Frogs and Tadpoles Guided Drawing
Tadpole:
1. Draw a circle for the head.
2. Draw a wavy line for the top of the tail.
3. Draw another wavy line for the bottom of the tail and connect
it to the top of the tail, forming a point at the end as shown.
4. Make a face on the tadpole as shown.
5. Draw a wavy line above the tadpole to show that he lives in the
water. To make some bubbles, add some small circles coming up from his head towards the
surface of the water.
6. Give your tadpole a friend to swim around with.
Happy
Mad
Scared
Silly
Sleepy
Frog
1. Draw a large circle for the body.
2. Make a capital letter L for one leg, and then put another one on top it. Close it with a
lid. A rounded lid looks even better. Then make the other leg with a backwards L!
3. Draw two eyes on top of the body. Show the children how to give the frog different
expressions by giving the frog different kinds of eyes.
Happy: Make two large eyeballs and a happy smile.
Mad: Made two lines going in towards the middle as you would if you were making a letter V.
Then make a smile under each line for each eyeball and color it in black.
Scared: Make very small eyeballs and eyebrows that go up as they would if you were making
a capital A, except for the tips don’t touch each other. The smile is a up and down hot dog.
Silly: The silly frog is winking. Make one eyelid closed by putting a small curved “smiling”
line across one eyeball, and then make the other eyeball round and big. Make the smile as
you wish.
Sleepy: Make the eyelids half closed by making a small curved “smiling” line across each
one, and then making a smile or a letter U under each one for the eyeball. Color those eyeballs in black.
Hungry: Make the eyeballs way up high so it looks like they are
Hungry
popping out of the frog’s eye sockets. Put a lid on the frog’s mouth
so that it looks open. Then draw a tongue as shown. Tell the children that it is a long skinny snake or a hotdog that goes way up.
Then have them draw the fly that he is trying to catch.
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Fly
1. Make an oval for the body and two ovals for the wings. Color in only the
middle body part, but not the wings. Give the fly a couple of antennae.
2. Another way to make a fly is to make a number eight on its side and then
give it a capital V for the antennae.
Log
1. Make two circles on either side of the paper.
2. To form the top of the log, draw a horizontal line from the top of
one circle to the top of the other.
3. To form the bottom of the log, draw a horizontal line
from the bottom of one circle to the bottom of the other.
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