Frog life cycle animation

Education · Science lesson · 1:10

Frog life cycle animation

Watch the frog life cycle drawn step by step: frogspawn in the pond, a tadpole, a tadpole growing legs, a froglet and the adult frog on its lily pad. A hand-drawn whiteboard animation made from one illustration.

Length
1:10 · 2 chapters
Hand
No hand
Aspect ratio
4:3
Colour starts at
0:49
Style
Lines + colour
Formats
16:9 · 1:1 · 9:16

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Frog life cycle animation: the finished picture

The prompt behind the picture

Image prompt
Hand-drawn diagram of the frog life cycle, five stages in a circle of curved red arrows around a small pond: frogspawn in clear jelly, a tadpole, a tadpole with back legs, a froglet with a stub of tail, an adult green frog on a lily pad. Coloured pencil and watercolour marker, clean black ink outlines, warm off-white paper, no text.

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Frog life cycle, step by step

A script to read over it, timed to the drawing: the lines go down first and the colour arrives on the last beat.

  1. 0:00Line artA frog lives two lives: one in the water and one on land.
  2. 0:08It starts as frogspawn, a clump of eggs in clear jelly, floating in the pond.
  3. 0:17Each egg hatches into a tadpole that swims with its tail and breathes through gills.
  4. 0:27As it grows, back legs appear first, then the front legs.
  5. 0:37ColourThe froglet’s tail shrinks and its lungs take over, so it can climb out onto land.
  6. 0:50The adult frog goes back to the pond to lay frogspawn, and the cycle starts again.

Where this frog life cycle animation fits

Use it in a science lesson on metamorphosis and amphibians, in a pond or wildlife video, or to compare with the butterfly life cycle. The same process turns your own diagram into a clip.

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