How to draw a Castle
Materials: paper, pencil, black crayon or black permanent marker, brushes, watercolor or acrylic paints
Project takes about 45-60 minutes
The purpose of this lesson is to teach kids how to make a complex drawing out of simple shapes such as rectangles, squares and circles. This lesson is great for younger kids of 4-6 years old.
- place the paper vertically (portrait orientation) and draw a horizon line close to the bottom edge of the sheet
- draw a base of the castle – a big horizontal rectangle looking as a large brick
- draw the main tower – a vertical (standing) rectangle on top of the base rectangle
- add smaller towers – smaller vertical rectangles to the left and to the right of the main tower
- draw triangle-shaped roofs
- do windows (square or circle shapes) and doors (like an arch)
- make details: flags, stairs, balconies, a road, trees, a dragon or a face of a princess in the window
- older kids can “play” with the architecture of the castle and make asymmetrical towers, cool roofs, balconies etc
- outline everything with a black crayon if you use watercolors (don’t do it if you paint with acrylic paints)
- paint the castle starting with the lightest colors (yellow, sky-blue) and the largest areas (the castle’s walls and sky) with a thick brush
- then paint the darker and/or smaller areas (roof, windows, grass) with a thin or medium-size brush
- always do the black parts the last
- paint the details with a thin brush (flags, small windows)
Here is how my 4 year olds made it:
