Ribbit the Frog Amigurumi — Free Crochet Pattern

Ribbit is a frog amigurumi with a wide, slightly flattened body, two oversized eye stalks, and long back legs that fold to look like a frog mid-crouch. The front legs are short and simple, while the back legs are worked longer with a bend built into the assembly.

This is an original design written from scratch for this site and has not yet been test-stitched — the stitch counts have been checked for consistency, but treat it as a draft until it has actually been made.

This is one of very few common amigurumi animals with no safety eyes at all — the whole face is built from crocheted eye-stalk pieces, which is a nice change of technique from the usual safety-eye placement steps. The back legs' fold-and-sew assembly step is a simple way to get dynamic, bent-looking limbs without any complicated shaping in the crochet itself — all the personality comes from how you sew it, not extra rounds. A wide, flattened body shape is genuinely different from the sphere-based bodies most amigurumi animals share, which makes this a good project once you want to branch out from the standard round shape.

Work the body in a bright pink or blue for a more whimsical, non-realistic frog. Add small crocheted lily-pad shapes as a display base using green and a simple flat spiral. Embroider small dark spots across the back for a poison-dart-frog style pattern.

Amigurumi (Japanese: ami = knitted/crocheted + nuigurumi = stuffed toy) is the craft of making small crocheted characters. You start with a magic ring, work in continuous spiral rounds of single crochet, and shape the piece through increases and decreases — no seams, no joins, no turning.

The magic ring creates a closable centre with no hole. Wrap yarn around two fingers, insert the hook, yarn over and pull through. Work your first round into this ring, then pull the tail to close tight. Practise a few times — it becomes effortless quickly.

The invisible decrease — insert your hook through the front loop only of the first stitch, then the front loop only of the second stitch. Yarn over, pull through both loops, then yarn over again and pull through the remaining two. Working through front loops only makes the decrease blend into the fabric instead of leaving a bump.

Tension matters most. Amigurumi needs tight, firm tension so stuffing can't show through. If you can see white fiberfill peeking between your stitches, go down one hook size. The fabric should feel dense and firm — like a tightly woven canvas, not a loose net.