If you ask kids to draw a flower most will draw a cartoon-y flower pretty confidently. Use these directed drawing tips as well as the free video tutorial (scroll to the bottom) to take a flower drawings from simple to colorful, complex drawings that will teach your kids that every drawing is made up of simple shapes and lines.
Drawing trees for kids is easy with this step by step lesson!Draw the tree using letters “Y” & “V” as reference points with free video lesson
Follow along with this step by step video drawing lesson and printable resource as you learn to draw a nutcracker!
I’m all for free form, creative process art. In fact most of my lessons are very open ended. But I also believe it’s good for kids to learn some basic tools or skills that they can then use in their own art in their own way. This pine tree tutorial includes a few simple directed drawing steps plus the fun addition of color using the super simple (and not messy) paint with markers technique.