when he wants to eat. (Extend thumb)
And pulls it back when he wants to sleep.

Six Little Frogs
(tune: "Six Little Ducks")
Six little frogs that I once knew,
Green ones, brown ones, red ones, too.
But the one bullfrog with the freckles on his throat,
He ruled them all with a croak, croak, croak.
Down to the blue pond they would go,
Hop, jump, hop, jump, to and fro.
But the one bullfrog with the freckles on his throat,
He ruled them all with a croak, croak, croak.

Slippery Fish
Slippery fish, slippery fish, splashing in the water.
Slippery fish, slippery fish, GULP GULP GULP!
OH NO! he was eaten by a octopus!
Octopus, octopus, wiggling in the water.
Octopus, octopus, GULP GULP GULP!
OH NO! he was eaten by a tuna fish!
Tuna fish, tuna fish, gliding through the water.
Tuna fish, tuna fish, GULP GULP GULP!
OH NO! he was eaten by a Great White Shark!
Great White Shark, Great White Shark,lurking in the water
Great White Shark, Great White Shark, GULP GULP GULP!
Oh NO! he was eaten by a humongous whale!
Humongous whale, Humongous whale, spouting in the water
Humongous whale, humongous whale, GULP GULP GULP!
BURP! Pardon me!
(For the slippery fish and the tuna fish, you can cup your hands and make them move through the water. The octopus is a hand with wiggling fingers. The great white shark is an open hand on top of the head. The whale is both hands spread wide. The finger play ends with putting your hand to your mouth to suppress a loud Burp.)

The Turtle
There was a little turtle,
He lived in a box.
He swam in a puddle,
He climbed on the rocks.
He snapped at a mosquito,
He snapped at a flea,
He snapped at a minnow, He snapped at me.
He caught the mosquito,
He caught the flea,
He caught the minnow,
But he didn't catch me.

The Frog On The Log
There once was a green little frog, frog, frog
Who played in the wood on a log, log, log.
A screech owl sitting in a tree, tree, tree
Came after the frog with a screech, screech, screech.
When the frog heard the owl in a flash, flash, flash,
He leaped in the pond with a splash, splash, splash.

The Frog Lives In The Pond
(Sung to: "The Farmer in the Dell")
The frog lives in the pond
Her tongue is oh, so long.
It reaches high to catch a fly.
The frog lives in the pond.

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FOOD SUGGESTIONS:

Fish Snack
Needed: Blue napkins, medicine cups, pretzels, gold fish crackers, peanut butter
Open up napkin and place fish in the middle. (The napkin is the ocean.) Have peanut butter in the cup. (This is the bait cup.) Use pretzels for fishing rods. Dip in bait (peanut butter) and catch a fish. Eat fish and bait. keep fishing until all the fish are eaten.

Frogs In A Pond
Make up some green jello, allow to partially set then drop in some chocolate frogs and return to fridge until fully set - a yummy treat!

Frog On A Log
Clean celery and cut in short pieces for a log. Add cream cheese that has been tinted green with food coloring. Children can add raisins for the frogs.

Jello Aquariums
Just get some clear plastic cups, put some Oreo crumbs or "sandy" colored cookie crumbs on the bottom. Get some blue jello & pour over the crumbs, add some gummy fish & when set, this makes a great snack! 

Turtle Cookies
Make rolled sugar cookie dough or buy the refrigerated "slice and bake" dough. Give the children green jelly beans that you have sliced in half horizontally. Shove them into the dough to make arms, legs and head. The children shake green sugar on their cookie. Bake as directed. 
 

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