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Hi! I’m Riley Roam from Page Turner Adventures and I'm
one of the presenters for the summer reading
program, and in our workshops we did some frog songs
and a frog story that I'm going to do for you today. I'm
going to do one of the frog songs, which is actually a
song that I learned at day camp when I was about five years old,
and it's still one of my favorites. It’s called “Gump,
Gump.” So here we go. "Gump, Gump" said the little
Mr. Froggy. "Gump, Gump" said the lady froggy too.
"Gump, Gump" said them both together and their eyes
they went woo, woo. And they kissed each other just as
little froggy’s dooo. And he said “Oh my.” And she said
“Goodbye.” So there you have it. That’s "Gump, Gump".
It’s a fun little song, it’s just an easy little song, and the kids love it
when you do the “woo, woo” on the eyes, and the
kissing frogs, and really playing up the "as little frogs dooo."
So there you go. It’s a fun warm up into this next story
which is called “The Big Mouth Frog.”
Now, there are a lot of versions of this story out there.
There are a few picture book versions of it. So I took
the basic story and I modified it a little bit to have a
Florida theme. And this story is actually very different then the stories
I usually do as a storyteller. I usually do motion
potion movement stories which are very physical and
use your entire body, and they are very interactive
with the audience. Now this one can also have audience
participation but as you can see I am sitting down and
really it all relies on your face, and your voice, and when you do the big mouth
frog really opening your mouth wide
and playing it up. So here we go - The Big Mouth Frog.
Once upon a time in a Florida swamp there lived a very little
frog with a VERY BIG MOUTH! Now this little frog
was very nosy and always getting into everybody
else’s business. One day the big mouth frog decided
that he wanted to know what everybody in the swamp
ate for breakfast. So he hopped over to a deer that was
grazing by the side of the swamp. A boing, boing,
boing, boing, boing. And the big mouth frog said “Hi,
who are you? What do you eat for breakfast?” The deer
blinked her eyes and said “I am a white-tailed deer. I
eat leaves for breakfast. Who are you?” And the big mouth frog
said “I’m the big mouth frog. I eat flies for breakfast.”
[buzzes like a bug, slurps and swallows]
Then the big mouth frog hopped over to a
bird that was wading in the water. A boing, boing, boing,
boing, boing. And the big mouth frog said “Hi, who are you?
What do you eat for breakfast?” The bird looked down
its long beak at the frog and said “I am an
endangered wood stork. I eat fish for breakfast. Who
are you?” And the big mouth frog said “I’m the big mouth
frog. I eat flies for breakfast.”
[buzzes like a bug, slurps, and swallows]
Then the big mouth frog hopped over to a turtle that was sunning itself on a log.
A boing, boing, boing, boing, boing. And the big mouth
frog said, ready here we go, “Hi, who are you?
What do you eat for breakfast?” And the turtle poked his head
out of the shell and said “I’m a Florida
Cooter. I eat water plants for breakfast. Who
are you?” And the big mouth frog said “I’m a big mouth
frog. I eat flies for breakfast.”
[buzzes like a bug, slurps, and swallows]
Then the big mouth frog hopped over to alligator.
A boing, boing, boing, boing, boing.
And he said, you ready? Here we go all together, “Hi,
who are you? What do you eat for breakfast?” And the
alligator licked his lips and said “I am alligator. I eat
big mouth frogs for breakfast. Who did you say
you are? Hmmm?” And the big mouth frog said “I’m the big mouth fro-”
. . . I’m the small mouth frog. I eat fl...um...pancakes
for breakfast.” Boing, boing, boing, boing, boing. And he hopped away
all the way back to his lily pad where he stayed
and never opened his big mouth again.
[buzzes like a bug, slurps, and swallows]
And that's the end.
So after you do your frog song and frog
story you might want to do a frog craft, so I have a very
simple fun little frog craft. We are going to do an
Origami frog out of an index card. And this is nice because
you do not have to buy special Origami paper.
So we are going to take the index card and the first thing
you are going to do is just fold down this corner,
and make a crease, and then unfold it and do the same
thing to the other side. Fold it, make a crease,
unfold it so now you have an X. You're going to turn the paper around
and fold it, so it’s the opposite way, and you’re going to fold it right where the X
crosses. And again, just make a crease. So by doing that
it makes this fold in very easily like that, and you make
a little triangle on top. Now we're going to take these
corners of the triangle and fold them up...Fold it up. Hard to do backwards.
So it looks kind of like that. And then these sides are going to fold
in towards the center. Right there, like that, so it looks something like
that. Now I'm going to turn the frog over
and I am going to take the bottom part and fold it up
to where the points of that little diamond shape on top
were. So it looks like that. Then I am going to take this
part, and fold this, just this bottom part in half so it meets back down at
the bottom. So this is what it should look like
in the end. You can leave it that way but if you really want to get fancy
you can take these top little corners
and you can fold them down again to give the frog some feet.
And there you have it. That is our little
jumping frog, and actually if you tap on the back here,
if you did it right, they'll jump. Now, since it is an
index card, something else that I like to do, is to open up, you can open up
the card when it is done. And the kids can write
a message, or a fortune, or a note or a joke or something
inside, and then fold the whole thing back up, and then they can
jump them around the room, and send them to
each other, and there you have a fortune frog.