The Big Wide-Mouthed Frog Project

 

I love a good project- but right, smack in the middle of it.. I always question myself if it was such a great idea. This Big Wide-Mouthed Frog project has been going on for days…

This is a precious book that I read every year with my first graders when we talk about frogs. I have multiple copies (bought from Scholastic a few years ago).

It’s about an wide mouthed frog who meets other animals (kangaroo, koala, possum, emu, and crocodile. The frog smarts off to each one and calls each animal a name.

He always asks the animals “What is your name and what do you eat”. They tell the frog what they eat… he hops off and says, “I am a big wide mouth frog and I eat flies.

UNTIL.. he meets a crocodile who says, “ I am a crocodile and I eat big wide mouthed frogs.” And the frog has to run off quickly! So cute!

So, I took each animal from the book and drew them on big white paper {bulletin board paper}.

My students had to trace over my pencil marks first with black markers then start coloring.

This took a little longer than expected.. I thought I would be able to finish this in 2 days. .. um, NO! But, my little ones never lost interest and would ask me every day if we were going to work on our animals. They loved every minute of it.

I told them they had to make it look close to the pictures in the book. This helped so there was no arguing over what color things should be. The pictures in the book are fun so they were happy to make their animals look like the ones in the book.

I cut around the animals yesterday afternoon and I made the little word clouds.. that told what each animal eats.

I originally planned to hang these in the hall outside our classroom.. but I realized that was going to be a chore to tape all of this to the wall and I really didn’t think we would have room after we got finished and saw how large the pieces were.

Luckily, we have a large bulletin board in our cafeteria that our art teacher keeps artwork on. She was more than happy to let me take over and put something up for the rest of the year.

And, it barely fit on this huge bulletin board. It’s a little bit crowded but it looks great. My little ones were the proudest little people ever at lunch today!

I question myself for doing a project like this.. but once it is over and we are finished.. I am so glad I took the time to let them do something like this. They love it and we really did have a good time!

 

Go find this book! It’s one of my favorites!

xoxo, kacey