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Animal Hats - Book Marks - Animal Facts - Links
The Adventures of Green Frog and Red Fox
These two curious buddies keep learning lifes lessons the hard way.
Getting themselves in trouble with nature and other animals in the forest is only half the story.
Armed with the quick mind of Green Frog, they always keep one step away from disaster.
The Adventures of Green Frog and Red Fox is a chapter book written for ages 6-10 years.
All of the illustrations are designed with geometrical shapes to help preschool children
become acquainted with math as older ones in the family point out the shapes in each story.
Proceeds from the sale of this book will be donated to:
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ANIMAL HATS
Need:
- 1- Sheet of daily newspaper
- 1- 14 x 24 sheet of Red Poster Board (for Fox)
- 1- 14 x 24 sheet of Green Poster Board (for Frog)
- 1 - 4 x 8 piece of Yellow Poster Board (for Frog)
- Glue Stick
- Scissors
- Marker
- Round lid that measures approximately 3½ diameter (template for Frog eyes)
- Fig. 1
- Fold sheet of newspaper in half
- Fig. 2
- (With the open end facing you)
- Fold upper left and upper right corners down and in to center.
- Fig. 3
- Fold bottom rectangle flaps up
- (one to the front side and the other to the back side)
- Fig. 4
- Tuck in the ends of rectangle flaps (to make a triangle)
- Fig. 5
- a. Pick up hat and hold with open end facing you.
- b. Place your thumbs on the inside center and pull open all the way until you make a diamond.
- c. Lay diamond shape flat on table and press flat.
- Fig. 6
- (open end facing you)
- Fold bottom halves up to make a triangle
- (one to the front side and the other to the back side)
Frog Hat:
- 1.
- Place folded newspaper triangle on Green Poster Board and draw around
- with marker to make two triangles the size of hat. Cut out Green Triangles
- 2.
- a. Place 3½ diameter lid on 4 x 8 Yellow Poster Board
and draw around with marker to make two circles.
- b. Cut out Yellow Circles in the shape of an ice cream cone (Fig.7)
- 3.
- (with open end of hat facing you)
- a. Slip Yellow ice cream Circles inside of folded hat 1 ½ down from top
corner and glue (Fig 8)
- b. Glue the left and right edges of the newspaper together and hand press
(Fig 8)
- 4.
- Spread glue on outside edges of Green Triangles and stick one on front and one on back of newspaper hat (Fig 9)
Fox Hat:
- 1.
- Place folded newspaper triangle on Red Poster Board and draw around
with marker to make two triangles the size of hat. Cut out Red Triangles
- 2.
- With remaining Red Poster Board cut out two ear shapes (Fig. 10)
- 3.
- (with open end of hat facing you)
- a. Slip Red Shape Ears inside of folded hat 1 ½ down from top
corner and glue (Fig 11)
- b. Glue the left and right edges of the newspaper together and hand press
(Fig 11)
- 4.
- Spread glue on outside edges of Red Triangles and stick one on front and one on back of newspaper hat (Fig 12)
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Book Marks
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Each Book Mark measures 2"x6"
All Book Marks are $1.50 each
A set of all 10 for $12.00
Order with (B#) to the lower left of each Book Mark
Include number of Book Marks and total cost
Please enclose check or money order made out to
Green Frog and Red Fox
Include return address and E-Mail address.
Mail to:
Green Frog and Red Fox
1007 River View Dr.
Norman, Ok 73071
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Animal Facts
A 1,200-pound horse eats about seven times it's own weight
each year.
A bird requires more food in proportion to its size than a baby or a
cat.
A cat sees about six times better than a human at night because of the
tapetum lucidum , a layer of extra reflecting cells which absorb light.
A cat uses its whiskers to determine if a space is too small to squeeze
through. The whiskers act as feelers or antennae, helping the animal to
judge the precise width of any passage.
A cat will clean itself with paw and tongue after a dangerous
experience or when it has fought with another cat. This is believed to be
an attempt by the animal to soothe its nerves by doing something natural
and instinctive.
A cat's arching back is part of a complex body language system, usually
associated with feeling threatened. The arch is able to get so high
because the cat's spine contains nearly 60 vertebrae which fit loosely
together. Humans have only 34 vertebrae
A cat's jaws cannot move sideways.
A chameleon's tongue is twice the length of its body.
A chimpanzee can learn to recognize itself in a mirror, but monkeys
can't.
