Five Little Speckled Frogs
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"Five little speckled frogs" is a nursery rhyme.
Lyrics
- Five little speckled frogs
- Sat on a speckled log
- Eating the most delicious bugs
- One jumped into the pool
- Where it was nice and cool
- Then there were four green speckled frogs.
The verse is then repeated with one fewer frog each time.
The final verse ends "Then there were no speckled frogs.
Hand Actions
There are hand motions that allow children to participate during the song.
- Line #1: By show of fingers hold up the number of frogs sitting on the log.
- Line #2: Draw in your hands close to your chest and curl your fingers downward, facing the floor as though you are a frog perched atop a log.
- Line #3: Mimic eating while you sing 'Eating some most delicious bugs', then rub your belly delightfully while singing 'yum, yum!'.
- Line #4: Hold one finger up to represent the frog who fell off the log.
- Line #5: Pretend to fall over.
- Line #6: By a show of fingers, hold up the number of frogs still remaining on the log while singing "Now there's only four speckled frogs". Upon singing "(glub, glub)", repeat the same movement as in the second line except look upward as though you were a frog underneath water.
