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.
Frog Art Table of Contents
- How to Draw a Frog
- Paint a Frog
- Paper Craft Frogs
- Frog Cake
- Working with Clay
- Frog Furniture
- Moche Frog
- Make a Moche Frog
- Costa Rican Gold Frogs
- Golden Frogs
- Do you incorporate Frogs into your Art?
- Cut and Paste Paper Frogs
- Save the Frogs Art Contest
- Frog Arts and Craft Twitters
- Continue the Frog Unit Study
- Ribbiting tales of Frog Art
- About the Author of this Frog Arts and Crafts Lens:
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How to Draw a Frog
How to Draw Frogs
Frog Sketch

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

- F is for Frog
- Coloring page with the word frog to trace and letter f to color.
- Frog 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


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
Coffee can be used to paint a Frog!

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.
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Printing With Coffee
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Cafegrafia, or Coffee Art, the unique process of developing photographs using coffee as a pigment was invented by Saul Bolanos. His photos are of Costa Rican Coffee processing from a century ago. Learn how coffee is now produced in Costa Rica. Pour...
Paper Craft Frogs
Paper Craft Frogs
Origami Frogs


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.
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.

- 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
- 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

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 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
Frog Carving
Frog Totem
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

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

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

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

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

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
Mexican Self-Hardening Clay - 5 lb.
Clay for making frogs. This clay will harden by itself.
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.
Moche Art and Visual Culture in Ancient Peru
Learn about the art of the ancient Moche of Peru where this frog vessel comes from.
Aztec, Inca, and Maya (DK Eyewitness Books)
Excerpt - page 46: "... MOCHE FROG VESSEL Moche potters based their designs on fanciful and realistic ..."
Costa Rican Gold Frogs
Pre-columbian Gold Frogs at the Costa Rican National Museum
- 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
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.
Do you incorporate Frogs into your Art?
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
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.
Frog Arts and Craft Twitters
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- CVAMPIRO69
- SMALL FROG ART FIGURINE MARBLE CODE 43 http://shop.ebay.com/330381129169
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- farrellhamann
- Flickr: Photostream: http://bit.ly/2SI3oi via @addthis Mostly Fine Art (some amazingly huge projects. Really cute girl. Bitey Cats! & frog
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- Ki_Innis
- Art of Disney Blog entry on Princess and the Frog http://bit.ly/7E6PTC
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- minnnty
- Prince Naveen from Disney's new The Princess and The Frog http://davidkawena.deviantart.com/art/Disney-Heroes-Prince-Naveen-144770596
Hands-on Learning
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Frog Eggs
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Each year we eagerly await the arrival of spring to listen to the Spring Peeper and anticipate the discovery of frog eggs in the vernal pools. Frogs lay their eggs in pools, ponds, and puddles. As snow melts, low lying areas fill with water and frogs...
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Frog Unit Study: Hopping to Learn
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Industrial Waste in the Frog Pond
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Are Vernal Pools in remote rural areas of Vermont being destroyed by industrial waste? Come on a walk in the early spring. Walk through the cold wet mud and try not to slip on the remaining spots of ice as we go on a hunt for frog eggs and discover s...
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Frog Pattern Math
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When planning activities for your Frog Unit Study you might think that math would be an abstract subject that has nothing to do with frogs. In this lens we will explore ways to integrated math into your study of frogs and tadpoles. Mathematics is ba...
Ribbiting tales of Frog Art
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- Ramkitten Ramkitten Nov 17, 2009 @ 6:57 pm
- Funny, some of those frog sketches look exactly like what I used to draw all over my text book covers when I was in junior high school, which is more than twenty years ago. Funny how those cartoons don't really change.
Another excellent lens, Evelyn. You put so much work and attention to detail into them!
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- Evelyn_Saenz Evelyn_Saenz Nov 17, 2009 @ 11:37 pm
- Thank you so much, Ramkitten, What beautiful notebooks you must have had.
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- JoyfulPamela JoyfulPamela Oct 12, 2009 @ 1:30 pm
- You would laugh if you could see me now. Little guy is looking over my shoulder excitedly saying, "Can we make that, Mom? Ohhh, that one, too! That one's cute!" - I guess in 2nd grade language that would mean 5*!
Pamela
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- OneFootPutt OneFootPutt Sep 23, 2009 @ 12:17 am
- Another great lens. Frogs are so much fun, its amazing how attracted kids are to them. Can't wait to try the frog cake.
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- karanta karanta Sep 16, 2009 @ 4:30 pm
- Very nice lens :) Thanks for the "Little Frog"!
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About the Author of this Frog Arts and Crafts Lens:
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Evelyn Saenz: Lensography of a Teacher
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My passion is teaching and finding ways to teach children in fun, hands-on, creative ways. The unit studies I make on Squidoo reflect my view that learning should be integrated and no skills should be taught in isolation. I believe that each topic s...










