Life Cycle of Frog and Frog coloring page

 HAPPY LEAP DAY EVERYONE!!!

This is my free coloring pages blog. 

But I also have some worksheets from my 27 years of teaching 

Bilingual/ESL Elementary School and Junior High Science. 

The first image (in honor of Leapday) is a realistic drawing of a frog on a lilypad.  

The lilypad is floating on a pond.

The rest of today's posts are an activity on the life cycle of a frog.  

Frog on a Lilypad in a Pond

Frogs are amphibians or members of Class: Amphibia.  They go through metamorphosis.   Amphibians are remarkable creatures.  They appear to have been the first vertebrates to live both on land and water.  They have slimy skin that is actually leaky.  For this reason, they have to stay wet or near water.  Tree frogs of the rainforest get wet from the daily rains.  

On the farm where I grew up, there was a reservoir full of bullfrogs.  When they went wandering too far from the reservoir they would dry up and die.  As a child, I would find them dried up and dead 100 yards from getting back to the water of the reservoir.  

I drew this drawing today and I am posting it today because it is Leapday!  Our 365-day calendar is not quite right,  There are actually 365.25 days in a year.  The leap year day takes care of that discrepancy.  If 

 Below is an activity for kids on the life cycle of a frog... AKA how they go through metamorphosis.    We did this and another activity with our grandchildren to celebrate Leap Day 2024!

NOTE: The frog drawing is available to print.  Just click on the "Animals" button and scroll down to the bottom of the list of animal drawings.  Have fun coloring!  I will say again that the "Life Cycle of a Frog" is below. 

Life Cycle of Frog - Instructions

You cut out the items on the dotted line and glue the small pictures of the frog metamorphosis stages on the circle.  Then use a brad to hook the top page, the major sector of a circle on top of the circle.  You can then rotate the major sector of a circle and the circular wedge area will reveal each stage of metamorphosis in turn.  

Circle to Cut Out

Major Sector of a Circle

Mini Life Cycle of Frog Pictures

NOTE:  These pictures, in printable form, are found in two places. The Frog coloring page is found by clicking on the button labeled "Animals."  Then scroll to the bottom of the list of drawings.  The "Life Cycle of Frog" pages are under the "Science Readings and Worksheets and Phonics" button.  Once you hit that button you will see a list of "Paleontology and Biology Readings and Worksheets."  Scroll to the bottom of that list.  Stop before you get to the Phonics list.  Below is an example of a completed activity.

Life Cycle of Frog completed activity