Frog Jumping!

Yesterday after church, Brian and the kids decided to have a frog jumping contest, using little folded paper frogs. The kids were excited and started making frogs right away.

(I think in the end Brian ended up making most of the frogs...)

Hannah & Courtney decided to "dress up" their frogs. At first they were going to cut out paper clothes to tape on their frogs, but we convinced them the frogs would jump better if they just colored on the frogs. Here are their frogs. You can see Hannah's frog (on the left) is even wearing a helmet! (The chin strap goes all the way underneath, too.)

Time for the race! First frog across the kitchen to the carpet wins (fewest number of jumps). On your mark, get set, go!

Here's McKay jumping his frog...

And Hannah trying to get hers to go...

And this is how Courtney spent a good part of the competition... hollering loudly in tears...

Her frog was not doing as well as the others (except for Hayley's) and she has a really hard time when she's losing (at anything). She was also upset that we gave Hayley a couple of extra jumps during her turn because her frog just wasn't going anywhere (and even after extra jumps she was still in last place).

The final race picture I took...

I think it was sort of a tie between Brian's & McKay's frogs, although McKay will probably claim he won (he is very competitive) despite the question of exactly how many turns he'd had. :-) All in all, it was a fun little activity!