Introduction

Welcome to Mizz Mac’s Art for Kids Online blog. Being a veteran art teacher with 25 and more years of art teaching and creating experience, I have accumulated many successful art projects for kids. They are all in alignment with the National Standards for Visual Arts. Some are about how to use art tools, some about the project itself being the assessment, and some are about art history/art appreciation.

Let's begin with an easy drawing lesson:

Drawing with Beginners

I like to begin my drawing classes with my drawing what the children tell me to draw as I ask questions.

The following is an example:

When we draw something, we only use five types of lines or a combination of the five lines. The lines are horizontal, vertical, diagonal, zigzag, and curvy. Connect the lines to make shapes. There are only two kinds of shapes: geometric (squares, circles, etc.) and natural (flowers, clouds, etc.).

With that in mind, let’s draw a cat.

I will ask the questions and you will answer, telling me what to draw.

1. What shape is a cat’s head? A circle. (Draw a circle.)

2. What shape is the body? An oval or a circle. (Draw the oval or circle connected to the head.)

3. What shapes are the legs? Either 4 lines or 4 rectangles. (Draw whatever is said.)

4. What shape are the paws? Circles. (Draw that.)

5. What shape are the ears? Triangles-draw 2 triangles near the top of the head.

6. Now for the face- What shapes are the eyes, nose, and cheeks? Circles. Draw those in the middle of the head.

7. Whiskers? Lines form the cheeks- Draw that.

8. The mouth? A curved line under the nose. - Draw that.

9. The tail? A curvy line or long skinny oval- Draw that attach to the body.

10. Color and add a background with a room or outside scenery.