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Art Projects for the Frog Unit Study

Art for your Frog Unit Study from how to draw frogs to painting, clay, sculptures, origami, frog cakes, Moche, Totem Poles and much much more...

Children thrive with a hands-on. creative learning experiences that help them illustrate all that they are learning in the Frog Unit Study. These multi-sensory experiences make concepts about frogs and their habitat come to life. In this lens we will look at art from various cultures, art for illustrating nature study books and three dimensional are to display a deepening knowledge of a frog's ecosystem.

Photo Credit: Frog Watercolor
on Flickr, Creative Commons.

How to Draw a Frog

How to Draw Frogs 

Frog Sketch

How to Draw a Frog

Laminate and post this How to Draw a Frog poster above the art table. It will give shy artists more confidence, inspire more details in stick figure artists and encourage more illustrations in writers who believe that they can't draw.
Froggy Coloring Book of R.W. Aristoquakes
How to Draw a Frog
Color the Frogs
Frogs to Color
F is for Frog
Coloring page with the word frog to trace and letter f to color.
Frog Drawings
Frog DrawingsFrog Drawings

Frog drawings - hop into nature and get a close look at these pencil frog drawings.

Kerry's drawings are simple and easy for children to copy and are excellent for illustrating Nature Journals or other writings.

Paint a Frog

Green Frog Paint 

Color the Frog Green

Mixing frog greenFrog Painting

Photo Credit: Frog Watercolor
on Flickr, Creative Commons.



Whether you want just straight green or you want to mix up your own there's enough paint here to paint hundreds, maybe even thousands frogs.

Set out lots of yellow and some blue and let the kids mix the colors to make various shades of green.

Large paper covered in shades of green can be cut into frog or vegetation shapes to create bulletin boards, collages or other froggy art projects.

Chinese Watercolor Techniques - Painting Animals

Chinese Watercolor Techniques: Painting Animals provides a powerful look at the contrasts between painting philosophies in the East and West. It's the perfect way to step into the international art world!

A wide variety of appealing animal subjects, including horses, cats, tigers, dogs. frogs and more

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Art Alternatives Pocket Watercolor Set

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Royal Watercolor & Brush Set

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Coffee can be used to paint a Frog! 

Frog Painting

Photo Credit: Frog Painted with Coffee
on Flickr, Creative Commons.



Make some very, very strong coffee and use it as watercolor paint. You can produce different shades by manipulating the amount of water that you mix into the coffee. Try painting frogs with coffee.

Learn more about how coffee can be used as a pigment not only for painting frogs but also instead of chemicals in photo processing.

Paper Craft Frogs

Paper Craft Frogs 

Origami Frogs

Origami FrogsPaper Frog

Photo Credit: Origami Frog Template on Flickr, Creative Commons.
Photo Credit: Origami Jumping Frogon Flickr, Creative Commons.



Click on the link below to learn how to make origami frogs. My kindergarteners and first graders learned quickly and had them hopping all around the room. We measured how far each would jump, tried different kinds of paper and made a museum display of the prettiest ones.
Tree frog - Other Animals - Animals - Paper CraftCanon CREATIVE PARK
Paper Craft available for free download.

Make a FROG! 

Cut and paste a frog.

Print this picture out on cardstock. Cut and fold it to make a frog. Make frog eggs by drawing black dots on lima beans.

Roll dice to find out how many eggs are in each mother frog. Put that many into the frog.

Variation: Roll two dice and add or multiply.

Make a Frog
Frog Box
Cut out and fold the frog box. Use it for keeping small objects such as the Lima bean frogs and toads for math workjobs.
Frogs from the Toymaker
My odd, little world of paper toys, holiday cards, valentines, sun boxs, baskets and bags, origami and ephemera... all for you to make.It is my wish to amuse and delight.
HowStuffWorks "Puddle-Jumping Frog"
The puddle-jumping frog is a craft kids can bend and shape. Learn how to make this fun frog craft in this article.

Origami: Jumpin' Frog 

Printable Frogs

Jumping Frog

Photo Credit: Articulated Frog
used by Permission, All Rights Reserved.

Color Me Frog
Have the children color and cut out a picture of a frog. Use brads to create moveable parts.
Origami: Jumpin' Frog
Click to print a copy of the directions. This could be laminated and posted in the art center.
Printable Checkers Game: Frog vs. Beaver
Frog Checkers

Click to print the checkers board and playing pieces. This could be laminated and put in a folder in the game center. Use a manila envelope with a tie string to hold the pieces. Checkers is a good game for practicing strategy and logical thinking.
Cut Out + Keep Origami Frogs
Get hopping happy with some cute frogs.: Cat Morley's step-by-step craft tutorial - Make yours in 10 minutes (19 steps). One of thousands of tutorials!

Frog Cake

Frog Cakes 

Frog Birthday Party Cake

Frog CakeFrog Cake

Frog cakes can be made with playdough. These activities promote oral language and communication skills as well as fine and gross motor coordination and artistic expression.

If you make your own play dough it is quite inexpensive.

This center can be set up as a bakery and include a cash register for the children to practice math skills when selling their frog cakes to children coming from other centers such at the Frog Tea Time Center.
Coolest Homemade Frog Birthday Cakes and How-To Tips
Take a look at the coolest homemade Frog birthday cakes. You'll also find the most amazing photo gallery of homemade birthday cakes, how-to tips and lots of original party ideas

Working with Clay

Life Cycle Of A Frog - Claymation 

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Frog Carving

Frog Totem 

Frogs are used in art from many cultures. The frog below comes from the Tlingit tradition of the Native People of the North West Coast of North America.

