Form Drawing: Toad Eggs

A friend sent these pictures of Frog Eggs laid in some water near where I grew up... and I was so glad to see them! Spring is finally here!

To go along with these photographs, we did the Frog Life Cycle card from the Nature box of Turn Over (a vintage and hard-to-find Montessori material).

the Turn Over cards and board look like this

the three wooden pegs are to help you line up your card correctly

then you get 12 wooden curved pieces, each a different color

as you solve the card, you put each colorful piece in its correct place

for the life cycle, the PINK image comes first

look closely... what comes next? 

once you've chosen the second image, place its color beside the pink one

when you are done, flip the card over and use the wooden pegs to line it up

check the wooden pieces you have around the rim

if the colors are all in the correct order, you've done the card correctly!

It is fun to make a "Frog Eggs" recipe (coconut almond chia seed pudding) to go along with this activity! Here's our favorite:

Coconut Almond Chia Seed Pudding

Combine in a large bowl:
1 can coconut milk
2 c almond milk
1/4 c maple syrup
2 tsp vanilla extract

Slowly stir in
2/3 c chia seeds

Let stand. Stir after 1/2 hour, then cover and refrigerate overnight.

After we did our Froggie Green Watercolor Painting, we did a Form Drawing of Toad Eggs. They are very different! Toads are not like frogs; they lay their eggs in long chains. It is the perfect image to go alongside a form like this:

Looking back, I see that our Tadpole Photos are from May. So it is not quite tadpole time here. In the past we have collected our tadpoles from the pond at Dayempur Farm on the morning of Easter Sunday. It's a great tradition!