How To Draw A Cute Christmas Penguin - A Step by Step activity for kids!

How To Draw A Cute Christmas Penguin - Step by Step Guide

A great Christmas themed creative activity for kids!

When I was young, Christmas meant a lot of things; family, school plays and re-runs of The Vicar Of Dibley on the T.V to name a few! But one of the things I looked forward to the most, was sitting down at the family table for hours with a bucket of colouring pencils and a stack of white paper and drawing page after page of Christmas themed pictures. Penguins, reindeer, Santa, Snowmen - you name it, I drew it!

Twenty odd years later, and I'm sitting at my own table with my nephews and nieces doing the very same thing.

This November, I'll be creating four Christmas themed step-by-step guides that you can draw with the children in your family. Try igniting the imagination of children of all ages by helping them draw, and for the younger kids, scroll to the bottom of each guide to download the full picture to print out and colour in!

The first guide is our cute Christmas Penguin! Are you ready?

Step One 

Draw an egg shape with the top cut off

You can use crayons, pens, pencils or even paint!
Draw an egg that is missing the top.

Step Two 

Add a flipper

You can make the flipper point upwards or downwards - do you want him to be waving?

Step Three 

Add another flipper!

Draw another flipper on the other side.
You can make them symmetrical or have this one pointing a different way.

Step Four 

Add a line across the top of the egg

This is going to be his hat

Step Five 

Draw the bottom of the hat

This penguin is wearing a hat like Santa!

Step Six 

Draw a wavy line across the top

Don't worry if your wavy line looks a little different from mine, that's all part of being creative!

Step Seven 

Connect it with a little line

Make sure there are no gaps!

Step Eight 

Add a bobble on the end!

Draw a circle on the end of the hat for your bobble

Step Nine 

Draw a U shape in the middle

Can you guess what this will be?

Step Ten 

Draw a line across the top of your U shape

That's right, it is the penguin's beak!

Step Eleven 

Draw a line either side of the beak

Remember to connect them so there are no gaps.

Step Twelve 

Draw a foot on each side

Try making a W shape for the foot, and connect it to the penguin's body.
You can give him big feet, or little feet - it's up to you!

Step Thirteen 

Add the eyes

Draw two little dots for the penguin's eyes.

Well done! You've just drawn a cute little Christmas penguin. Isn't he great?! 

How about now you try and colour him in?

If you drew a penguin, I' love to see how you did! 

Send a photo of him to izzybean@izzybean.co.uk and I'll upload your work online!

Keep your eye out for our next Christmas Activity - coming next week!

Here is a large version of the penguin, you can download him, print him out and hand him out to kids to colour in! Just right click and 'Save Picture'

Step by Step HALLOWEEN SPECIAL BAT! With Free colouring sheet for kids!

It's that time of year. The days get shorter, the evenings get darker, and the mornings get colder. If there's anything that can cheer us up, its halloween!

Halloween is one of my favourite holidays, and it's easy to see why! Fancy dress, horror, sweets and pumpkins - you'd be crazy to miss it!

To celebrate, this week leading up to October 31st I'll be giving you some step by step tutorials on drawing some of the most popular halloween friends. All you need is a pencil and some paper, or a computer and a mouse! What are you waiting for?

And if you don't feel like drawing, I've provided some home-made colouring sheets ready to download, print and colour in yourself! Give them to your kids, it's a great halloween game! 

*Scroll down to the bottom for the colouring sheets*

DRAWING A BAT - STEP BY STEP GUIDE

To begin with, draw a nice, fat circle. Don't worry about it being perfect, the best circles are never perfectly round.

Now add another, slightly bigger and fatter circle, underneath it. Make the circles overlap slightly. 

This will be the bat's head and body!

Now we move onto the wings. Draw two curved lines, starting where the circles overlap and ending high above the circles.

Now draw two more curved lines, heading back down. Keep them going outwards as well as down!

From the bottom of your lines, draw some humps that connect to the circle which is our body. Don't think too much about this, just use an M shape over and over until you're connected. 

It's starting to look like a bat now!

Add some little hands and feet to your bat. 

The hands go at the top tip of the wings, the feet are underneath the bottom circle somewhere. 

Don't give up yet! We're just getting to the fun bit!

Next, we're working on the face! 

Add a nose - bats have little pig-like noses, so two little dots and an arch will do just fine.

Next comes the big grin! Add some fangs for that super-scary halloween effect.

At last but not least, two beady eyes!

Once you've finished the face, it really will look like a bat! 

Now you can add some of the finer details, you can add as much, or as little detail as you like. 

Be imaginative!

Ta daa! Your bat is complete! 

You can change any of the instructions above to personalise your bat if you like, give him a fatter body, or smaller wings, or bigger eyes, etc

That's the beauty of drawing - let your imagination go wild!

After you've finished, be sure to add some halloween themed colours and show your bat off!

If you drew a bat based on this guide, please do send it and I'll add it to the blog!

For all those little hands that can't quite draw yet - here is a free HALLOWEEN BAT colouring sheet. 

(To download, just right click this huge image below and 'SAVE AS' on your computer - then print it out on A4 paper and get to work!)

Share it with your friends, school or club - and feel free to share it with me too!

You can email completed bats and bat colouring sheets to; izzybeanillustrations@gmail.com

Everyone who sends a completed bat picture will get a special mention on this blog!

NEXT TIME....

Keep your eye out for the next halloween-themed drawing guide... FRANKENSTEINS MONSTER!