This tiny polka-dot tree frog lives in South America. In the daytime it's just a normal attractive little froggy, but can you guess what it does after dark?
Monday, 15 September 2025
Tuesday, 1 June 2021
SAYING FROG AROUND THE WORLD #7
The Brothers Grimm wrote about a frog in their 19th century version of the Frog King, Der Froschkönig. There are around 14 species of frogs and toads in Germany including the endangered Yellow-bellied toad. American giant Bullfrogs have become established there too since being introduced.
SAYING FROG AROUND THE WORLD #6
Japan has around 17 or 18 frogs and toads. Kaeru means 'return' and it is thought to bring good fortune if you release a captured frog back into the wild. I like that great idea.
SAVE THE FROGS DAY 2025
This year April 28th is the 17th annual Save The Frogs Day. Save The Frogs Day is the world’s largest day of amphibian education and conservation action. On this day we encourage the appreciation and celebration of amphibians by people from all walks of life. To celebrate this year me and Bug Belly have created and designed 2 helpful fact sheets illustrating how you can create your very own mini wildlife garden pond. With natural habitats disappearing it's important to try and help change this by creating extra mini habitats in our own back gardens.
Simply CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD the two FREE A4 pdf sheets. Have fun and hope you attract lots of wildlife including and especially those wonderful amphibians.
USEFUL LINKS AND FURTHER INFORMATION
World Wildlife Trust - tips on making ponds
Wildlife Trust - pond planting
Save the Frogs - making a backyard habitat
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Shortcuts to all my FREE froggy crafts and cool activities.
English, maths, colouring and more!
Click the thumbnails below and download directly, or scroll down this page to inspect and see further details on each activity. HAVE FUN!
SAYING FROG AROUND THE WORLD #5
France has around 17 or 18 frogs and toads. I'm sure I read somewhere that croaking frogs were in part responsible for the French revolution. Aristocratic land owners forced their workers to stay awake through the night in order to quieten the croaking frogs. That's when plans were hatched, or spawned!
SAYING FROG AROUND THE WORLD #4
Around 17 frogs and toads can be found in Greece. Some endemic to the islands, like this Cretan frog. I remember making an extra long net to catch Marsh frogs in Skiathos to photograph.
SAYING FROG AROUND THE WORLD #3
600 frog species in Ecuador including the incredible ' see-through' frog. Imagine having your organs on display!?
SAYING FROG AROUND THE WORLD #2
Brazil has more frog species than any other country. Imagine over 1000 different frogs and toads, amazing!
SAYING FROG AROUND THE WORLD #1
This Bug Belly website gets lots of views from Holland, so I thought I'd say Hoi, and make the Netherlands the very first in my brand new frog infographic - 'How to say FROG around the world'.
Watch how I drew and illustrated this cheeky Christmas frog sitting with 4 Robin friends.
BRAND NEW AMAZING FROG FACT
New video -
Fun frog facts video -
Draw like a professional illustrator by copying what you see in the bottom picture into the grid squares above. It's a great method to practice drawing. You could even GO LARGE and make a giant copy of the exact same grid, and then make a giant copy of Bug Belly and pals on the lily leaf.
•BUG BELLY ISPY
2 NEW ISPY SHEETS AVAILABLE
Why not curl up with a copy of Babysitting Trouble and now Froggy Rescue and challenge yourself to Bug Belly i-Spy!? Can you find 30 images that are scattered throughout the book. Some are easy some are really tricky. How many can you find? Four free downloads now available.
Brand new FROGSPAWN WORDPOPS. Fun and easy word puzzles. 4 pages with 3 frogspawn puzzles on each.
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Keep checking back as Bug Belly will be adding more each week.
Including How to make your own delumptious edible bug sweets!!!
To celebrate this event here are 5 fabulous Bug Belly activity pages to help you get
outdoors and investigate nature.
outdoors and investigate nature.
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Tuesday, 20 April 2021
30 April 2022
Let's make Tree Frogs
To celebrate all of these and particularly to be in time for Save the Frogs Day, (last Saturday in April). I have created and made available these gorgeous little tree frog models.
There are 4 to collect so far, with more to come.
Each frog has 2 A4 sheets, sheet 1 has the frog parts, the info tab and the colour reference image, sheet 2 has the simple instructions. Colour, cut out and make, and then learn about these tiny little gems. One of which is THE MOST TOXIC CREATURE ON THE PLANET!!!!
Also, I've made a short instruction video showing how to colour in and assemble these tree frogs. I'd love to see your tree frogs when they are made. If you send them to hot.frog@me.com I will feature them in the Bug Belly frog gallery. Have fun.
Some of the frog organisations
Current number of amphibian species: 8,450 (Mar 31, 2022)
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