I was inspired by MaryMaking's blog post on a frog painting lesson, but decided to adapt it for my special needs students. I pre-cut just about all of these pieces for most of my special needs classes, some of them are able to use scissors, and others not. Each frog has 1 medium green circle (head), 1 large green circle (body), 2 smaller white circles (eyeballs), 1 green heart (cut in half for the legs), 1 long pink strip (curled with a marker of pencil for the tongue), 2 little green half circles with 2 v's cut out (for the feet), and finally 1 large dark green oval (with a big v cut out of it for the lilypad). First I have students splatter yellow and orange tempera paint (watered down) on the frog pieces with a small brush. Some students do this "hand over hand" with an aid. It usually dries really fast, so while waiting we use a dot marker to make the eyes- they can put the black dot anywhere! Then we glue the lilypad onto a blue background. Next with a black marker they add 2 little marks for the nostrils and a wavy line for the mouth (hand over hand). Then we begin gluing the frog together- body first, then head, then legs, then feet, then eyes, and finally the tongue.
