Frog Pattern
Make a seamless frog pattern from 10 motifs of our own: a frog sitting (side view), a frog sitting seen from the front, a leaping frog with its legs stretched, a frog on a lily pad, a frog face with big eyes, a tadpole, a lily pad with a flower, water drops, a frog swimming seen from above and reeds by the pond. Scatter them in a half-drop, brick, grid or tossed repeat, put them on checks, a diamond lattice or with small lily pads at the corners, or run them in a border strip between rows of lily pads, water drops or tadpoles. Pick a ground, a frog colour, a detail colour and a ground-pattern colour, then download a seamless SVG tile at real size, a full-size PDF with a motif key, a 300 DPI PNG or a background PNG at an exact screen size. Nothing is uploaded.
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Page 1 is the pattern at full size with a 1 in test square; page 2 is the motif key. The SVG tile is one repeat and joins edge to edge; the background PNG is drawn at the exact pixel size you pick.
Motifs and repeat
Colours
Print and screen
Runs in your browser with our own code: nothing is uploaded or saved. Every frog, tadpole, lily pad and drop is our own drawing, not a copy of a brand print or a cartoon. You may use what you make here, including commercially, with no credit needed.
How to make a frog pattern
- Choose a preset, or pick a motif set and a repeat (half-drop, brick, grid, tossed or border strip).
- For a grid, choose a ground (none, lily pads at the corners, a diamond lattice or checks) and its line width; for a border strip, choose the edges (lily pads, water drops, tadpoles or rules).
- Set the columns, rows, spacing, motif size, smallest gap, seed and (for tossed) the largest turn.
- Pick the ground, frog, detail and ground-pattern colours.
- Download the SVG tile, a background PNG, or the PDF; print at 100% and check the 1 in test square.
What you can use it for
- Nursery and playroom fabric, cushions and wallpaper mock-ups (real-size tile)
- Wrapping paper, cards and party bags
- Border strips for shelf edges, classroom boards and scrapbook pages
- Phone, desktop and slide backgrounds (PNG at exact sizes)
- Stickers, labels and stamp planning
- Pond, spring and life-cycle lesson themes in your own colours
The 14 presets
| # | Preset | Motif set | Repeat | Ground or edges | Tile |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Frogs and lily pads on cream, half-drop | All 10 motifs | Half-drop | None | 5 × 5 in |
| 2 | Frog faces with lily pads at the corners, grid | Frog face with big eyes only | Grid | Lily pads at the cell corners | 5 × 5 in |
| 3 | Swimming frogs on a diamond lattice, pond blue | Frog swimming, seen from above only | Grid | Diamond lattice | 5 × 5 in |
| 4 | Sitting frogs on checks, grid | Frog sitting, side view only | Grid | Checks | 5 × 5 in |
| 5 | Green on white, every motif, grid | All 10 motifs | Grid | None | 5 × 5 in |
| 6 | Leaping frogs and tadpoles, brick | Leaps and tadpoles | Brick | None | 5 × 5 in |
| 7 | Pastel pond: every motif, tossed | All 10 motifs | Tossed | None | 5 × 5 in |
| 8 | Lily pads, water drops and reeds, half-drop | Pond | Half-drop | None | 5 × 5 in |
| 9 | Bright frogs on navy, grid | Frogs | Grid | None | 5 × 5 in |
| 10 | Border strip: sitting frogs between rows of lily pads | Frog sitting, side view only | Border strip | Row of lily pads edges | 6 × 1.7 in |
| 11 | Border strip: frog faces between rows of water drops | Frog face with big eyes only | Border strip | Row of water drops edges | 6 × 1.7 in |
| 12 | Border strip: leaping frogs between rows of tadpoles | Leaping frog, legs stretched only | Border strip | Row of tadpoles edges | 6 × 1.7 in |
| 13 | Tiny tadpoles and drops, ditsy print | Tadpoles and drops | Tossed | None | 3.6 × 3.6 in |
| 14 | Fabric scale: 20 cm repeat, diamond lattice | Frogs | Grid | Diamond lattice | 20 × 20 cm |
Each preset only fills in the fields; change any setting afterwards.
The 10 frog motifs
| Motif | Shapes | Symmetry (tested on every point) |
|---|---|---|
| Frog sitting, side view | 7 main + 5 detail shapes | one-sided |
| Frog sitting, seen from the front | 16 main + 5 detail shapes | mirrored left to right |
| Leaping frog, legs stretched | 9 main + 3 detail shapes | one-sided |
| Frog on a lily pad | 8 main + 3 detail shapes | mirrored left to right |
| Frog face with big eyes | 3 main + 8 detail shapes | mirrored left to right |
| Tadpole | 2 main + 1 detail shapes | one-sided |
| Lily pad with a flower | 2 main + 3 detail shapes | mirrored left to right |
| Water drops, one big and two small | 3 main + 3 detail shapes | one-sided |
| Frog swimming, seen from above | 10 main + 3 detail shapes | mirrored left to right |
| Reeds by the pond | 5 main + 3 detail shapes | one-sided |
All motifs are our own drawings. Page 2 of the PDF draws each motif used, large, in the pattern colours.
