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Awesome Drawing Ideas and Activities

Posted on June 6, 2017

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My kids love to draw, and we do a lot of drawing. We started out with 20 ideas, now there are more than 40 drawing ideas on this page for you to try!

Loads of fun and easy drawing ideas and activities.

Drawing is also a great learning activity with lots of fine motor skill and development, problem solving, language development and social learning opportunities, as well as buckets of pre-reading and pre-writing skills. Drawing is a way for children to process their world, to represent and share their ideas and to explore new skills and information.

There are so many fun and interesting drawing ideas and activities to try!

Here are some of our favourite drawing ideas and activities.

secret message puzzle with markers
Make a Secret Message Puzzle
Make a face five ways, plus a free printable face template
Make a Face Drawing Prompt
three heart colouring pages and coloured markers
Hearts Design and Colour Printables

Make an easy rolled paper snail
Make a Paper Snail – free printable
My House drawing prompt - download this free printable and draw your house, with you in it!
My House Drawing (free printable)
Three quick and easy drawing activities - try one of these when you need to keep your kid busy!
3 Quick and Easy Drawing Ideas

Object tracing
Object Tracing.
See-through Drawing - an easy art activity for kids
See Through Drawing.
Free printable drawing challenge cards - play this easy and fun drawing game.
Drawing Challenge Cards

Three simple hexbug drawbots
Three Easy Hexbug Drawbots
Easy craft stick people - a simple, low-mess creative activity for all ages
Craft Stick People.
Hopes and Dreams - a free printable drawing prompt to record your hopes, dreams and wishes for the new year
Hopes and Dreams Drawing Prompt (free printable)

Just Add Drawing! - Three ideas for adding drawing to an activity to encourage interest, creativity and pre-writing skills
Add Drawing to Other Activities
Pasta Drawing Prompts - a fun drawing challenge! Download our free printable drawing prompts if you don't have any pasta on hand
Pasta Drawing Challenge (free printable)
Make an envelope city!
Make an Envelope City!

Sea drawing prompts - Free printable
Sea Drawing Prompts (free printable)
Word Drawing - an easy art and literacy activity for kids
Word Drawing
Make your own train track scenery!
Make your Train Track Scenery

Mapmaker Drawing Prompt - make your own maps with this free printable drawing prompt
Map Drawing Prompt (free printable)
Draw an expanding hug! This fun hug drawing would be great as a birthday card or for mothers day!
Draw an Expanding Hug
Monster drawing prompts - free printable
Monster Drawing Prompts (free printable)

An easy drawing activity - Simply changing the shape or size of the paper can encourage new creativity and imagination
Change the Drawing Paper
Christmas Drawing and Listening Game - with a free printable Christmas tree drawing prompt
Christmas Drawing and Listening Game (free printable)
Setting up a drawing basket for lots of drawing and pre-writing fun!
Portable Drawing Basket

Road trip drawing prompts - free printable
Road Trip Drawing Prompts (free printable)
3D Drawings - a quick and easy art activity
3D Drawing
Robot Drawing Prompts - free printable
Robot Drawing Prompts (free printable)

Try a '30 minute challenge' when you need a break!
Collaborative Doodle Drawing
Drawing with measuring tools - using a ruler, protractor, compass and curve.
Drawing with Geometry Tools
Graph paper drawing - a simple activity where art and maths combine
Graph Paper Drawing

foil drawing
Drawing on Foil
family
Frames Drawing Prompt (free printable)
Drawing Myself - an easy art activity the kids will do over and over again
Draw a Life-Sized You!

Mandala drawing
Mandala Drawing Prompts (free printable)
scanned drawing pages
Scanned Drawing Prompts
Printing with Markers and Water - an almost no mess art exploration!
Printing with Markers and Water

Draw Your Own Postcard - a frree printable postcard template
Draw your own postcard (free printable)
Playing with Maps - open-ended exploration for preschoolers from picklebums.com
Playing with Maps
Kids and Journaling - ideas for what to include, writing prompts and journaling supplies
Kids and Journaling

monster finger leg puppets
Finger Leg Puppets (free printable)
More than just paper dolls! How to make fun paper chain dolls plus 15 other ideas for simple paper cutout chains
Paper Dolls and More
what to do with a big box
Make a Town in a Big Box

We've been experimenting with laminating pastel drawings.
Laminated Pastel Drawings
melted crayon drawings
Melted Crayon Drawing.
chalk board block people
Chalk Board Blocks

easy art for kids framed portraits
Draw a Family Portrait
super easy kid-made bunting - with a free printable template
Kid-made Bunting

 

Do your kids love to draw?
What is your favourite art supply to draw with??

 

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  1. Jackie says

    I have been visiting this post every day since you published it. My daughter loves nothing more than drawing and it’s been fun to provide her with different invitations.

    I even found some chalkboard contact paper and thought I could use those on some blocks instead of paint (because we don’t have any).
    Thanks for your fab round-up.

  2. Kylie @ Octavia and Vicky says

    I love these collections of ideas all in one place. Thanks :)

  3. Nichole says

    Loving this list! I’ve been including lots of different drawing prompts the last couple of weeks at preschool which the kids are loving so this post is very timely :)

  4. Hannah says

    Wow, heaps of great ideas here. I’m sure I’ll come back when I’m stuck for ideas :)

  5. Kate Lloyd says

    What more could you want in creative ideas for drawing? Love this so much. My little girl is really getting into drawing so I can’t wait to try a few of these. Thanks Kate!

  6. kalibosilulu says

    Like this very much. My little son is really getting into drawing so I can’t wait to try a few of these ideas.
    God bless you

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  7. Hsin Chen says

    I love these ideas, thank you for sharing them. I will definitely use them with my children.

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