SAVE THE FROGS! Art Contest 2025
The 2025 SAVE THE FROGS! Art Contest received 2,151 entries, from 1,998 participants in 72 countries!
Thank you to all the artists, teachers and schools who took part! We look forward to seeing your entries in future contests as well.
Winners | Finalists | Artist Photos | Results | Stats
Certificates get sent to artists in late December.
And Now, The Winning Artwork!
Grand Prize Winner:
Grace Li, USA
“I am a 6th grader in Tyee Middle School. I have Studio Art class every day. This is my favorite class at school! When I was five or six, little green frogs were my favorite. I croaked and leapt like them, and soon my friends joined in. We were a happy team of froggies! Every summer at Grandma’s village, the big pond was alive. Frogs sang all day and night, especially after rain – it felt like a concert just for me. But last year, when I visited again, the pond was almost dry. No songs, no splashes, no frogs. Just silence. I miss my froggy friends. Where did they go? I wish they could come back and sing again. Maybe if we care for their homes, they will.”
“Hi Dr. Kriger,
The art contest enlightens lots of people including me to protect the little frogs and even other creatures in the world. I’m so honored to participate in this event and get the prize. I’m happy to share this event to my friends, and we’ll together protect our little friends!
Sincerely,
Grace Li”
2nd Place Winner:
Claire Chan – Singapore
3rd Place Winner:
Rolen Kate – South Korea
“When I draw, I usually follow what I’m interested in at the moment. Frogs, with their many colors and shapes, always inspire me and are fun to draw. They help me practice both color and form. I think the world would feel a little sad without these cute, colorful creatures. Lately, I’ve been focusing on combining different materials to create higher-quality artworks. In this piece, I used both watercolor and colored pencils to make the frog look more vivid and lifelike.
I started this drawing by imagining singing a song together with a frog. I pictured a frog jumping out of the music sheet to sing along. I wanted viewers to wonder whether the frog on the sheet is part of the drawing or something real. I painted the base with soft, watery watercolor tones and then added detailed textures using colored pencils. The frog becoming one with the melody on the music sheet is the key point of this piece.”
4th Place Winner:
Leanne Sng – Singapore
– Bukit Timah Primary School
– Let Color Soar Art School
“I really enjoyed creating this art because I got to use my imagination to make these frogs look like fancy gentlemen. I chose to draw them in a fun, funny way so that when people see the picture, they stop and look. If you stop and look, you start to care! I think the best part about SAVE THE FROGS! is that they use this contest to make everyone – kids and grown-ups – care about these little creatures. My artwork is my way of shouting: “Let’s save their habitats so they can keep their forest bar open!”
This artwork is completed with the use of colour pencils, markers and pastels. The different mediums allows me to show different texture in the drawing.”
5th Place Winner:
Ethelyn Zara Lim – Singapore
“Frogs are cute! This art piece is about saving the frogs. On the lower right hand corner, we can see frogs trapped between the tree branch with dirty bottles and cans while the other frogs are looking at them trying to save the trapped frogs from the branches. This tells us not to hurt the frogs as they are living creatures just like us. We should not litter too because they are good to our ecosystem and helps us control the insect population.”
Congratulations Also Goes To…
The Finalists (With Extra Honors)
Aaryan Shanmuga, Anna Tan, Arianna Di Donato, Ding Yilin, Eleanor Yu, Elli Lechner-Momma, Emma Fu, En Ping Liu, Ethelyn Zara Lim, Isidora Tatalovic, Jana Kalajić, Jeein Lee, Jingtong Zhou, Lorie Anderson, Mingyao Xu, Nadia Chevroulet, Shiwen Bao, Thu Cao, Wang Tingyu, Xinyi Luo, Xuanrui Jiang, Yiran Chen
In the gallery below, you can hover over any image to see the artist name in the bottom left (of a Chrome browser). You can click on any image to see it large, and scroll through like a slideshow.
The Finalists
Allen Gu, Anđela Krsmanović, Anna Campanella, Arissa Grace Leong, Asher Josh Lee, Charlotte Younger, Diogo Miguel Carvalho de Moraes, Emily Kim, Esmira Mammadova, Hunter Ottaviani, Jiho Lee, Jiyu Choi, Juliana Yin, Leah Feng, Leia Lay, Linh Phạm, Liu Haowen, Loefel Youchen Sim, Lucy Lin, Mr. Kantapat Phanpom, Navonil Debnath, Nayel Mirza, Noah Chen, Norah Chen, Rehna Nazeer, Sannvi Jha, Selena Yu Shan Chong, Shyla Jithoo, Stephanie Chai, Tiffany Jiaxin Zheng, Valisa Xie, Wanling Carolyne Xia, Xin Hui Heng, Xintong Dong, Yaxuan Han, Yeram Lee, Yihan Qiao, Yi Xuan Wu, Yilan Wang, Yun Wu
In the gallery below, you can hover over any image to see the artist name in the bottom left (of a Chrome browser). You can click on any image to see it large, and scroll through like a slideshow.
