Kawaii frog on a lily pad holding a leaf umbrella in rain with cattails and pond ripples

Smiling Frog Under a Leaf Umbrella

A cheerful frog sits on a striped lily pad, holding a big leaf umbrella while rain falls among cattails and ripples.

🎨 How to color it

Color the frog spring green, the leaf umbrella fresh lime, the cattails warm brown, and the lily pad alternating mint and olive wedges. Use chunky crayons or markers for the frog’s round belly and big leaf, then add the raindrops with quick blue dabs. For a playful twist, make each lily pad wedge a different green so the frog’s pond game looks extra silly.

The story behind this coloring page

Pip’s Drip-Hop Dare — Every day, Pip tapped puddles with his toes: plink, plunk, plop. Read the full story →

Every day, Pip tapped puddles with his toes: plink, plunk, plop. He wanted the cattails to clap, so he invented Drip-Hop, a game where he could hop only when a raindrop bonked his leaf umbrella.

But one day the rain got sneaky. Drips fell left, right, behind him—never on top. Because of that, Pip had to sit still on his lily pad, grinning while his knees wiggled. Because of THAT, the pond bugs gathered to tease him. “Hop already!” buzzed a gnat.

At last—PLOP!—one fat drop hit the leaf, and Pip sprang in a perfect splashy circle. The cattails rustled like applause, and if you peek at his toes, you might hear: plink, plunk, plop.