This paper frog craft doubles up as a cute frog gift bag. It would be fun to make as a spring craft for kids or with toddlers and preschoolers after singing the nursery rhyme 5 Little Speckled Frogs. Whatever your reason for making this cute craft simply grab the frog template and follow the step-by-step directions below to make your own frog paper craft.
Below you’ll find step-by-step instructions to make a frog gift bag using our frog template. The template also includes the pieces needed to make a duck gift bag.
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Paper Frog Craft
Supplies for your frog craft:
- Frog craft template
- Cardstock (light green, dark green, light blue, dark blue)
- White paper gift bags
- Blue paint
- Foam paint brush
- Glue stick
- Scissors
- Pencil
- Black marker
- Googly eyes
How to make your frog craft:
STEP 1: Gather your supplies
Before you get started with your frog craft, make sure to gather up all your supplies! It makes it so much easier when you aren’t chasing down all your supplies.
Be sure to print off your frog craft template. You can find it by scrolling down below.
STEP 2: Prepare your frog craft template and body parts
Cut out the frog template and trace it onto your colored cardstock.
Trace the body of the frog onto light green cardstock and cut it out. Then trace the head and legs onto dark green cardstock and cut those out. Lastly, cut a small strip of light green cardstock.
STEP 3: Glue the legs onto the frog
First things first – we need to glue on the legs! Glue the front legs onto the frog’s body and then the back legs. To create a 3D appearance, only glue at the edge of the back legs and flap up the rest as shown below.
STEP 4: Assemble the frog’s face
Next, we’re going to put together the frog’s face. Start by gluing on the googly eyes and then draw on a mouth and nostril holes with a black marker. Finally, cut small pink circles and glue them onto the frog’s cheeks.
STEP 5: Attach the frog’s head to the body
Now, you’re going to attach the frog’s head to the body. Take the light green strip of cardstock and fold it into the shape of an M as shown below.
Then, glue one end of the strip onto the frog’s body and the other end onto the head.
STEP 6: Assemble the puddle
Once you’ve done that, glue the light blue strips onto the blue puddle pieces.
STEP 6: Assemble gift bags
For the last step, it’s time to assemble the gift bags! Glue the frog on top of the puddle and then paint the gift bags with a thin coat of light blue paint using a foam paint brush. Be sure to allow the paint to dry completely before continuing.
Now, glue the frog and puddle onto the gift bag. You may also want to cut out and glue on droplets of water from blue cardstock.
And that’s it! Your paper frog craft is now complete. You can see in the images that there is also a duck version of this craft. The template has both the frog and duck crafts on it. We also have full instructions for the duck gift bag too!
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