Names of all 240 Semi-Finalists and 734 Honorable Mentions are listed in the results section below.
“Dear SAVE THE FROGS! Team,
Thank you so much for the certificates and for organizing this wonderful contest! I have received the folder and downloaded all the certificates for my students. I will share these with each student and encourage them to post their artwork on social media. They will be thrilled to see their participation recognized. We truly appreciate the opportunity to take part in your meaningful initiative, and we look forward to participating again next year!
Best regards, Min Wang, China”
Artists from the following countries took part in the 2025 STF! Art Contest:
Afghanistan, Argentina, Armenia, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Belarus, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Croatia, Cyprus, Egypt, Finland, France, Germany, Ghana, Greece, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Iran, Italy, Japan, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Malaysia, Mexico, Moldova, Montenegro, Morocco, Nepal, New Zealand, Nigeria, North Macedonia [FYROM], Norway, Pakistan, Panama, Paraguay, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Singapore, Slovakia, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sweden, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, United Kingdom, USA, Uruguay, Uzbekistan, Venezuela, Vietnam
“I really love frogs because they are so cute and also very important to the Earth. I learned that frogs help keep the environment healthy by eating bugs and by being part of the water and forest habitats. When frogs start disappearing, it means something is wrong with nature, and that makes me really sad. I also love making art, especially drawing frogs. I like to use bright greens and blues. Sometimes I draw frogs sitting on lily pads or wearing little crowns like frog princes. When I paint frogs, I feel calm and happy, almost like I’m part of their world. I think frogs are like tiny nature superheroes!”
– Catherine Zhu, USA, 2025 SAVE THE FROGS! Art Contest Semi-Finalist
Grace Buckley, Honorable Mention, USA
Meet The Artists
Here you can get to know many of the artists who entered this year’s contest. Click the “View larger version” button at the bottom right to get a full-page view of the table, or scroll down to see more images.
“Frogs have always fascinated me because they represent such resilience in nature. Through my painting, I wanted to capture their beauty and remind people how important they are to our ecosystem. Creating this painting of a frog helps me share my love for painting with my appreciation for the environment and the goal to help protect these interesting and amazing creatures.”
– Nicole Ko, SAVE THE FROGS! Art Contest Semi-Finalist, USA
2025 Contest Statistics
- 1,998 artists participated, of which 1,789 (90%) were under 18 years old.
- 1,040 artists received honorable mention or higher
- 306 artists received semi-finalist or higher
- 67 artists received finalist or higher
- 54 artists received finalist (with extra honors) or higher
- The five winners were all Under 18, including the Grand Prize Winner.
- We don’t judge based on age, because we long ago determined that artists of all age submit great art.
- In 2025, for the first time, we instituted fully-blind judging: all filenames were anonymized prior to download so that judges knew nothing about the artist, age, gender, geography, etc.
The countries with the most participants were:
USA: 669
Singapore: 209
Mexico: 126
Turkey: 110
Australia: 100
India: 80
Vietnam: 74
China: 67
Uzbekistan: 42
Lithuania: 37
Of those countries, Singapore ranked the highest in terms of percentage of entries that received Semi-Finalist or higher, at 63% (131 of 209).
All Results – 2025 SAVE THE FROGS! Art Contest
Here you can find all of the results for 2025.
You can click the “View larger version” button at the bottom right to get a full-page view of the table. Or scroll down and to the right to see more data.
How The Art Was Created
- Of the 1,998 artists…
- 1,741 created their art by hand (87.1% of total)
- 183 used graphic design software (9.2% of total)
- 74 used AI (3.7% of total)
- Of the artists who created…
- by hand: 14.1% earned semi-finalists or higher
- with graphic design software: 23.0% earned semi-finalists or higher
- with AI: 24.3% earned semi-finalist or higher (but none finished as winners)
- Graphic design software used included: Non-AI tools: Canva, Adobe Photoshop, IbisPaint X, Adobe Illustrator, Sketchbook, Clip Studio Paint, Krita, Adobe Fresco, CorelDRAW, Picsart, Medibang, Microsoft Paint, Affinity Photo 2, Wick Editor, Inkarnate, Pixilart, Kleki, PowerPoint, PixelLab, Procreate, GoodNotes, Microsoft Designer
- AI software included: ChatGPT, Gemini, Midjourney, Bing Image Creator, Adobe Firefly, Gencraft AI, Hotpot AI, Copilot, Meta AI, Ideogram, Claude, Doubao, Artguru, Cleanup.pictures
- AI images were judged at a much higher standard than other art submissions.
