Ah yes, now this week is my kind of weather! And it must be great for the tree frogs as well because it's this time of year that we see an influx of them attached to our windows. Just yesterday the boys and I were watching one of the cute little fellas leave us a present as he was suction cupped to our back door, so I decided to put a magnet Science idea to use that I came across a few weeks ago.
We talked about magnets and tested out what was 'magnetic' and was wasn't. Then we made our own special 'Magnetic Tree Frog'
Paint a small paper plate green
Add spots if you'd like; hole punchers work great for small circles too
Our next step was to clean up the almost 100 cut holes that fell to the floor because it was hard for them to stop at just a few; saving them to use for other projects of course :)
Add the eyes and legs and you have a great little tree frog. You can add a second plate stapled to the bottom and paint blue and add orange/red hands to complete the tropical tree frog look, but my boys just wanted red toes, have fun and make it your own!
I then hot glued a piece of magnet to end of a pipe cleaner. I just cut some pieces from those free magnets you get on the front of telephone books, nothing fancy. Then hot glue the other end of the pipe cleaner to the inside of the top plate.
My little guys were occupied for a while collecting flies for the frogs... paperclips :)
These would even be a great game to use at a birthday party to see which frog could catch the most flies!
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