7 Fun Frog Crafts for Kids

Spring brings warm weather and new life. Soon, one sees little tadpoles swimming in the pond and thinks of frog crafts for kids. Here's a list of 7 fun and easy frog crafts to do with your classroom or kids at home. I especially like the frog life cycle craft using bubble wrap. Choose the one best for you and raise a few tadpoles to go along with it.

 

1. Heart Frog Craft

Joys of Home Educating

 

2. Easy Frog Face Craft

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3. Jumping Frog Clapper Toy Craft

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4. Speckled Frog Craft

Kiboomu

 

5. Easy Paper Plate Frog Craft

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6. Paper Plate Frog Puppet Craft

DLTK

 

7. Frog Life Cycle Craft

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Valentine's Day Heart Frog Preschool Craft

Use various sized hearts to create this cute frog for Valentine's Day. Surprise somebody special with this unique animal craft, perfect for preschool students. Go to Joys of Home Educating for this and many other great Valentine's Day craft ideas.

Joys of Home Educating

Jumping Frog Clapper Toy Craft

 

This is a cute craft to my 2nd grade daughter made at her Japanese elementary school. It's a jumping frog clapper toy made from a recycled milk carton. It's a common toy for elementary school in Japan. It's fun and easy to make. Thanks Hana for helping me with this.

 

Materials:

 

• milk carton
• scissors
• tape
• 2 rubber bands
• markers to decorate

 

Directions:

 

 

1. Cut open the milk carton and lay it flat like this. 

 

 2. Cut off the top flap and the bottom square and discard. You are left with 4 panels. Cut these in half as shown so you have a 2 sets, each with 2 panels. You can make 2 clappers from these.

 

 3. Take one, 2 panel set and fold in half lengthwise along the crease. Tape the opposite side shut.

 

 4. Now fold in half.

 

 5. Now, cut in half along the fold you just made. Tape the 2 halves back together, with just a tiny gap between. This makes for a better clap sound.

 

 6. Fold together and cut a pair of "v" shaped notches on either side like this.

 

 7. Wrap 2 rubber bands around one side in the notches, twist once and wrap around the other side.

 

 8. If you open it flat, it looks like this.

 9. Fold it over and hold down with your finger. Let go, and it will jump up and snap together. Another way, it to fold it closed and then throw into the air and it makes  loud clapping sound. Sory, it's nearly imposible to take a picture in action.  Afterward, you can decorate with markers or stickers how you like. See whose can make the loudest clap or jump the highest.

 

Frog Face Paper Shapes Craft

Here's a cute frog face paper shapes craft my 4 year old daughter made at school. The whole thing is made from circles. It's not so posh looking, but the important thing is that thing is hat she made it herself from start to finish.

Materials:

• green and red construction paper
• white paper
• pencil
• scissors
• 1 large, 1 medium, and 1 small circle template(from paper plates, cups, bowls, or lids)
• Glue

Directions:

1. Trace and cut out 1 large circle and 2 small circles from green construction paper.
2. Trace and cut out 1 medium red circle from red construction paper.
3. Trace and cut out 2 small circles from white paper.
4. Glue the red circle in the middle of the big green one to make the mouth.
5. Glue the white circles on the small green ones. Draw eyes.
6. Fold the bottom of the eyes and glue to the top of the head.
7. Sing a frog song.

  

Summer Frog Craft

Here's a simple and cute frog craft for summer fun.

Materials:

• green construction paper
• scissors
• frog template(available from the link below)
• various colored paint
• toothbrushes
• Q-tips
• google eyes
• glue
• buttons or sequins(optional)

Directions:

1. Print out the frog template and use it to cut out the frog shape.
2. Dip a toothbrush in paint and use your thumb to flick paint onto the frog.
3. Dip Q-tips into paint to make dots. Allow to dry.
4. You could also glue on buttons or sequins.(optional)
5. Glue on 2 google eyes.

Source: Kiboomu

Easy Paper Plate Frog Crafts

Here are two great and simple ideas to make a frog from a paper plate.

4 legged Frog

Materials:

• 1 paper plate
• green paint
• green construction paper
• 2 small cotton balls or google eyes
• black marker
• scissors
• glue

Directions:

1. Paint the bottom of a paper plate green and allow to dry.
2. Cut 2 long front legs and 2 back legs at right angles from green paper as shown.
3. Glue the legs onto the unpainted side.
4. Glue 2 mini cotton balls for eyes and add black paper dots or use google eyes.
5. Draw 2 dots for a nose with a marker.

2 legged frog

Materials:

• 1 paper plate
• green paint
• green construction paper
• pencil
• scissors
• 2 white circles for eyes
• black marker
• pink pipe cleaner for a mouth

Directions:

1. Paint the bottom of a paper plate green. Allow to dry.
2. Trace and cut out hand prints from green construction paper.
3. Glue hand prints to the unpainted side of the paper plate to look like a squatting frog.
4. Glue on white circles for eyes and draw a pupil with a black marker.
5. Glue on a piece of pink pipe cleaner for a mouth.

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Paper Plate Frog Craft

Here's another classic craft from DLTK. Make a frog puppet from a paper plate.

Materials:

• 1 paper plate
• green construction paper
• red construction paper
• green and red paint
• glue
• scissors
• template for eyes, legs, arms, and tongue

Directions:

1. Paint the bottom of a paper plate green and the top red. Allow to dry.
2. Fold the paper plate so the red is on the inside to make the mouth of the puppet.
3. Cut out all the eyes, arms, and legs from green and the tongue from red paper.
4. Glue the arms on the side, inside the mouth, the legs on the bottom, the eyes on top, and the tongue sticking out of the mouth.

Here's the DLTK Template

Frog Life Cycle Craft

This is a cute craft about frogs and tadpoles, good follow up to teaching about the life cycle of frogs or reading the story "Fish is Fish" by leo lionni.

Materials:

• sheet of white paper
• little frogs and Lilly pads cut from coloring pages
• bubble wrap
• blue paint with brushes
• black marker
• scissors
• glue
• crayons

Directions:

1. Color and cut out frogs and Lilly pads from coloring page, 2 per child.
2. Draw two small tadpoles on paper(just a black oval with a tail) with a marker
3. Brush blue paint over bubble wrap.
4. Press paper on bubble wrap for pond effect.
5. Glue on lily pads with frogs sitting on top.