The mixed motif sets
| Set | Motifs |
|---|---|
| All 10 motifs | frog sitting, side view, frog sitting, seen from the front, leaping frog, legs stretched, frog on a lily pad, frog face with big eyes, tadpole, lily pad with a flower, water drops, one big and two small, frog swimming, seen from above, reeds by the pond |
| Frogs | frog sitting, side view, frog sitting, seen from the front, leaping frog, legs stretched, frog swimming, seen from above |
| Pond | frog on a lily pad, lily pad with a flower, water drops, one big and two small, reeds by the pond |
| Leaps and tadpoles | leaping frog, legs stretched, tadpole |
| Faces and lily pads | frog face with big eyes, lily pad with a flower |
| Tadpoles and drops | tadpole, water drops, one big and two small |
Grounds and border edges
| Ground or edge | What is drawn | Used with |
|---|---|---|
| Lily pads at the cell corners | Lily pads at the cell corners | Grid repeat |
| Diamond lattice | diagonal lines, a dot at every corner | Grid repeat |
| Checks | every second cell filled | Grid repeat |
| Row of lily pads | Along the top and bottom of the strip | Border strip |
| Row of water drops | Along the top and bottom of the strip | Border strip |
| Row of tadpoles | Along the top and bottom of the strip | Border strip |
| Rules and dots | Along the top and bottom of the strip | Border strip |
Background sizes (first preset)
| Background | Pixels | Repeats across × down |
|---|---|---|
| Phone | 1170 × 2532 px | 2.44 × 5.28 |
| Phone | 1080 × 1920 px | 2.25 × 4 |
| Desktop | 1920 × 1080 px | 4 × 2.25 |
| Large screen | 2560 × 1440 px | 5.33 × 3 |
| Square post | 1080 × 1080 px | 2.25 × 2.25 |
Which tool to use
| You want | Use |
|---|---|
| Frogs, tadpoles and lily pads as a seamless repeat or border strip | Frog Pattern (this page) |
| Dinosaurs, eggs and ferns as a repeat | Dinosaur Pattern |
| A shape of your own as a repeat | SVG Pattern Generator |
| A frog cut as a stencil | Stencil Maker |
| Plain dots in a grid | Polka Dot Pattern Generator |
To repeat a shape of your own, try the SVG Pattern Generator; to cut a shape as a stencil, the Stencil Maker; for plain dots, the Polka Dot Pattern Generator.
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Frequently asked questions
Which frog motifs are there?
10: a frog sitting (side view), a frog sitting seen from the front, a leaping frog with its legs stretched, a frog on a lily pad, a frog face with big eyes, a tadpole, a lily pad with a flower, water drops (one big, two small), a frog swimming seen from above and reeds by the pond. Each can be used on its own, or in the mixed sets.
Are these a real kind of frog?
No. They are simple, generic frogs drawn from circles, ellipses and strokes, not any named species and not a cartoon character. Pick any colours you like: green, brown, or bright colours on navy.
Can I make a frog border?
Yes. Choose Border strip as the repeat: one row of frogs runs between two edge bands of lily pads, water drops, tadpoles or plain rules, and the strip repeats left to right with no seam.
What is the difference between half-drop, brick, grid, tossed and border?
In a grid, the motifs sit in straight rows and columns. In a half-drop, every second column is moved down exactly half a cell; in a brick repeat, every second row is moved across exactly half a cell. Tossed is a half-drop where each motif is also turned by a seeded angle up to the largest turn you set. Border makes one row of motifs between two edge bands, as a strip for hems, ribbons and page edges. A half-drop or tossed repeat needs an even number of columns and a brick repeat an even number of rows; the maker says so if they do not.
Can the motifs overlap?
No. Each motif sits in the middle of its own square cell, and the maker refuses a size that would come closer than the smallest gap you set to the edge of its cell (or to the ground); it tells you the spacing needed. Our tests check every point of every motif against its cell and the ground.
Will the pattern repeat without a seam?
Yes. A motif or edge shape that runs over an edge of the repeat carries on from the opposite edge, so copies placed edge to edge join with no seam. Our tests check this two ways for every preset: each shape cut by an edge has its exact partner one repeat over in the same tile, and sampled colours match one repeat over.
Is the tile the exact size I set?
Yes. The SVG tile is written in inches or centimetres (the first preset is 5 in square: 4 cells of 1.25 in), and the PDF prints the pattern at full size with a 1 in test square.
Is it free?
Yes. There is no sign-up, no watermark and no limit.
Is anything uploaded?
No. Everything is drawn by JavaScript in your browser and nothing is sent anywhere.