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3D Printable Frog Craft

Hop into Spring topic with a 3D Printable Frog Craft – A lovely frog on a lily pad craft for kids to color and make!

Used as an independent frog coloring and craft activity for kids OR paired with our Frog Life Cycle spinner toy, Arty Crafty Kids will have a wonderful time creating these cheerful froggy characters.

Our frog design uses simple 3D effects to enhance the appearance of frog, to make it literally pop (or hop) from the lily pad!

This is an engaging way for kids to learn about perspective, while using their creativity to bring their frogs to life.

Jump into Spring with this fun and easy to make 3D printable frog craft for kids. Complete with a printable template, this craft is perfect for home and in the classroom.

How to Make the 3D Printable Frog Craft

Materials:

White Card Stock or Paper for Printing
A Favorite Coloring Medium
Glue Stick
Scissors

Downloading the Frog Template:

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Watch the Step-by-Step Process and Make the Frog Craft

Let’s Make a Frog on a Lily Pad!

Image featuring a hand coloring in the frog printable template.

Step 1: Creatively Color in Printable Frog Template.

Use a favorite medium (or exploring something new), whether that’s crayons, pencils, marker pens or even paint, to complete the frog.

Image featuring a completed colored in frog that's multiple shades of green with pink spots.

Kids can opt for traditional colors for their frogs or take inspiration from the amazing variety of frog species found around the world in the wild.

Here’s a list of colorful frogs for children to research:

Red-eyed tree frog (Agalychnis callidryas) – bright green body with blue and yellow markings, and of course, striking red eyes.
Blue poison dart frog (Dendrobates tinctorius azureus) – bright blue body with black spots, found in the rainforests of South America.
Strawberry poison dart frog (Oophaga pumilio) – bright red body with blue or black legs, found in Central America.
Golden poison dart frog (Phyllobates terribilis) – bright yellow body with black spots, known for being one of the most toxic animals on earth.
Green and black poison dart frog (Dendrobates auratus) – green body with black markings, found in Central and South America.

Image featuring hands cutting the frog's body piece to divide it into 3 segments.

Step 2: Cut out the Frog element.

Our frog printable is divided into two key parts; the lily pad and frog body/legs.

Put the lily pad to one side.

Carefully cut along the dotted lines of the body element to divide it into 3 parts: a wide frog body in the middle with two spotty legs either side.

Image featuring hands folding the adjoining flap to the cut up strips.

Step 3: Turn the Frogs Body and Leg element over and fold the joining flap.

Image featuring a hand applying glue to the flap of the frog's body element.

Step 4: Apply a generous spread of glue along the fold.

Image featuring hands glueing the frog's body to the lily pad.

Step 5: Turn the frog element over and affix the fold to the top of the lily pad.

Image featuring hands rolling the largest strip to create a 3D frog's body.

Step 6: Take the middle section of the frog element and roll it over to the front of the lily pad – apply a generous spread of glue to the frogs feet and affix to the lily pad.

Image featuring hands holding the craft to the side to display the arch of the frog body piece.

From a side view, the frog’s body should appear like a big arch; creating an amazing 3D effect that enhances the round shape of the frog.

Image featuring hands rolling the frog's leg over to create a 3D effect.

Step 7: Roll one of the frog legs over to form an arch and affix to the front of the lily pad.

Image featuring hands showcasing the frog craft to demonstrate the 3d effect of the nearly affixed frog leg.

To help separate the appearance of the frog’s body from the legs, try glueing the foot at a slight angle away from its body.

Image featuring a hand securing the second frog leg.

Step 8: Roll the second frog leg from the back to the front of the lily pad and affix.

To micro the first leg, affix the second frog leg at an angle.

Image featuring hands applying glue to the bottom of the head piece.

Step 9: Apply a generous spread of glue to the bottom of the frogs head and attach it to the frogs body.

The printable frog template also features optional eyebrows that will add a ‘cartoon’ feel to the craft – perfect if your Arty Crafty Kids are aiming for a ‘Kermit the Frog’ styled character.

Image featuring the completed 3D Printable Frog Crafts.

The frog craft is now complete!

I hope your Arty Crafty Kids have enjoyed using their creativity to color and make our frogs on a lily pad.

By the end of this tutorial, they would have learnt how to use simple 3D effects to enhance their craft and bring their colorful frogs to life.

More 3D Paper Animal Crafts for Kids:

For further exploration into the world of 3D effects within paper crafts, take a look at this collection of tried and tested crafts!

As always, we love to see Arty Crafty Kids’ creativity in action and if you happen to share their completed makes on social media, please do give us a tag or/and use the #artycraftykids – happy crafting!