Supplies for Carnival Games - Leap Frog: Stuffed Frogs Handmade Wooden Game (as seen in photo above) OR
Make a simple leap frog game using: Large blue paper or material to look like water
5 green poster board Lilly pads and one Green Alligator optional (medium sized stuffed alligator)
Several different carnival prizes including the consolation prize - depending upon how you decide the carnival game should be played.
How to Play: Before the carnival, set up a "pond" with several fake lillypads and a pretent alligator. Players are given 3 bean bag frogs to try to land on as many "Lilly pads" as possible. Every time a frog lands on a Lilly pad it counts as a point. Every time a frog lands on the alligator it subtracts a point. Children get a carnival prize based on how many total points they have after all their bean bag frogs have "leaped."
Note: One church in our neighborhood uses some handmade "frog launchers" that children hit with a light-weight mallet to make the frogs leap through the air to try to land on a lilly pad. Have a handy wood worker help with a design but always design with the safety of children first - no heavy mallets or something that could be hit with such force the flying frog could hurt a young child. The photo above was constructed for our school carnival. The kids had a ball hitting the mallet to make the frog jump to the lilly pad.
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