For Kids 8 Years Old And Older

These art lessons are for older kids. Even though these are our most challenging lessons, they're still super fun. I promise your kids will be surprised by what they can draw.

How To Draw A Hammerhead Shark

How to draw a hammerhead shark, it’s SHARK WEEK! OH BOY, we’re excited! This week we’re going to be sticking to a theme, anything and everything that has to do with the ocean. And we’re kicking off this week with a super cool hammerhead. Art Supplies marker paper Lesson Length under 10 minutes

How To Draw A Chinese Dragon

How to draw a Chinese dragon! First off, happy Monday and Monday is the day we show your art. We were completely shocked by how many submissions we received from all of you. You are all amazing artists. Thank you for sending in your art! Our new episode for today ended up being our longest […]

How To Draw An Octopus

How to draw an octopus! It’s a wiggly octopus, this guy is a lot like our how to draw a squid. They’re so much fun to draw because you can draw their legs any direction you want. It kind of turns into a big design when you’re done. We love featuring all of our art […]

How To Draw A Wolf

How to draw a wolf! If you’ve been checking our site this week and have been wondering where all the new posts are…don’t worry we have a massive update coming this weekend. Also, drum roll please, we have a fun announcement to make on Monday. Stay tuned! In the meantime, today’s Friday so be sure […]

How To Draw A Koi Fish

How to draw a koi fish! We haven’t colored our koi fish yet, but we’re planning to soon. If you’ve colored yours be sure to email us a photo at myart@artforkidshub.com Also if you’d like to learn more about these cool fish, check out the wikipedia article. Watch How To Draw A Koi Fish

How To Draw The Liberty Bell

How to draw The Liberty Bell, it’s almost July 4th! We’re from the U.S. and we know that many of our art friends are from all over the world, but since July 4th is almost here, we thought it would be fun to learn how to draw this. If you don’t know what The Liberty […]

How To Draw A Soccer Player

How to draw a soccer player! Here in the states, we call it soccer, but we do know the real name is football. Have you guys been watching the World Cup? If you’re not into soccer that much, what is your favorite sport? When you watch the video below, we skip over drawing a soccer […]

How To Draw A Soccer Ball

How to draw a soccer ball seems easy until you actually try to draw the pattern. That’s where it can get tricky! In today’s video, we show you the easiest way to draw a soccer ball. Oh and just curious what team are you cheering for? Watch How To Draw A Soccer Ball Most of […]

How To Draw A Rhinoceros

How to draw a Rhinoceros! It’s crazy how much Rhinos look like prehistoric animals. These things look like real live dinosaurs to me. We hope you have fun drawing this tough guy with us! Send us photos of your art to myart@artforkidshub.com Watch How To Draw A Rhinoceros

How To Paint A Koala Bear (watercolor pencils)

Hey art friends, you’ve made it to the second part of this art project! If you haven’t already drawn your koala bear, be sure to watch How To Draw A Koala Bear first. Materials Used Watercolor pencils Mixed media paper Paintbrushes Water Paper towel Watch How To Paint A Koala Bear With Watercolor Pencils https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkSkcdYrg5I

How To Draw Calla Lilies

Happy Memorial Day art friends! Today is the day set aside to honor those men and woman who have lost their lives in the service of our country. We, as a family, also have a tradition to visit our grandparent’s graves and leave them flowers. Because of that we thought it would be fun to […]

How To Draw A Fox

What does a fox say? (Too soon?) I don’t know what they say, but we know how to draw a fox. Watch How To Draw A Fox

How To Draw A Squid

I know I’ve said this before on other lessons, but this is another one of my favorites. When your kids are learning how to draw a squid challenge them to try and fill the page. Also remind them that they can draw the tentacles or arms any way they want. Watch How To Draw A […]

How To Draw A Crab

How to draw a crab was fun, but they sure are weird animals! The have really cool exoskeletons and super big pinchers. I’ve always thought of them as looking very similar to spiders. Chuckers asked me if they were related, so I had to do some searching. The only thing I could find in relation, […]

How To Draw A Shark

Look out it’s how to draw a shark! This guy is mean and fierce, even if he’s a little cartoonish. I have a quick question: Do your kids prefer drawing cartoonish, realistic, both, or doesn’t matter? Watch How To Draw A Shark

How To Draw A Dolphin

Dolphins are amazing animals, I’ve always liked them since I was a little kid. They seem so smart, and they always look like they’re smiling. Follow along with us and learn how to draw a dolphin! Art Supplies marker paper Lesson Length under 10 minutes

How To Draw A Skull

Halloween is coming, teach your kids how to draw a skull! We couldn’t wait to pull out our masks, in fact we had to run to Target and buy a few more. What are your kids going to dress up as for Halloween? We almost convinced Hads that she should be a gorilla princess, she […]

How To Draw A Robot

We’ve got to do more how to draw a robot posts! Chuckers loved it, and robots can be drawn so many different ways. This particular robot is a great way to focus on drawing squares and rectangles. If your child is younger, spend a little extra time explaining the difference between a square and rectangle. […]

How To Draw A Frog (More Realistic)

Our first how to draw a frog post was very cartoony, so we thought we’d do another, but more realistic. And if your kids just love frogs be sure to check out our easy pop-up frog! Watch How To Draw A Frog

How To Draw Superman

We recently received a request from one of our awesome drawing friends on how to draw Superman! We love getting requests, and if you have sent one to us and we haven’t done it yet, don’t worry! We have a list and we’re working through them as fast as we can. If you sent us a […]

Teaching Kids How To Draw From Life: How To Draw A Tree

This post is the first of a new series of drawing activities for (slightly older) kids. Don’t worry, we’ll still do the simple How To Draw projects. My little Chuckers (7 years old) has expressed an interest in drawing things more realistically. He’s also getting to that stage where he has just enough focus and […]

How To Shade A Cone

Here’s another shading post, How To Shade A Cone. Learning how to shade and draw simple objects is a great place to start teaching kids. As they get older they’ll learn how to combine shapes to make more complicated objects. For example, they could use this cone and a sphere to draw a very realistic […]

How To Shade A Cube

Shading a cube is really easy, especially compared to shading other objects. This how to shade a cube video shows you how simple it really is. Also, check out how to draw a 3D box in case your kids want more box fun. Materials Paper Charcoal or pencil Kneaded erasure I realized that we didn’t use […]