50 Drawing Prompts for Kids to Fight Boredom and Stay Creative (FREE Printables) | Homeschooling

These 50 drawing prompts for kids are pure and family-friendly ranging from easy to silly to creative prompts with FREE printable pages included! Fight boredom with these drawing prompts during homeschool as morning basket time, free time, art time, summer time, or even during car rides. Enjoy!

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What are drawing prompts?

Drawing prompts are described by yourartpath.com as “a helpful idea or a guideline meant to inspire creators and give them the next art project goal to tackle. Drawing inspiration, new ideas, drawing random things, prompts that challenge artists to practice and create art they might’ve not come up with on their own…”. A drawing prompt is mostly an idea that acts as a starting point to a creative drawing or project. Therefore, almost anything really can be a drawing prompt!

A drawing prompt can be as simple as “draw a cat”, as silly as “draw a cat walking on a laundry line”, or as detailed as “draw a black Siamese cat with blue eyes and a muscular build resting in a brown woven bed”. The possibilities for drawing prompts are endless! And drawing prompts for kids are just drawing prompts with topics and ideas that are directed towards children.

Why use drawing prompts for kids?

Drawing Prompts can be used for many reasons. Drawing prompts spark ideas, cultivate creativity, and promote thinking. They can help improve drawing skills, and they can help fight boredom. A drawing prompt is a great starting point that can fuel minds to think deeper and farther than they may have on their own.

In our home, we encourage thinking and creativity, and we encourage a whole list of ideas if a child thinks they are “bored”. Drawing prompts have been a favorite choice of activity for the kids! Also, kids are so creative. You may be pleasantly surprised at the ideas and drawings they come up with!

When to use drawing prompts for kids?

Drawing prompts for kids can be used at many different times:

• Fun/free time
• Homeschool morning basket time
• Waiting for a parent’s help during homeschool
• Art class
• Car rides
• Plane rides
• Waiting rooms
• visiting friends and family
• when a child is “bored”
• summertime learning/activity time

This may not be an exhaustive list of times to use drawing prompts. But, maybe we have sparked some more ideas in you!

Who can use drawing prompts?

Anyone that can use a pencil can use drawing prompts! Adults and children can all benefit from drawing prompts. We suggest it for children ages 5+. However, children ages 3 and 4 may be able to be told drawing prompts to try. A few skills that may help a child enjoy using drawing prompts more are:

• a good pencil grip
• the ability to draw basic shapes
• the ability to draw what they are thinking of
• the ability to read, or understand when read to

It is totally up to the parent to decide when they believe their child is ready to try drawing prompts. If a child is younger or less creative, they can start with super simple prompts (like draw a circle) and they can learn and grow from there.

What’s different about our drawing prompts for kids?

Our drawing prompts for kids in this blog post, and in any of our products, are different because they are pure and family-friendly. We try to honor God in all we do. So, our drawing prompts do not contain evil, magic, mythical creatures, inappropriate or disrespectful behavior, etc.

The drawing prompt set up we also use is less expensive and uses less paper by making a better use of paper. Check out our printable 200+ Drawing Prompts for Kids here, and keep reading to see how we suggest you make the same good use of paper when making your own drawing prompt pages for your children.

How to use these 50 drawing prompts for kids?

The list below of 50 Drawing Prompt for Kids to fight boredom and stay creative can be used any way you’d like. We are going to share with you how we set up drawing prompts whether written on paper or in our printables to best use paper. We take one piece of blank white paper and divide it into four sections. To do this, start with the paper horizontal and draw a line (or use a ruler) down the middle of the paper. Then, turn the paper 90 degrees so it is vertical and draw a line down the middle of the paper. Now, there are four sections.

Put the paper back horizontally and write prompts at the top of each rectangular section. Repeat these steps on the back of the blank white paper and there will be 8 sections/prompts per piece of paper and still enough room to draw! For scenes or more detailed prompts you can use half a sheet or a whole sheet of one side of the paper to ensure there is enough drawing space.

For our printable pages, they are set up for you and all you have to do is print them double-sided! You can print a page at a time, or 2 pages at a time for best use of paper, or the whole thing! It’s up to you. For a homeschool time, you may want to use a page, but for travel you may want several.

50 Drawing Prompts for Kids (and FREE Printable pages):

In these 50 free drawing prompts for kids we have included a wide range of prompts. Some are easy, some are silly, some are more detailed and creative. You can set up some white paper like we shared above and use this list for prompts. Or, you can just print out the free printable down below and your child can start drawing now!

1. A beach scene
2. A fancy cupcake
3. A plate of breakfast
4. A fruitful garden
5. An underwater scene
6. A forest scene
7. A taco food truck
8. An ice cream shop
9. A plate with a healthy meal
10. A cool t-shirt
11. A friendly dog
12. A reptile
13. A beach towel design
14. An outer space scene
15. A sunset scene
16. A vase of flowers
17. A basket of colorful chicken eggs
18. A farm animal
19. A cool car
20. A pool scene
21. A cow and its calf
22. A butterfly
23. A spider and its web
24. A cozy candle
25. A delicious donut
26. A large pizza
27. A chandelier
28. A fancy dress
29. A pair of shoes
30. A fish
31. A castle
32. A tent
33. A campfire
34. Smore’s
35. An RV
36. A lake scene
37. A canoe
38. A ship
39. An airplane
40. A fishing scene
41. A lemonade stand
42. A guitar
43. A laptop
44. A lunchbox
45. A pizza with silly toppings
46. A monkey hanging from monkey bars
47. A frog splashing in puddles
48. A dolphin surfing
49. Create your own farm (suggested as a one full page prompt)
50. Design your dream bedroom (suggested as a one full page prompt)

Conclusion

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