More Cool Drawing Ideas for Kids
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Fun drawing from the imagination:
- Have the child trace their hand imagine it as something else
- Drawing inspired by a song, like Peter and the Wolf
- Compositions made out of traced popsicle sticks or other flat objects (they could overlap and then be colored in)
- Exquisite corpse game played with friends
- 3D letters of their name (try this one with markers)
- Two completely different objects morphed into one
- Reimagine a playing card
- Blind contour drawing
- Create and fill in their own zentangle or mandala
- A landscape that is drawn within a pair of eyeglasses
- Castle in the sky
- Self-portrait completed in the Cubist style of Picasso
- Pixelated animal portrait
- A busy underwater scene
- A friendly giant
- Themselves with a superpower
- People that are as big as buildings
- Draw random shapes on a page and create characters from them
- Living in outer space
- Bear wearing a sweater
- An interior inspired by M.C. Escher
- Place a household object on paper and create a drawing based on it
- Cut out images from magazines and make a new image from them
- Draw one or two items again and again on the same page overlapping with one another
- Use chalk pastels to create a furry monster
- Draw a grid and fill each square with a different motif
- A dream vacation
- Pick a word (any word) and draw it
- If pigs could fly…
For even more drawing ideas, pick up a copy of 642 Things to Draw!
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