A Cornish game hen is really a young chicken, usually 5 to 6 weeks of
age, that weighs no more than 2 pounds
A cow gives nearly 200,000 glasses of milk in her lifetime.
A female mackerel lays about 500,000 eggs at one time.
A Holstein's spots are like a fingerprint or snowflake. No two cows
have exactly the same pattern of spots.
A newborn kangaroo is about 1 inch in
length
A quarter of the horses in the US died of a vast virus epidemic in
1872.
A rat can last longer without water than a camel can.
A typical bed usually houses over 6 billion dust mites.
A woodpecker can peck twenty times a second.
A zebra is white with black stripes.
All clams start out as males; some decide to become females at some
point in their lives.
All pet hamsters are descended from a single female wild golden hamster
found with a litter of 12 young in Syria in 1930.
An adult lion's roar can be heard up to five miles away, and warns off
intruders or reunites scattered members of the pride.
Ancient Egyptians believed that "Bast" was the mother of all
cats on Earth.
Animal gestation periods: the shortest is the American opossum, which
bears its young 12 to 13 days after conception; the longest is the Asiatic
elephant, taking 608 days, or just over 20 months.
Ants are social insects and live in colonies which may have as many as
500,000 individuals.
Ants don't sleep.
At 188 decibels, the whistle of the blue whale is the loudest sound
produced by any animal.
Australian termites have been known to build mounds twenty feet high
and at least 100 feet wide.
Beaver teeth are so sharp that Native Americans once used them as knife
blades.
Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand.
Catfish have 100,000 taste buds.
Cats are the only domestic animals that walk directly on their claws,
not on their paws.
When cats scratch furniture, it isn't an act of malice. They are actually
tearing off the ragged edges of the sheaths of their talons to expose the
new sharp ones beneath. Cats have a third eyelid called a haw and you will
probably only see it when kitty isn't feeling well.
Cats have amazing hearing ability. A cat's ear has 30 muscles that
control the outer ear (by comparison, human ears only have six muscles).
These muscles rotate 180 degrees, so the cat can hear in all directions
without moving its head.A cat has four rows of whiskers.
Cats have more than one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs only have
about ten.
Cats purr at about 26 cycles per second, the same frequency as an
idling diesel engine.
Cats step with both left legs, then both right legs when they walk or
run. The only other animals to do this are the giraffe and the camel.
Certain frogs can be frozen solid then thawed and continue living.
Cheetahs make a chirping sound that is much like a bird's chirp or a
dog's yelp. The sound is so an intense, it can be heard a mile away.
Dragonflies are one of the fastest insects, flying 50 to 60 mph.
Each year, insects eat 1/3 of the Earth's food crop.
Elephants can communicate using sounds that are below the human hearing
range: between 14 and 35 hertz.
Every known dog except the chow has a pink tongue - the chow's tongue
is jet black.
Felix the Cat is the first cartoon character to ever have been made
into a balloon for a parade.
Goldfish lose their color if they are kept in dim light or are placed
in a body of running water, such as a stream.
Howler monkeys are the noisiest land animals. Their calls can be heard
over 2 miles away.
Hummingbirds are the smallest birds - so tiny that one of their enemies
is an insect, the praying mantis.
In its entire lifetime, the average worker bee produces 1/12th
teaspoon
of honey.
Infant beavers are called kittens.
It takes a lobster approximately seven years to grow to be one pound.
It takes forty minutes to hard boil an ostrich egg.
Large kangaroos cover more than 30 feet with each jump.
Lassie was played by several male dogs, despite the female name,
because male collies were thought to look better on camera.
Mockingbirds can imitate any sound from a squeaking door to a cat
meowing.
Moles are able to tunnel through 300 feet of earth in a day.
No two spider webs are the same.
Only full-grown male crickets can chirp.
Owls have eyeballs that are tubular in shape, because of this, they
cannot move their eyes.
Parrots, most famous of all talking birds, rarely acquire a vocabulary
of more than twenty words, however Tymhoney Greys and African Greys have
been know to carry vocabularies in excess of 100 words.
Pekingese dogs were sacred to the emperors of China for more than 2,000
years. They are one of the oldest breeds of dogs in the world.
Pigs, walruses and light-colored horses can be sunburned.
Prairie dogs are not dogs. A prairie dog is a kind of rodent.
Sharks apparently are the only animals that never get sick. As far as
is known, they are immune to every known disease including cancer.
