Today we finished our first official week of 2nd grade Homeschooling! We’ve been reading Frog and Toad together during our literacy time. So today, we did some Frog and Toad Together activities and a STEM challenge in honor of Frog and Toad and the Olympic Games!

Frog and Toad Together activities - pinterest image

Jumping Frog Origami Craft

My 7 year old son has been obsessed with folding paper airplanes! He has a paper airplane instructional book he got for Christmas and LOVES it! So, I decided to find a foldable frog we could make as a craft because he also loves to do any kind of crafts.

When I was looking for an origami book that had a frog in it, I found this one from our local library. When I saw it was a *jumping* frog, I knew we had to do a STEM challenge with our Frog and Toad Together activities!

That’s where the Frog and Toad Origami Games STEM Challenge was born! SIDE NOTE: Have you watched any of the marble run games on YouTube? Two of our kids have been obsessed with these at one time or another! And it was another inspiration for this STEM challenge. 🙂

We followed the super easy step-by-step directions in the origami book. And then we added googly eyes to our jumping frog!

Then, we were ready to let the games begin!!

Event 1: Frog Races

First, Cooper took sidewalk chalk and drew a *short* track for the frogs to race. FAIR WARNING: These frogs jump, but not high and not far! So a short track is best! 🙂

Then, we took turns racing and timing Frog and Toad. Frog went first!

Frog and Toad STEM Challenge: frog races

We recorded our times on the Frog and Toad STEM Challenge recording sheet, and each took 2 tries to race.

Event 2: Frog Hurdles

For the next event, we used bendy straws to make 3 hurdles. Because our frogs didn’t jump as high, we made an easy, medium, and hard hurdle!

Frog and Toad each got two tries to jump each hurdle. Toad only jumped the easiest hurdle once, but Frog jumped the easy AND the hardest hurdle. (Frog had help from the wind!)