Art Activity for Children: Frog Foot Prints

Learning all about frogs has been so much fun!  My kids have been totally intrigued by the frog life cycle and have spent a lot of time reading different frog facts.

Big Art for Kids Frog Feet Prints

One day while they were looking at the differences between frog feet we decided to turn it into an art project, so we made big frog foot prints!  And it has turned out to be one of our favorite big art activities for children!

How to Make Frog Foot Print Paintings

   The kids each looked at photos of frogs in our frog life cycle books and drew a set of frog feet onto Styrofoam plates.  They cut them out (I helped my 3 year old) and stapled a strip of construction paper to the top of them.

Big Art for Kids: Frog Painting

Then they slipped the frog feet onto their hands (our plates weren’t big enough to make foot size ones) and started painting!

Frog Print Big Art for Kids

All three of them had a blast printing with their frog feet!  This big art project developed their gross motor skills and forced them to work together as a team.  Plus, now we have some really cool frog themed wrapping paper!

If you liked this Frog Life Cycle Activity you would also enjoy:

Frog Life Cycle Books for Kids

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Fingerprint and Footprint Flags!

Last year we made these fun fingerprint and footprint flags for Flag Day!  The kids had a blast and they hung on our back doors through the 4th of July.

This was the one my then 5 year old made.  She only used one foot for the footprints so she wouldn’t get red paint on the white stripes.  :)

The then 3 year old obviously had to put both feet in the paint, but still managed to walk in a pretty straight line!  They also did 50 blue fingerprints to represent the stars.

I’m excited to see what this year’s flags look like!  Can’t wait to compare!