Snails produce a colorless, sticky discharge that forms a protective
carpet under them as they travel along. The discharge is so effective that
they can crawl along the edge of a razor without cutting themselves.
Snakes are immune to their own poison.
Some baby giraffes are more than six feet tall at birth.
The 1st buffalo ever born in captivity was born at Chicago's Lincoln
Park Zoo in 1884.
The average adult male ostrich, the world's largest living bird, weighs
up to 345 pounds.
The biggest member of the cat family is the male lion, which weighs 528
pounds
The bones of a pigeon weigh less than its feathers.
The cheetah is the only cat in the world that can't retract its claws
The dachshund is one of the oldest dog breeds in history
The fastest bird is the Spine-tailed swift, clocked at speeds of up to
220 miles per hour.
The fastest -moving land snail, the common garden snail, has a speed of
0.0313 mph.
The first seeing-eye dog was presented to a blind person on April 25,
1938.
The giant squid is the largest creature without a backbone. It weighs
up to 2.5 tons and grows up to 55 feet long. Each eye is a foot or more in
diameter.
The hummingbird is the only bird that can fly backwards.
The hummingbird, the loon, the swift, the kingfisher, and the grebe are
all birds that cannot walk.
The Kiwi, national bird of New Zealand, can't fly. It lives in a hole
in the ground, is almost blind, and lays only one egg each year. Despite
this, it has survived for more than 70 million years.
The largest animal ever seen alive was a 113.5 foot, 170-ton female
blue whale.
The mouse is the most common mammal in the US.
The name of the dog on the Cracker Jack box is Bingo.
The normal temperature of a cat is 101.5 degrees.
The only domestic animal not mentioned in the Bible is the cat.
The Pacific Giant Octopus, the largest octopus in the world, grows from
the size of pea to a 150 pound behemoth potentially 30 feet across in only
two years, its entire life-span.
The pigmy shrew - a relative of the mole - is the smallest mammal in
North America. It weighs 1/14 ounce - less than a dime.
The poison-arrow frog has enough poison to kill about 2,200 people.
The poisonous copperhead snake smells like fresh cut cucumbers.
The smallest of the recognized dog breeds, the Chihuahua, is also the
one that usually lives the longest. Named for the region of Mexico where
they were first discovered in the mid-19th century, the Chihuahua can live
anywhere between 11-18 years.
The theobromine in chocolate that stimulates the cardiac and nervous
systems is too much for dogs, especially smaller pups. A chocolate bar is
poisonous to dogs and can even be lethal.
The turbot fish lays approximately 14 million eggs during its lifetime.
The turkey was named for what was wrongly thought to be its country of
origin.
The underside of a horse's hoof is called a frog. The frog peels off
several times a year with new growth.
The world record frog jump is 33 feet 5.5 inches over the course of 3
consecutive leaps, achieved in May 1977 by a South African sharp-nosed
frog called Santjie.
The world's largest mammal, the blue whale, weighs 50 tons at birth.
Fully grown, it weighs as much as 150 tons.
The world's largest rodent is the Capybara. An Amazon water hog that
looks like a guinea pig, it can weigh more than 100 pounds.
The world's smallest mammal is the bumblebee bat of Thailand, weighing
less than a penny.
There are 701 types of pure breed dogs.
There are around 2,600 different species of frogs. They live on every
continent except Antarctica.
There are more insects in one square mile of rural land than there are
human beings on the entire earth.
There are more than 100 million dogs and cats in the United States.
Americans spend more than 5.4 billion dollars on their pets each year.
There are more than 900,000 known species of insects in the world.
There is no single cat called the panther. The name is commonly applied
to the leopard, but it is also used to refer to the puma and the jaguar. A
black panther is really a black leopard.
Though human noses have an impressive 5 million olfactory cells with
which to smell, sheepdogs have 220 million, enabling them to smell 44
times better than man.
Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
Walt Disney's family dog was named Lady. She was a poodle.
When a female horse and male donkey mate, the offspring is called a
mule, but when a male horse and female donkey mate, the offspring is
called a hinny.
When a queen bee lays the fertilized eggs that will develop into new
queens, only one of the newly laid queens actually survives. The first new
queen that emerges from her cell destroys all other queens in their cells
and, thereafter, reigns alone.
When ants find food, they lay down a chemical trail, called a
pheromone, so that other ants can find their way from the nest to the food
source.
Worker ants may live seven years and the queen may live as long as 15
years.
You're more likely to be a target for mosquitoes if you consume
bananas.
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