Drawing for kids

Made for small hands

This canvas opens with a big 30px crayon on bright yellow paper, because young children draw with their whole arm and love bold colour. There are no menus to get lost in: pick a colour, draw, and press Undo if something goes wrong. Nothing a child draws is uploaded anywhere — it stays on your device.

Activities by age

• Ages 3–5: scribble with every colour, then name what it looks like. Draw big circles, lines and dots. Switch the paper colour and see how the crayons change.
• Ages 5–7: follow an easy tutorial like the heart, star or house. Draw your family as stick figures, then give everyone clothes.
• Ages 7–10: try the cat, butterfly and unicorn tutorials, then invent a creature by mixing two animals together.
• Any age: ask the drawing idea generator for something silly — “a dragon eating spaghetti” — and draw it together.

Tips for parents and teachers

1. Ask about it, don’t correct it“Tell me about your drawing” keeps a child drawing far longer than “that doesn’t look like a dog”.
2. Use Draw alongEvery tutorial has a Draw along button that puts the steps faintly on the canvas, so children can trace their way to a finished picture — a great confidence boost.
3. Save the good onesSave PNG keeps a copy you can print or send to grandparents.
4. Short sessionsTen minutes of happy drawing beats an hour of frustration.

Easy things for kids to draw

Start with the tutorials marked “Very easy” or “Easy” — each one shows exactly which line to draw next, in pink.

• Cat
• Dog
• Flower
• Heart
• Star
• House
• Butterfly
• Unicorn
• All tutorials →

The Draw Anything app is rated 4+ and works on iPhone, iPad and Android, with the same simple pick-a-colour-and-draw design.