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Frog Sensory Bag for a Favorite Nursery Rhyme

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This frog sensory bag is perfect after you’ve taught the kids “Five Green and Speckled Frogs.” Since it’s in a bag, even mess-averse children will be excited to explore the fun.

Teaching children nursery rhymes is an important part of the preschool experience! This simple sensory bag makes for a great hands-on extension to the rhyming fun.

supplies and photos showing how to make a sensory bag with text that reads frog sensory bag

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Did you know there are 5,000 species of frogs already known, with more being discovered all the time? Read your kids some more fun frog facts like this while they’re exploring their frog sensory bags. Something tells me you’ll have a captive audience.

Table of Contents

  • Frog Sensory Bag
    • Recommended Supplies
    • Frog Sensory Bag Directions
  • More Frog Sensory Play Ideas
  • Done-For-You Preschool Resources

Frog Sensory Bag

One of the great things about sensory bags is that they’re super versatile. You can make them around almost any interest or theme! Plus, they’re generally easy to assemble. That’s the case with this one!

We made the frog sensory bag to go along with “Five Green and Speckled Frogs,” but you don’t have to. If you’d rather it be all about the frogs, you can easily tweak what we did.

supplies for diy frog sensory bag: clear hair gel, plastic gallon bag, sticks, pom poms, and black beans

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Recommended Supplies

The froggy sensory bag isn’t very difficult to put together, but it does require a few materials. Here’s what we used (I may get commissions for purchases made through links in this post):

  • Gallon size zipper bag
  • Frog stickers
  • Clear hair gel (16 ounce bottle)
  • Green pom poms
  • Small pieces of wood (sticks)
  • Black beans (to represent the flies) – black pony beads might be preferable because the black beans can break down over time
  • Strong tape
  • Five Green and Speckled Frogs (optional)

You can change some of the materials depending on your preferences. I recommend that you use black pony beads instead of the black beans we used. Over time, the beans broke down (as I should have guessed!). So the beads will be more durable.

Frog Sensory Bag Directions

Here’s how to put together the sensory bags. Feel free to make any adjustments you want to the directions based on your own preferences. I think having the kids help assemble it is a great idea, but you can make it on your own if you’d rather it be a surprise!

First, teach your children the well-loved nursery rhyme! You can use the book mentioned in our supply list, as well as the Five Green and Speckled Frogs printable.

Stick the frog stickers inside the bag, spread out enough to leave space around each one. Five stickers seem to work well, spread evenly throughout the bag.

stickers shown inside a gallon plastic bag as beginning of sensory bag activity

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Place the stickers on the inside of the bag. Once that’s done, add the sticks, pom poms and black pony beads to the bag.

supplies for preschool frog sensory bag - frog stickers, sticks, pom poms, and beans inside of bag

Look at those cute little frogs and logs! Now you can pour the whole bottle of hair gel into the plastic bag. Make sure the air is gently pressed out of the bag before you zip it up. To prevent the bags from sliding all over the place, tape them down to the table with strong tape. You can use tape across the top of the bag, or a bit of double stick tape on the back.

plastic gallon-sized bag filled with frog stickers, hair gel, sticks, black beans, and green pom poms to make sensory bag project

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Let the children manipulate the contents of the frog sensory bag. Encourage them to move a “log” (stick) underneath each of the frogs. Then have them do the same with the pony bead “flies.”

More Frog Sensory Play Ideas

If your students loved our frog sensory bag, here are some more ideas they might enjoy:

  • Frog Sensory Bin
  • Lily Pad Frog Slime
  • Frog Pond Sensory Bin
  • Simply Frog Small World
  • Life Cycle of a Frog Sensory Bin

Done-For-You Preschool Resources

Let Preschool Teacher 101 save you a ton of time with fully-developed, done-for-you preschool resources! That way, you can focus on teaching your students while at work . . . and (gasp!) having a personal life at home.

With the 5 Green & Speckled Frogs lesson plans you will get our usual daily and weekly lesson plans, complete with all necessary printables. Students will learn the traditional nursery rhyme with focus skills that include phonological awareness, nonstandard measurement, life science, number sense, vocabulary development and more!

Click on the image below to learn more.

cover for preschool lesson plans for the book 5 Green and Speckled Frogs

You can also find us on Teachers Pay Teachers.

preschool sensory bag with text that reads five green and speckled frogs sensory bags

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