Lily Pad Projects

Mural

• Create a pond scene on your wall for a classroom mural or for a child’s playroom decoration. Covering the wall with blue paint or blue construction paper creates the water background. Cut pieces of construction paper into a lily pad shapes. Attach the lily pads to the blue paper. Create water lily flowers using origami paper or by cutting two-dimensional shapes from construction paper. Attach the flowers to the lily pads. If desired, create frogs and hang them on the wall as well.

Stained Glass

• Use the porous nature of a coffee filter to create a lily pad for a rainy day activity. Cut a triangle out of one side of a paper coffee filter creating the lily pad shape. Color the lily pad shapes with different shades of green markers. Scribble the colors instead of coloring the filter completely. Once completed, fill a spray bottle with water and spritz the filters’ surfaces. Alternatively, take the coffee filters outside and let the rain fall on them. The ink from the markers bleeds throughout the filter, creating a unique stained glass-type effect. If desired, color a round area of pink as well.

Handprints

• Create a craft project for younger children using finger paints. Dip the child’s hand in green finger paint. With the fingers held together, press the palm of their hands onto a piece of blue or white construction paper. Once the finger paint dries, have the children draw a frog to sit on the lily pad. Pair the project with the song “Five Little Speckled Frogs.”

Diorama

• Create a diorama depicting a lily pad covered pond for a school project on “The Frog Princess” or for a science class on pond life. Paint the inside of a shoebox with blue paint representing the water. Once the blue paint dries, paint lily pads inside the shoebox with green paint. Hot gluing plastic dragonflies and frogs to the inside of the shoebox completes the diorama. Affix a crown on top of the frog’s head in the case of a book report on “The Frog Prince.”