Drawing Ideas for Kids

If you can write your name, you can create cool drawings.  The drawing ideas on this page are failure-free and student tested.  Most of the drawing ideas can be done in less than two minutes, some of the drawings can be created in less than a minute. Students love these drawing ideas because it gets them started.  They are easy drawings, but they unlike the potential of the child.  Drawing is not about physical skill, after all, drawing a cartoon is no different than writing your name.  It is a bunch of circles, dots, squiggles and lines.  It is just seeing how those lines come together that is what helps kids to learn to draw and create.  These drawing lessons are meant to be doodled on paper.  You don't have to follow the tutorial exactly, that's why I took out the words.  Just watch and get a sense of how it works and then create.  When you find a drawing that you really like, spend more time adding details to that drawing.  Ha...

There is nothing like being able to draw quickly to help build confidence in young artists.  This drawing idea is created in less than two minutes and it only involves drawing about 20 lines and squiggles.  It is super easy and by changing the size of the eyes or hair it can quickly turn into an original character that is a student's own creative inspiration. This is a good introduction to drawing cartoon faces.  Have fun with this drawing idea.

Here is a link to some classroom test drawing ideas.  These are a great list of drawing prompts.  Once students get started, their art takes off.  These drawing ideas help students to get started!  Their imaginations will take care of the rest!  I just added to the list!  Check out the new drawing ideas!

I have been sharing some of these drawing ideas with my students, and it is amazing to watch what they do with them.  The drawing ideas on this blog will help kids generate their own drawing ideas.  Today, I wanted to share a simple trick that helps kids get creative with their drawings. The idea is to exaggerate when you are drawing.  Try it.  Take one drawing of yours and just change one part of it by exaggerating.  Keep doing it.  It works amazingly well.  In this video, I give a really simple example.  You can see how the drawing idea adds life to the drawing.  I hope you find that it helps you to draw some cool pictures.

If you can write your name, you can draw an amazing landscape picture in less than one minute.  In this step-by-step drawing tutorial, you'll learn an insanely easy way to draw amazing landscapes.  This is a great art project idea for kids of all ages. Learn how to draw amazing background pictures in minutes.  This is a great drawing idea for kids because it leads to other great drawing ideas.  Kids will dream up all kinds of great ideas to put on top of the landscape drawing.

Here is a great drawing idea for kids.  It is super quick.  It only takes 30 seconds to learn, but it can be used all the time to create cool characters.  Try using it draw a character who just got shocked! drawing ideas for kids

Here are some classroom tested drawing ideas that kids love!  They get weirder as the list gets longer.    1.  Draw a jelly doughnut fighting an onion bagel on top of a building.  The building should have three windows and a sign on it. 2. Draw a creature in a jar.  Draw the jar on a table.  Draw something strange eating dinner at the table.  The something strange should have a bib.  Draw a mashed potato volcano on the table. 3.  Draw a giant hand.  The hand should be picking up a car.  In the car draw a bunch of cows screaming or mooing.  You decide.  Add three other animals to the picture. 4.  Draw a giraffe taking a bubble bath.  Draw the bath tub in the middle of the ocean.  Draw sharks surrounding the bath tub.  Draw three other things swimming in the water. 5.  Draw a bicycle sneezing. 6.  Design a cereal box for  Sludgiee-Os. Include a drawing of the cereal, a...