Its small, cone-shaped teeth hold the prey in its mouth. Fun Time Demonstrate how a frog captures its prey by making a model frog tongue for each child. Cut insects out of one-inch square paper pieces. Lay the paper insects on a table. Blow through the party favor so that it unrolls and its sticky, hooked end touches the looped surface of a paper insect.
Frogs leave the holes where they have spent the winter.
Their diet mainly consists of insects, but they will eat almost anything that moves and is small enough for them to swallow whole. A frog is only attracted to prey that moves. It would starve if placed in a container with dead insects. Frogs have tongues that are long, flexible, and sticky. A frog quickly extends its tongue out of its mouth to capture prey.