Art for Kids & Beginners: 17 Easy Drawing & Painting Lessons

start a night owl watercolor painting project and review the essential supplies: watercolor paper, water, a large brush, watercolor paints, oil pastels or crayons, paper towel, and a protective mat.

Practice step one by drawing an owl with oil pastels or crayons, outline the owl, branch, and moon in black, add stars and feathers, then switch to watercolor.

Wake your watercolors, then paint a night owl with greens and blues against a purple sky, add a brown branch and green leaves, and leave white eyes.

Gather essential supplies to create a shark watercolor painting, including watercolor paper, paints, clean water, a large brush, oil pastels or crayons, a paper towel, and a protective mat.

Draw a shark in an ocean scene with waves, using simple curves and oil pastels, with alternatives, add fish and clouds, and prepare for watercolor painting.

Paint the shark in watercolor, mixing gray from black with water, then color the mouth red and the ocean blue while moving the paint and staying inside the lines.

Gather the essentials to paint a rainbow fish: watercolor paper, rainbow paints (red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple), a large brush, clean water, and optional oil pastels or crayons.

Learn to draw a rainbow fish with large shapes using oil pastels or crayons, forming a big body, tail, eye, mouth, and fins, then begin a watercolor painting.

Wake up your watercolor paints and paint a rainbow fish using red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple. Keep the eye white, blend colors, and decide a bluish background.

Gather thick paper, watercolor paints, clean water, a large brush, crayons or oil pastels, a paper towel, and a protective mat for this colorful puppy project.

Draw a cartoon dog with oil pastels or crayons, starting with a black head shape, adding ears, body, four legs, tail, eyes, nose, and mouth, and optional accessories later.

Wake up your watercolors and paint a purple and blue dog, blending colors, using greens for the background to help the dog stand out, avoid overworking the same area.

Gather watercolor paper, paints, a large brush, water, crayons or oil pastels, paper towels, and a mat to create a cute frog in this beginner art lesson.

Learn to draw a large frog using oil pastels or crayons, green or other colors, with eyes on top, a triangle face, and front and hind legs with toe pads.

Wake up your watercolor paints, then paint the frog in green and yellow and add an orange background, exploring color blending and controlled dry brushing for toe details.

Gather thick watercolor paper, watercolor paints, clean water, a brush, crayons or oil pastels, a paper towel, and a workspace mat for this dragonfly painting.

Learn to draw a dragonfly with a diagonally shaped body, four long wings, and simple details using oil pastels or crayons, then explore white resist lines before watercolor painting.

Paint a dragonfly with orange and yellow body, light blue wings, and a green background, waking the paint with water and blending greens while avoiding overworking paper and seeping paint.

Gather thick watercolor paper, watercolor paints, clean water, and a large brush to paint the rooster. Prepare crayons or oil pastels, a paper towel, and a mat for the workspace.

Choose a color with oil pastels or crayons and draw a rooster with a circular body and head, beak, eye, zigzag tail, legs, a soft wing, and watercolor painting next.

Paint the rooster with warm colors—red, orange, and yellow—allowing them to mix, then color the background in green and blue and lift dark spots with a paper towel.

Gather supplies for this fox drawing: thick watercolor paper, watercolor paints, clean water, a brush, crayons or oil pastels, a paper towel, and a work mat.

Choose a color to outline your fox, draw an upside-down curved line, add eyes, nose, ears, body, legs, and a fluffy tail with a zigzag tip; watercolor painting next.

Mix browns and reds in watercolor to paint a fox, wake paints with water and blend on a palette. Build a forest background with greens and yellows.

Prepare your elephant artwork by gathering supplies, including watercolor paper, paints, brushes, crayons or oil pastels, water, a paper towel, and a mat to keep your workspace clean.

Choose an oil pastel color and draw a big elephant by shaping the face and trunk, adding ears, a soft square body, legs, and a tail before painting.

Paint a cartoon elephant with green and blue watercolor, waking the paints with water and adjusting lightness. Avoid overmixing and finish with orange toes against a purple background.