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How to Draw a Frog Life Cycle
Draw a frog life cycle in 13 steps, about 10 minutes. Free, with a printable worksheet.
Each picture adds one red line. Draw that line, then scroll to the next picture. Rub out any dashed helper lines at the end. First up: frog eggs.
Step 1: Frog eggs
At the top draw a clump of 7 round eggs squashed together: 3 on top and 4 underneath.
Tip Frog eggs are a clump of jelly balls.
Step 2: Dots in the eggs
Colour a small black dot in the middle of every egg: that is the baby tadpole growing inside.
Step 3: The tadpole
On the right draw the tadpole: a round ball body with one big eye and a tiny smile.
Tip A tadpole is just a head with a tail: no legs yet.
Step 4: Tadpole tail
From the tadpole's back draw a wavy tail, wide at the body and thinning to a soft round tip.
Step 5: The froglet
At the bottom draw the froglet: a bean body on its side with a big eye and a smile.
Tip A froglet is in between: a tadpole body growing legs.
Step 6: Froglet tail and legs
From the froglet's back draw a tail out to a point, with fins above and below. Add 2 bean legs.
Tip The 2 fins meet just past the tail tip. Each leg ends in a round foot.
Step 7: The grown frog
On the left draw a frog head with a flat top, 2 big eyes on the corners, and a smile.
Tip The eyes sit on top like headlights, with black dots and shines.
Step 8: Frog body and arms
Start under the left cheek. Draw a fat tummy round a flat bottom, stopping under the right cheek. Add arms.
Tip Add a big oval belly patch, and bent arms with round fingers.
Step 9: Frog legs and feet
On each side of the frog draw a fat bean back leg, and a foot with 3 round toes.
Step 10: Arrows round the circle
Between each picture and the next draw a curved arrow going clockwise, with a little V head on the end.
Tip Egg, tadpole, froglet, frog: then the frog lays new eggs and it starts again.
Step 11: Cream belly, sky fin
Colour the frog's belly patch cream. Colour the froglet's fin and the egg jelly around the dots sky blue.
Step 12: Green tadpole and froglet
Colour the tadpole and the froglet leaf green: bodies, tails and legs, leaving their eyes white.
Step 13: Green frog
Colour the frog leaf green: head, tummy around the belly patch, arms, legs and feet, leaving the eyes white.
Your finished drawing
Follow the steps above and this is where you end up: a frog life cycle, drawn by you.
Every step in one picture
