Five Green Speckled Frogs

My baby's favorite felt story and rhyme. This felt story is one of my handmade creations "Arts & Crafts". Obviously the "Five Green Speckled Frogs felt story and his rhyme teaches basic mathematics from 1 to 5 and subtraction from 5 to 1. It enhances cognitive skills and rhyhtm and recognition of numbers.

Children will never get bored, when you introduce this simple but wonderful felt story. As an educator the most possible way of delivering this story is through animation, if you know how to make sounds and actions, this story is a winner.

This felt story also can be use for transition.

Five Green and Speckled Frogs

Five Green and speckled frogs

Sat on the mossy logs

Eating the most delicious bugs

Yum!!! Yum!!!

One jumped into the pool

Where it was nice and cool

Now there are four green 

Speckled frogs.

(Continue the rhyme until no more frog)

Weather Wheel Chart

During my observation and experimentation midterm class oral presentation, it was optional if we make our own weather wheel chart or ready made weather wheel chart. Most of the students chose to make our own and showed our creativity in making this chart besides it costs us less.

Part of our program as an early childhood educator is to be creative, so why not practicing and enhancing our little talents in arts and making crafts as early as possible.

Weather chart is very useful in everyday lives particularly in teaching our young children about the weather. It gives the children a concrete ideas of what the weather looks like and feels like. It will also give them the basic information on what to wear in every season appropriately.  

Giving lessons or mentioning to the children everyday about the weather during circle time will enhance their cognitive skills on the weather whereabouts.

Winter Bloom Scarf

The scarf I made was my daughter's idea. She was complaining that her scarf was boring. she wanted to have a flower scarf. She made a request when she was 4 years old. It was really funny at the same time I was amazed how she had been motivated to wear something flowery even if it is winter.

She told me, she will looked more beautiful when she will have flower around her neck. Her imagination of having a garland of flower even winter, motivates me in making this "winter bloom scarf."

The materials I used to create the roses is pink felt sheets and green felt for the leaves . I did not use the one from Dollar store instead I bought the materials from Fabricville because the materials are softer than the felt sheet in Dollar store.

The scarf is handmade and sewed it manually. It took me several days to finish because of too much details on it.

My daughter really loves it. Several winters she was wearing it but at this time she used this scarf to decorate her bed. I will take a picture one day & post it here soon.

My eldest son was also requesting to have one but it was not granted since the scarf is so girliesh. I promised to make one for him unfortunately until now, I cannot think a better one for my boys.