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    How to Draw a Dinosaur For Kids

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    Have some dinosaur drawing fun with this How to Draw a Dinosaur For Kids Step By-Step Drawing Tutorial. We've included a free printable too!

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    This How to Draw a Dinosaur For Kids tutorial is so fun for the kids to learn the easy steps on how to make their own dinosaur drawing. It's a great way to turn a long neck dinosaur into an amazing dinosaur drawing.

    Dinosaurs are fun prehistoric animals to try and draw. This baby dinosaur drawing is more of a cartoon dinosaur. Regardless, it is a fun drawing tutorial that we are sure kids of all ages are going to love.

    A cute dinosaur to draw makes our drawing heart happy!

    If you like this Dinosaur Drawing, then don't miss our Drawing Animals Tutorial Bundle which includes 14 different printable step by step drawing guides.

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    Dinosaurs For Kids

    Dinosaurs walked the earth for more than 150 million years. Kids of all ages find these lizard-like creatures fascinating. Learning about dinosaur fossils and how they fall into three types of dinosaurs based on what they eat (herbivores - plant eaters, carnivores - meat eaters, and omnivores - eat both plants and meat)

    It's fun figuring out the most popular dinosaurs as well as your child's favorite dinosaur. Our is the Tyrannosaurus rex, otherwise known as the T. Rex with its small arms and sharp teeth.

    Regardless of the different dinosaurs you think of when you think of dinosaurs, we love all things dinosaurs and featured them in a few of our crafts and activities like Dinosaur Paper Craft, Dinosaur Bingo, Dinosaur coloring page, and Pom Pom Dinosaur Craft.

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    Dinosaur Drawing Easy

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    Learning to draw certain characters and animals is always a lot of fun for drawers of any age. We love breaking down each of the drawings into simple steps. It's an easy way for kids of any age to follow along and create their own fun dinosaur drawing.

    We've also created an easy tutorial with step-by-step instructions that are free to print at the bottom of the blog post. I also think having the printable drawing guide helps in making the easy drawings come to life.

    If you love drawing tutorials as much as we do, then you will not want to miss some of our other fun drawing lessons.

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    Before you start drawing, we also want to make sure you have the right tools. Here are the drawing paper, and drawing pencils that we like to use.

    Now how to draw a simple dinosaur!!

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    How to Draw A Dinosaur Step By Step

    Paper Position

    One of the first things is to start by placing your paper in a vertical position. This means that the long edge of your paper should be running up and down. We want your dinosaur drawing to have enough room for the body, so we are having you start with your paper in the vertical paper position.

    How to draw a Dinosaur Step 1

    For the first step draw an oval shape with a slight kidney shape for the head of the dinosaur.

    Body of Dinosaur

    Dinosaur Drawing Step 2

    Next is drawing the body of the dinosaur. Start with a basic body shape. The neck is a longer curved line on the right side and a shorter curved line on the left. The back of the dinosaur has a small decline. Then draw a curved tail.

    Dinosaur Legs

    Dinosaur Drawing easy step 3

    Now, draw another line on the inside of the left longer curved line. Then add the front leg. Continue the inside line on the belly.

    Dinosaur Drawings Step 4

    The next step is the draw the back legs. Start with the one you see on the front of the page. Then draw a similar line off of the belly with the same shape.

    Easy Dinosaur Drawing Step 5

    Starting at the base of the neck, draw the second of the front legs.

    Cute Dinosaur Drawing

    Dinosaur Scales

    Now it's time to draw the dinosaur scales. Start at the top of the head and draw small triangles down till you hit where the head and the neck meet. Then start on the back of the dinosaur and make similar triangles towards the tail. Making the triangles a little bit smaller as you go out to the end of the tail.

    Dinosaur Face

    How to Draw Dinosaurs Step 7

    Add a circle and a smaller circle inside it for the dinosaur's eye. Then add small oval shapes at the end of the nose with a small smile.

    how to draw a dinosaur easy step 8

    Now you have your own cute dinosaur. You can trace over the lines you have drawn in pencil with a pen or black marker.

    cute dinosaurs to draw

    The last step is to color in your dinosaur and make it super cute and unique! It's even fun to paint in your new drawing with tempera paints.

    We highlighted these Easy Drawings For Kids along with some other fun kid's crafts in our May Arts and Crafts along with our 101+ Easy Kids Crafts.

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    How To Draw a Dinosaur

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    Easy Dinosaur Drawings

    How To Draw a Dinosaur
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    How to Draw a Dinosaur

    Have some dinosaur drawing fun with this How to Draw a Dinosaur For Kids Step By Step Drawing Tutorial. We've included a free printable too!
    Course Coloring Pages for Kids
    Keyword dinosaur drawing, dinosaur drawing easy, easy dinosaur drawing, how to draw a dinosaur, how to draw a dinosaur easy, how to draw a dinosaur for kids, how to draw dinosaur
    Cook Time 20 minutes minutes
    Total Time 20 minutes minutes
    Author Alli Ward

    Equipment

    • Drawing Pencils

    Ingredients

    • Paper

    Instructions

    • For the first step draw an oval shape with a slight kidney shape for the head of the dinosaur.
      How to draw a Dinosaur Step 1
    • Next is drawing the body of the dinosaur. Start with a basic body shape. The neck is a long curved line on the right side and a shorter curved line on the left. The back of the dinosaur has a small decline. Then draw a curved tail.
      Dinosaur Drawing Step 2
    • Now, draw another line on the inside of the left longer curved line. Then add the front leg. Continue the inside line on the belly.
      Dinosaur Drawing easy step 3
    • The next step is the draw the back legs. Start with the one you see on the front of the page. Then draw a similar line off of the belly with the same shape.
      Dinosaur Drawings Step 4
    • Starting at the base of the neck, draw the second of the front legs.
      Easy Dinosaur Drawing Step 5
    • Now it's time to draw the dinosaur scales. Start at the top of the head and draw small triangles down till you hit where the head and the neck meet. Then start on the back of the dinosaur and make similar triangles towards the tail. Making the triangles a little bit smaller as you go out to the end of the tail.
      Cute Dinosaur Drawing
    • Add a circle and a smaller circle inside it for the dinosaur's eye. Then add to small oval shapes at the end of the nose with a small smile.
      How to Draw Dinosaurs Step 7
    • Now you have your own cute dinosaur. You can trace over the lines you have drawn in pencil with a pen or black marker.
      how to draw a dinosaur easy step 8
    • The last step is to color in your dinosaur and make it super cute and unique! It's even fun to paint in your new drawing with tempera paints.
      cute dinosaurs to draw

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