How many frog songs do you know?
Make these printable five green frogs puppets and have fun singing all the frog songs you know!
Sat on a mossy log,
Eating some most delicious bugs. Yum! Yum!
One jumped into the pool,
Where it was nice and cool,
Now there are four green speckled frogs!
This has always been a favourite counting song, way back when I was teaching preschool and with my own kids. But my middle child loved this song the most, because when he was little he loved to count everything, plus green was his favourite colour. So since I was working on being the ‘best mum ever’ I combined his two loves – numbers and green things – and made him these five green frog puppets.
In the years since I first made these puppets they been used over and over by my kids and downloaded hundreds of times on my blog. They are definitely a favourite all round, so I’ve recently given them a bit of an update!
Printable Five Green Frogs Puppets
These printable frog puppets are perfect for singing all your favourite frog songs, or even acting out a few froggy stories. You can also use them with play dough or as part of an imaginative play set up.
We used a piece of firewood for a log, and some bright blue tissue paper to be the pool for our frogs to jump into. You could also make a long from a cardboard tube and any thing blue makes for a good pool!
We’ve sung the Five Green and Speckled Frogs over and over and over. Sometimes we’d jump more than one frog into the pool, sometimes we’d be crazy and jump one out of the pool, and we’d always counting how many frogs were left on the log. It’s such a great hands on way to practice counting!
How to Make the Frogs Puppets
I use a regular inkjet printer to print all my puppets. We printed our five speckled frogs onto matte photo paper, but you could also use light cardstock, or regular printer paper and laminate the puppets after you have cut them out.
We use tape or a glue dot to attach a craft stick to the back of each frong to turn them into puppets. You can also use straws, or bamboo skewers, or leave them without sticks so they can be used in lots of different ways.
The frog puppet set includes these five cute green and speckled frogs, as well as printable pages with the words to the Five Green and Speckled Frogs song and the Mr Frog song.
You can download the Five Green Frogs printable puppets here.
This printable is an A4 sized pdf file, you will need a pdf reader such as adobe acrobat to open it. If you are printing on US ‘letter sized’ paper be sure to select ‘fit’ or ‘shrink to fit’ from your printer options.
Please remember that the printables at picklebums.com are for personal use only, you may not sell, share, or link directly to these files.
There are lots of great frog songs – what’s your favourite?
I’ve been requested to make more puppets – do you know any other good counting songs or finger plays that would lend themselves to puppet making?
If you like these, then you’ll love our other free printable puppets.
Mel says
Thanks for sharing Kate they are gorgeous! I am printing them for sure.
5 little ducks would be good if you are looking to make more, you know the one, 5 little ducks went out one day over the hill and far away.
katef says
oh yes five little ducks… I even have some ducks I drew for another project! Thanks for the idea!
cate says
thank you! I’m going to make {3 sets of} these tomorrow
{i second the vote for ducks!}
Christie-Childhood 101 says
They look great. Five currant buns, five cheeky monkeys, there were 5 in the bed – you could do any characters you like dressed in PJs :)
katef says
I was thinking of five current buns, because I love that song! I like the Ten in the Bed idea too… we sing that a lot around here!
Jackie says
Cutest green and speckled frogs ever! Thanks for sharing! I was thinking 5 little monkeys jumping on a bed. Here is a link to some of the nursery rhymes we like to play puppets with:
http://readysetread2me.blogspot.com/2011/03/playing-with-puppets.html
katef says
What a great door way puppet theatre! Thanks so much for sharing!
amandab says
Pretty sure I have the 5 icy pole sticks, and this might be something I put in the good behaviour lucky dip box we are starting :) Some very fine looking frogs indeed!
Nanny B says
My all time favourite frog song is “Glumph went the little green frog!”.
Heather @ Life Gluten Free says
Awesome! Thanks so much for sharing!
Veronica says
I love the frogs. Love love love.
SquiggleMum says
Love, love, love, love, love.
Thanks Kate. We have made our own frogs previously, but yours are WAY cuter. xx
chelsea says
I love this idea and made some for my son’s virtues class
THANKS!
Gwyn says
Kate, I linked your site from my blog because your frogs would go good with my Frog and Pond printables. I hope that it was ok. You are
so witty have you ever thought of writting? I read a lot of your post and laughed and laughed! Thanks, Gwyn
Courtney says
We used this printable today to make a fun craft!
Thanks!
Jennifer says
Thank you for sharing such a cute printable!
Miss Gaby says
Thank you! They are awesome – I love the realistic set up as well! I’ll be sure to print these and add them to my goodie bag for work!
learningmontessori says
5 little monkeys sitting on the tree teasing mr. alligator, 5 little pumpkins, One, Two, Tie My Shoe
Jill says
Thank you so much for offering this as a free printable! I downloaded it today to use in my preschool (toddler) class. Our June theme theme is “frogs and bugs” so it is perfect! I also loved the idea of using blue tissue paper and will use that for my bulletin board. I am making frogs with accordian fold legs and green lily pads so it should look great :)
lucy says
Thank you for sharing such wonderful IDEAS!
Lindsey Whitney says
Just found your blog (it’s frog day at Storytime today!) and I love your little profile blurb! I can’t wait to read more — looks like you’ve got a lot of great stuff on here and those frogs are so cute!!!
melissa says
Thank you so much for sharing your talents!
Anna says
My two-year-old could have done this all day! Thanks for the great printable.
Nikki T says
HI! I love your froggy download… I hope it’s okay that I featured it {with a link back to you, of course} on my frog bundle blog post.
Melissa says
These are just gorgeous, my daughter is obsessed with the song about the 5 monkeys swinging in the tree who tease Mr Crocodile ….. just an idea
Gilly Taylor says
brilliant Thank you