Let’s embark on our new project and make this cute paper frog craft. It will take some patience if you do this with young children, but it’s worth it.
Welcome spring and have fun creating this adorable amphibian sitting on a lily pad.
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Making spring crafts brings us great joy (check out our 3D Frog Coloring Pages or have fun assembling our Ladybug Paper Crafts).
Are you curious about learning How to Draw a Frog yourself? We have a how-to guide that will guide you through the steps.
Today’s crafts are all related to frogs.
Rabbit! Rabbit!
We must admit that frogs are excellent swimmers!
The sound of frogs jumping into the river is fun and interesting – it reminds us of the sound of stones when thrown into water.
So, friends, if you like frogs and want to have this paper friend by your side, get the necessary tools ready – this is an easy craft to complete!
How to make a cute paper frog
What you need:
- printable template (optional)
- pencil
- drag
- glue
- colored cardstock (light blue, pink and brown)
- colored paper (green, dark blue, red and pink)
- White paper
- black lining
- a pink or yellow pom-pom (optional, but very fun)
- circular hole punch (optional)
- circular ruler (optional)
- compass (optional)
- a small piece of cardboard
Let’s go!
Step-by-step instructions
Lily Pad
You can use our printable template to create this craft and you won’t need to measure any parts. All the stencils are right there. You can also create this without a template; Just follow this guide.
Draw a large circle on light blue cardstock (5.5 inches / 14 cm diameter) and cut it out. If you don’t have a compass, you can use a plate as a stencil.
Body
On green paper, draw a rectangle measuring 4 x 2.4 inches / 10 x 6 cm and cut it out.
Mark a line at 1.6 inches / 4 cm.
Fold the paper into a 90 degree angle.
Draw a 4.3 x 2.4 inch / 11 x 6 cm rectangle on green paper and cut it out.
At each end, mark a line at 0.4 inches / 1 cm.
Fold these two flaps inward.
Start assembling the body.
Apply glue, then bend and glue together.
The result is the frog’s body.
Glue the frog body onto the lily pad.
Feet
Draw two strips measuring 0.4 x 5.1 inches / 1 x 13 cm on green paper and cut them out.
Form the hind legs by folding the strips.
Glue the hind legs to the frog’s body.
Glue the front part of the leg onto the lily pad.
Draw two strips measuring 0.4 x 2.2 inches / 1 x 5.5 cm on green paper and cut them out.
Make a fold over each strip to form the front leg.
Glue the frog’s front legs and the front part of the legs onto the lily pad.
Toe pads (0 optional but cute)
Use a hole punch for these. If you don’t have a hole punch but are patient, you can draw twelve small circles on green paper and then cut them out.
Tape three to each foot as toe pads.
stomach
Now take dark blue paper and draw a round belly.
Cut it out and stick it on the frog’s body.
Head
Now, draw an ellipse (about 2 x 3 inches / 5 x 8 cm) on green paper and cut it out.
Eyes
Use a round punch to carve two green circles and two red circles or draw a circle and cut it out. You can make it smaller or larger depending on how big you want the frog’s eyes to be.
Glue them together in pairs, leaving a small part of the red circle exposed.
Stick them on the frog’s head.
Draw two big black eyes on white paper using a black liner and a circle ruler.
Cut them out and glue them to the green circles.
Tongue
Punch a red circle.
Cut it in half.
What you want to do now is stick half of it on the frog’s face to make a smiling mouth.
mother
On pink paper draw two small circles.
Cut them out and stick them on the frog’s face as cheeks.
Blackhead
On dark blue paper, draw some circles.
We will cut them out and stick them on the frog’s face like freckles.
Glue the head to the body.
Head support
We wanted the head to stand up straight so we hot glued a piece of cardboard behind the head to keep it upright.
Our frog is done.
Water lily (optional)
Cut a piece of brown cardstock (1.2 inches / 3 cm high) to make the water lily.
Wrap it around and seal with glue.
This brown piece will act as a stem.
Glue the stem on the lily piece to one side with hot glue.
To make the flower part of the water lily, draw two circles on the pink cardstock, one inside the other.
Make sure the circles are centered.
Draw eight petals starting from the smaller circle and working your way toward the larger circle, then cut out the flower.
Make a hole in the center of the flower, apply some hot glue inside and attach the pink glitter pom-pom.
Glue the flower to the stem with hot glue.
All has been done! We hope you had fun!
Our frog is ready to jump from lily leaf to lily leaf and enjoy the day.
That’s all for today.
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