This is an easy paper roll frog craft made using our favourite “squash and cut” technique. Printable shape template included.

I have a thing for frog crafts. Earlier this year I shared a bouncy paper frog and a frog habitat garden, and our tadpole to frog observation tank is popular EVERY year with my girls. They can never get enough of watching these creatures transform from wriggly little vegetarian tadpoles into meat-eating, hopping froglets.

Today we have a cute paper roll frog craft, which is a cinch to make using our printable template.

Frog craft ideas are great for Spring time or for kids learning about life cycles, mini beasts or amphibians – or just because you love frogs and want to make one!

The good thing about this frog craft is that you get to recycle (or upcycle) at the same time, and the finished paper roll frog makes a cute DIY toy that kids will love to include in their imaginary play games.

I’m addicted to coming up with new squash and cut paper roll creations. It really is an easy, fun and almost magical way to create an animal from a paper roll. It’s the same technique I’ve used to make our paper roll dinosaurs, fish, and last week’s black cats.

Here is how you can make a frog…

How to make a paper roll frog

You will need

• An empty paper towel roll (or toilet roll)
• This printable frog template
• Acrylic paint
• Googly Eyes
• Craft glue
• Scissors, paintbrush and pen or pencil for tracing the shape

How to:

Print out the template and cut it out
Flatten your paper roll
Trace around the frog shape template, and sketch in the leg line
Cut out the shape, then pop the roll back into a cylinder shape. Bend the legs outwards, and fold the head down and, presto, you have a frog!
Paint your frog and allow to dry, then decorate with spots and googly eyes (or you can paint eyes on). Paint a line down the centre of each leg so that they look like a frogs folded legs.

All done!