🎨 10 drawing ideas for when you're bored
Bored? Grab a pencil. Ten ideas that turn a blank page into a whole afternoon.
Invent a creature
Mix two animals: a giraffe-fish, a bunny-dragon. Give it a name and draw where it lives.
Your dream bedroom
A slide instead of stairs? A bed in a treehouse? Draw it from above like a map.
A robot that does a choreOurs
What would it do: make your bed, walk the dog? Draw its arms and buttons.
Your family as animals
Who's the bear? Who's the owl? Draw everyone and see if they guess.
A comic in four boxesOurs
A beginning, a problem, a surprise and an ending. Peabody has free comic templates.
The view from a window
Look out and draw just what's in the frame. It changes every season.
A map of a made-up island
Mountains, a volcano, a treasure X, and names for everything.
Your shoe
A real object, drawn closely, laces and all. Harder than it looks, and good practice.
A spin of the prompt spinnerOurs
Someone doing something somewhere: a wizard baking a cake in a cave.
A picture for someone
A card for a grandparent or a friend. A drawing someone keeps is the best kind.
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- The 10 easiest things to draw for kidsThe ten easiest things for kids to draw, ranked by how few shapes each needs, from a fish and a flower to a cat and a car, each with a step-by-step drawing.
- 10 drawing tips for kidsTen drawing tips for kids: start with light lines, build from shapes, look closely, use the whole page, keep a sketchbook, and treat mistakes as part of the drawing.