{"id":49215,"date":"2025-02-24T08:31:10","date_gmt":"2025-02-24T08:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bakerross.co.uk\/craft-ideas\/?p=49215"},"modified":"2025-12-19T16:16:55","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T16:16:55","slug":"paper-cup-frog-life-cycle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bakerross.co.uk\/craft-ideas\/teachers\/paper-cup-frog-life-cycle\/","title":{"rendered":"Paper Cup Frog Life Cycle"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"eplus-wrapper wp-block-paragraph\">Creating a frog life cycle using <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bakerross.co.uk\/rainbow-colours-craft-paper-cups\">paper cups<\/a> is an engaging, hands-on activity that makes learning both fun and educational. This creative project allows students to visualise and understand the fascinating transformation of a frog &#8211; from egg to tadpole, then to froglet, and finally to an adult frog.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Creating a frog life cycle using paper cups is an engaging, hands-on activity that makes learning both fun and educational. This creative project allows students to visualise and understand the fascinating transformation of a frog &#8211; from egg to tadpole, then to froglet, and finally to an adult frog.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":78628,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"editor_plus_copied_stylings":"{}","footnotes":""},"categories":[49,233,268,334,3,317,759,318,286,229],"tags":[622],"class_list":["post-49215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-teachers","category-activity","category-animals","category-garden","category-kids","category-nature-subjects","category-paper-cups","category-science","category-subjects","category-themes","tag-educational"],"acf":{"age":["6-9","10+","Adult"],"skill-level":["Intermediate","Advanced"],"time-to-make":["1 hour"],"idea-type":["Craft Projects"],"free-printable":"","ID":"K1828","time":"","skill_level":"","how_to_make":"","shopping_list":"<ul>\r\n<li>Bubble wrap<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>","shopping_list_2":"","top_tip":"To enhance the project, you could also create labels describing each stage of growth. 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