It's funny where creative inspiration comes from. This particular project was inspired by a song. A song I sing just about every day to my son. He loves it! Even as an infant, he would perk up to Five Green and Speckled Frogs. So I set out to make 5 very green and very speckled frogs that he could play with while we sing the song!
I used a frog template to cut out 2 green frog shapes per frog--10 total. It was pretty tricky matching these up perfectly. I made a "figure eight shape" out of white and black felt for the eyes. The fun part for me was using Wonder-Under to attach all of the spots onto the frogs... even on the backs of them!! Our five green and speckled frogs needed to be truly speckled, after all. I sewed a red mouth and then stitched all the way around the frogs, stopping just long enough to add just a bit of stuffing for each frog's tummy.
This little frog is my favorite. I like his big dopey smile. They each have their own special "personality" and did not end up identical, but I like that.
I was dying for this little drooling dude to wake up in the morning and meet the froggies!!
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Oh my heck....these are so cute!! Thanks for linking @Creative Itch's "Sew Cute Tuesday"!!
ReplyDeleteI love the little frogs! They would be cute to have when you sing the song! I will have to bring myself to get creative! ; )
ReplyDeleteThose are too cute!
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Rachelle
These are super cute. What a great idea. I should make some for Easter. Thanks for linking up today!
ReplyDeleteOh my goodness- I love that song and your little froggies! You should sell them for all of us non-sewers out there! Could I make them with a glue gun? he, he
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Soooo cute!
ReplyDeleteI love the way this is interactive with a song.
ReplyDeleteThese are adorable! We just sang this song tonight!
ReplyDeleteHi Alison, Thought you'd like to know that I've featured this project on Tot Tuesdays today. Feel free to grab my Featured button on the top left hand side of my blog :)
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely adorable and a fun way to illustrate a song.
ReplyDeleteThanks for linking up with What are little boys made of? (I'm glad you found the party!).
I love your frogs. I have this as a board book that I made for my kindergarten class. There are laminated frogs and you take one away and hide it on the back of the book as you read, soo fun. :)
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