Frogs
Explore our frog theme for kids and enjoy our frog crafts, frog colouring pages, frog printables, frog stories, frog rhymes and frog jokes!
Frogs are amphibians, living mostly on land but needing to be near water for breeding. Most frogs have a short body, webbed fingers or toes and protruding eyes! Frogs have long, powerful legs and are excellent jumpers.
Frogs have an interesting life cycle. They lay their eggs in water - usually puddles, ponds or lakes. The eggs then develop into tadpoles, which look like little fish and have gills and tails and swim in the water while they grow. After 9 to 12 weeks, the tadpole will grow legs and start to look more like a frog, but still with a long tail (called a froglet). By about 16 weeks the froglet will have lost its tail and become an adult frog.
There are approximately 4,740 species of frogs around the entire world. Sadly, about 120 amphibian species, including frogs, toads and salamanders, have disappeared since 1980.
The highest concentration of frogs is found in warmer tropical climates, but frogs can be found on every continent in the world except Antarctica.
Frogs mainly eat insects and small animals like earthworms, minnows and spiders.
Some Interesting Facts
- Frogs drink water through their skin, not their mouths.
- A group of frogs is called an "army".
- Some frogs can jump over 20 times their own body length, similar to a human jumping 30 metres!
- In Egypt the frog is the symbol of life and fertility.
Leap Year
Frogs are a fun theme to explore during a leap year (next in 2016)! We've got some special leap year printables with a "hoppy leap year" theme:
Leap Year
Some Frog Jokes!
What animal has more lives than the cat?
A frog - he croaks every night!
What's black and white and green?
A frog sitting on a newspaper!
What do you say to a hitch-hiking frog?
Hop in!
What do frogs do with paper?
Rip-it!
What kind of shoes do frogs wear?
Open toad!
What's green green green green green...
A frog rolling down a hill!
What happened to the frog's car when it's parking ticket expired?
It got toed!
What does a frog say when it sees something great?
Toadly awesome!
What did the frog order at the fast food restaurant?
French flies and a diet croak!
Why did the frog saw meow?
He was learning a foreign language!