Learning the Life Cycle of a Frog for Kids

We've been learning about frogs for the past weeks, and finally, we get to use our Life Cycle Frog layered puzzle from Beleduc.  This beautiful piece of layered puzzle shows all the development stages of a frog's life in tiers. If you are trying to incorporate hands-on materials in teaching the life cycle of these types of animals, read on to learn more about our activity.

To introduce the subject, we've been observing tadpoles in the park for the past few weeks for Vito to have a real experience of what these baby frogs look like. Once at home, we would read frog books to supplement his discoveries and learnings. The books we are using so far are the following:

• Wetlands (About Habitats by Cathryn Sill)
• From Tadpole to Frog (Let's Read and Find Out)
• Frogs My First Discovery Series

Below is a preview from Frog My First Book of Discoveries, which Vito loves to read at night. This is his favorite because he loves to match our frog figures to the pictures in this book (the images are realistic!).

Once he was familiar with the life cycle, I introduced the puzzle. Vito immediately recognized the figures, and he excitedly worked on solving the mystery. He enjoyed putting together the pieces to reveal the image and would excitedly match it to our frog figures (Safari Ltd Life Cycle of a Frog)!

Vito enjoyed putting this together, and each time he completed a layer, we would discuss the changes, like developing hind legs, then forelegs.

Now, to show you how this puzzle works, take a look at this video that Mavi made:

I hope that you like our short activity! Below is a summary of the materials we used:

• Wetlands (About Habitats by Cathryn Sill)
• From Tadpole to Frog (Let's Read and Find Out)
• Frogs My First Discovery Series
• Life Cycle Frog layered puzzle from Beleduc
• Safari Ltd Life Cycle of a Frog

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