You will need

• Pre made pond (blue tray or piece of paper)
• Photocopies of the frog template and many flies!
• Children will need
• Green crayons and Yellow poster paint
• Strip of red paper
• Double sided sticky tape or pva glue

1. Photocopy the frog template and cut out. 
2. Using the black dots as a guide fold frog in half.
3. Photocopy the fly template and cut out into individual flies! Lay these ready to be caught on the pond tray/ blue paper.
1. Explain to the children that frog (and toads) like living close to water as there are always lots of flies around there for them to eat. Could also discuss why frogs and toads feel cold and damp! Being cold blooded and needing wet areas to live so that the sun doesn’t hurt them.
2. Colour in the frog with green crayons (explaining that most frogs the children will see will probably be green as this colour helps them to hide away in plants and to stay safe) 
3. Decorate the frog back with finger print spots using the yellow poster paint. 
4. Make the frog tongue by cutting a strip of red paper (approx 2cm X 30cm length of A4 sheet!)
5. Curl it up so that it takes on a ‘springy’ effect. Stick one end to the underside of the front of frog template.
6. Choose a place on the tongue least likely to get stuck elsewhere! nd attach some double sided sticky tape or pva glue.
7. See if the children can catch the flies on the pond bye holding the frog and waving it so that the tongue flicks around hopefully glue/tape will collect flies from the pond! An easier alternative is for the child to place one finger into the centre of the curled up tongue and unravel it so that it lands onto a fly!