Research the clans of the Northwest and then make your own totem poles. Frogs are one type of animal typically found in Totem Poles. You might make totem poles from cardboard boxes stacked one above the other.
Alaskan and Pacific Northwest Coast Totem and Wildlife Art-Frog Totem II
Frog Art

Traditional and contemporary native American and wildlife art inspired by the pacific northwest and Alaska.

Frogs generally represent good luck to the Northwest Coast peoples and it was not considered wise to demean or injure them.
Northwest Indian Totem Pole
Making a Totem Pole Northwest Indian Totem Pole

Giving an Oral Book Report on Northwest Coast Indians at our Indian Feast
Totem Pole
Totem Pole with Frog

Totem Poles were carved from trees by Native Americans in the Pacific Northwest. Poles represent a family's history, and the animals that are important to the heritage. This Totem Pole has the Thunderbird, the Frog meaning great wealth, and the Bear,
a caring and nurturing figure.

Frog Furniture 

Frog Step Stool

This step stool could be used for young children to better reach the sink or possibly as a book shelf for frog stories.
Freddie - Frog Step Stool
This friendly frog could be the fabled Prince waiting for a kiss! Or maybe he's just waiting around to help with brushing teeth at the sink or hopping in and out of the tub. The broad green body, large round eyes, black spots and big smile will make a great accent in your toddler's bathroom or bedroom. Rrrrrrribbit.
Frog Book Box
RCJ specialises in customized and unique products for the library, school, and child care and office industries.
Frog Bookshelf
Frog Bookshelf

Solid Wood, Hand Painted Frog Bookcase, step stool, chair and waste basket.

This frog themed bookshelf could be used to display books and other items that would be found at the different levels in the pond. On the top shelf might be frogs, insects that they eat and books about them. The middle shelf could display tadpoles, tadpole stories and predictors that eat tadpoles. The bottom shelf could be the place for information on hibernation of frogs, mud and how frogs survive winter and droughts.

Moche Frog 

Frog Sculpture

Moche Frog

Photo Credit: Name
on Wikimedia Commons.

Frog - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Moche people of ancient Peru worshiped animals and often depicted frogs in their art.
Figural vessel in the form of a Frog
This stirrup spout vessel depicting a life-like frog attests to the Moche artist's awareness of the natural world. Such careful naturalistic portrayals of animals are common in Early Moche ceramics.

This rotund fellow with his alert wide-eyed gaze and attentive posture seems all to ready to ambush an unsuspecting fly. It is slip painted in cream and the head tilts upwards exposing a rosy orange gullet beneath the determined, down-turned mouth. Images of frogs and toads are common in the art of many Pre-Columbian cultures. Frogs were common in the river valleys where the Moche lived.

Make a Moche Frog 

Sculpting Frogs

Understanding of the art of other cultures becomes more personal when the children are able to create works of art in the styles of the cultures they are studying. Here are the materials needed to make your own frog vessel while learning more about the Moche culture who made the original Frog Vessel.

Mexican Self-Hardening Clay - 5 lb.

Clay for making frogs. This clay will harden by itself.

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Handbuilt Pottery Techniques Revealed: The secrets of handbuilding shown in unique cutaway photography

Learn about pottery and how to make a pot like the Frog vessel made by the Moche.

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Moche Art and Visual Culture in Ancient Peru

Learn about the art of the ancient Moche of Peru where this frog vessel comes from.

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Aztec, Inca, and Maya (DK Eyewitness Books)

Excerpt - page 46: "... MOCHE FROG VESSEL Moche potters based their designs on fanciful and realistic ..."

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Costa Rican Gold Frogs 

Pre-columbian Gold Frogs at the Costa Rican National Museum

Pre-columbian Gold Frogs

Photo Credit: Gold Frogs
on Flickr, Creative Commons.

Museo Nacional de Costa Rica - Pre-Columbian Gold
Pre-columbian artisans molded gold into frogs. These frogs are on display at the National Museum in San Jose, Costa Rica.

Golden Frogs 

Make your own Gold Frogs

Make your own gold frogs.

1. Push clay into the molds.
2. Let the frogs dry.
3. Spray with gold spray paint.

Use these frogs as math manipulatives, game pieces or in a multitude of other imaginative ways.

FROG Animal Candy Mold Chocolate

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Do you incorporate Frogs into your Art? 

What kind of a frog artist are you?

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Drawing and Painting Frogs

Sculpting and Carving Frogs

 

Cut and Paste Paper Frogs 

papercraft: Papercraft Frog by Keiji Kawaguchi
Papercraft Frog by Keiji Kawaguchi

This is a Paper frog. It is very well made.Template is here: http://img512.imageshack.us/img512/7162/1182299673919w
Frog Papercraft Template
Tyler Tinsley papercraft toy.

Save the Frogs Art Contest 

Save the Frogs Art Contest



When is the entry deadline?

A call for entries for the 2010 contest will go out in March 2010. Please be sure to sign up for the mailing list

Who can enter?

Anybody! We encourage students and teachers to get their art classes involved. We encourage amateur and professional artists and graphic designers to take part as well. And the more countries represented the better!

The contest is free to enter!

The 2009 contest is finished. We expect to announce a winner by November 12th, 2009.

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