Created for Book Week 2026
Celebrate The Frog's First Song by Jazz Money and Jason Phu with this cross-curricular activity pack, designed to inspire creativity, courage and reflection in primary classrooms.
This resource is packed with craft, literacy and maths activities inspired by the frog's journey to find his voice under the moonlit sky. Perfect for planning a whole-day Symphony of Stories experience or weaving into your Book Week celebrations!
What's included:
Book Craft
3D Frog Pond Diorama - students colour, cut and assemble a 3D pond scene with the frog perched on his lily pad (colour and black & white versions included)
Differentiated Literacy Activities
Open-ended writing prompts - respond to prompts inspired by themes of courage, firsts and finding your voice, with matching lined writing templates
Origin tale - students invent their own animal origin tale, with a planning table and lined writing page
Story retell - draw and write what happens at the beginning, middle and end of the story
Story mountain - plot the story's events across the five story stages
Personification match - match personification examples from the story to the correct picture
Personification draw & write - draw the personification examples, then write your own
Hunting for onomatopoeia - find onomatopoeia in the story and create a noisy word list
Comic strip - retell an exciting part of the story with sound effects in speech bubbles
Differentiated Mathematics Activities
Frog word problems - addition & subtraction, addition & subtraction with regrouping, and multi-step problems
2D shapes - solve the clues to identify and draw different 2D shapes
Measuring leaps - estimate and measure jump distances in centimetres and millimetres, plus a partner jumping challenge
Design Activities
Design a poster - advertise the frogs' moonlight concert
Book cover - design a cover for the next book in the series
Song album - design a song album for the frogs' song
Moon's gift - design an alternative gift from the moon to the frogs
Want it all?
Grab the matching The Frog's First Song slide deck to bring the story to life. Includes writing prompts and maths tasks (linked to the worksheets), as well as additional design prompts.
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