Here are our favorite drawing games that encourage creativity and connection with you and your kids. Try one or a few today!
Updated July 2024
Drawing games are the best. They are fun, they are creative and connecting, but they are also easy to fit in whenever and wherever.
So, whether you are waiting for food at restaurants, sitting in the doctor’s office, or on a long road trip, art games are a must have.
Here are a few of our favorite kids’ drawing games. Check them out and then save this post for the next time you need a quick and creative activity for your kids!
Drawing Games for Kids
1. Back-and-Forth Drawing Game for Kids
Take turns adding to a collaborative drawing. This is one of our favorite art games for restaurants and waiting rooms.
2. The Scribble Drawing Game
Players use a quick scribble as a drawing prompt. Does the scribble remind you of a duck, a face, a castle? This is our other favorite drawing game for restaurants and waiting rooms.
3. The Exquisite Corpse Drawing Game
People take turns drawing sections of a human body, passing the covered drawing to the next person, and adding to the next drawing. A great game for a group of family and friends that works well with mixed ages.
4. Simon Says, Draw!
A fun, interactive drawing activity for kids and families. Simon says, “draw circles,” and the artists each draw circles. Simon also says things like, “trade pastels,” “draw dots,” and “draw a face.”
We also play a version of this with autumn leaves in the fall.
5. A Quiet-Time Art Game for Children
A way to connect one-on-one with a child and also a low-key way to encourage his or her drawing.
6. The Exquisite Corpse Game – Portrait Version!
Create portraits by trading drawings and adding new features. It’s sure to bring laughs and is a great way to explore creatively together.
7. Double Doodle Art
Double doodle art is fun, relaxing, and a great way to exercise the brain as it uses both sides of the brain simultaneously.
8. Use Eye Stickers as Drawing Prompts
Create drawing prompts for kids with eye stickers! This is a fun and playful way to encourage drawing and you never know what your kids will come up with!
9. Blind Contour Drawing
Learn this fun drawing technique and see what you can do without looking at your paper at all!
10. Easy Heart Mandala Drawings
Celebrate love and friendship with these colorful Valentine’s Day (or any day!) drawings. Create heart mandalas together for easy heart drawings.
11. Fingerprint Drawing for Kids
Use a stamp pad to make fingerprints on your paper. Next, turn your fingerprints into people or animals or flowers or anything with a few strategically placed pen lines.
12. Shadow Drawing
Create beautiful shadow art for kids. Simply trace any pattern of shadow and light on paper, then, if you’d like, paint it.
How about you? Do you play art games with your kids? What are your favorites?
Does your child want to explore the world of drawing and expand their skills? Check out our three-part Drawing Skills Master Class for kids! Your child can learn to draw at home with 3 unique modules: Line & Shape, Light & Shadow, and Perspective. With at-home video lessons and easy-to-follow printable workbooks, your child will build skills and confidence as they learn to draw!
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