Children love cartoons and are always fascinated by how colorful, funny and cute they look. If you are wondering how to draw cartoons for kids, this post is for you. Teaching your little one how to draw cartoons is a great way to spend some fun time with them, and it also allows their imagination to wander off the roof. The whole exercise can also serve as a great bonding session with your child. So here, we have penned down a couple of incredibly exciting cartoon drawing ideas that will help you trace out the best form of the cartoons your child loves. Read on to learn more about it. Drawing With Kids: Drawing is great for your kid, especially if he does not feel confident enough to express himself. It will enable him to put across his thoughts, feelings and ideas. Drawing can also help in developing interpersonal skills, increase his attention span and help him develop self-managing techniques. Apart from math and chemistry, kids also need to develop their visionary skills. Keep a portfolio of their work and after a few months they will see a remarkable improvement in their drawing skills. Drawing improves with time; the ability to understand the use of colors and shapes increases with practice and with age. It is very important to inculcate drawing hours with your kids in their routine.

To teach how to draw cartoons for kids, start with basic shapes.

A Rectangle A Circle A Triangle A Square An Oval Now ask them to round the corners Then add ears to these shapes Add Hair Now make them add eyes, nose and mouth to each of the above shapes Color the faces and you will be surprised with the result.

The best thing about cartoon drawing for kids is that it is simply meant to suggest things like mouth, eyes, nose and hair. It is not sketching and hence does not have to be perfect.

How To Draw A Baby Chick

Step By Step Tutorial

Learn To Draw Oswald The Moose

Once the kid learns how to draw a cartoon character, he can then learn to play around and decorate it.

Step By Step Tutorial:

Now For A Little Tougher Character, Let’s Draw Alvin From The Movie Alvin And The Chipmunks.

Step By Step Tutorial:

Lightly sketch a circle and then draw an oval at the bottom of the circle. The oval looks like a hot dog.

Now draw a curved line, going down from the center of Alvin’s face.

Darken the circle and the oval with another color.

Now draw the eyes, place the eyes just where the hot dog starts, then do the eyebrow.

Now draw a circle within the eye and a little-curved line on the right side and a curved line on the left side of the eye.

Now draw a backward number 7, starting from the brow and Alvin is ready.

Little Secrets To Good Drawing

Kids must always use a pencil.

Keep the strokes light.

Depending on the level of skill, ask them to use single and steady strokes.

How to Draw A Patrick Starfish

Step By Step Tutorial:

Start with drawing a big circle.

Draw a half triangle or cone on the circle, it should look like a huge cone on the circle.

Draw two smaller cones on each side of the bigger cone, slightly overlapping the bigger cone.

Now draw two small cones and the feet below the circle.

Draw a slight curve starting at left side and ending at right side..It should look like a smiley on the face.

That’s it for the rough sketch.

On the big cone, draw a circle, That’s the eye of the starfish. Complete it with a small circle within and color the small circle.

Our starfish is facing left, so draw another eye just close to the first. Your second eye should be coming out of the bigger cone, don’t worry, we need it that way.

Draw a slant line as eyebrow.

Now draw a smiley, the bigger cone will now look like the face of starfish.

Follow the pictures to draw the mouth or you can let the kid use his imagination.

We are now ready, your kid can now color the fish and have fun.

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