Tadpole to Frog

This page tells a whole story in one picture: a simple life-cycle scene showing a round tadpole with a long tail swimming, then a tadpole that has grown tiny back legs, and finally a young frog with four legs, arranged left to right underwater with a few floating bubbles. It is both fun to color and a clear way to learn how a frog grows up. Frogs really do change dramatically, hatching as tadpoles that breathe with gills and swim with a tail, then slowly growing legs, losing the tail, and becoming air-breathing frogs in a process called metamorphosis. The three stages give you several shapes to fill, and coloring them in order helps the change sink in. Use the same green family across all three so the journey feels connected, and pale blue water behind. Print on US Letter or A4 and follow the frog from start to finish.