Learn how to draw a graduation cap step by step in this easy tutorial with free printable. Impress your friends with your artistic skills!

This How to Draw Graduation Cap tutorial is so fun for the kids to learn the easy step-by-step lesson on how to draw their own graduation hat.

Whether it's graduation day for high school, college, or even kindergarten, it's a great time to celebrate the graduate's special day. Have fun learning to draw this grad cap and then decorating it.

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Learning to Draw

Fun simple drawing guides like this Graduation Cap drawing are a great way to learn to draw. Learning to draw straight lines with nothing too complicated. Simple horizontal lines (side to side) and vertical lines (up and down) are a few of the foundational drawing skills.

Simple drawings with shapes and lines are not only great for fine motor skills, but learning that in drawing nothing is permanent can be so freeing. Until they start going for it, they don't realize how freeing it can be and how easy it can be to create something with your own hand.

The best part is that it then unlocks creativity and imagination on what else you can draw. Be sure to also check out some of our other easy drawings including How to Draw a Cube, How to Draw a Cone, and How to Draw a Rainbow.

Graduation Cap Drawing

Graduation is a special time for not only the graduate but the family and friends. A sense of accomplishment and the closing of a chapter in their lives.

For high school graduates, they can use their graduation cap designs to showcase what they are up to after high school.

For college seniors, their graduation cap decoration may have school colors or fun ways for their families to pick them out of the crowd at their graduation ceremony.

Learning to draw your own graduation cap can also be useful for family and friends to create their own graduation cards. Whatever the case may be, we hope you have fun with this fun graduation cap drawing tutorial.

Don't miss our Free Printable Graduation Card and Tassel and our Graduation Lei How-To.

How To Draw a Graduation Cap

Below we're sharing an easy drawing lesson for a graduation cap. Don't forget to print out the printable graduation cap drawing tutorial at the bottom and follow along.

Grab a piece of drawing paper, a drawing pencil, and a ruler (optional) if you are looking for a straight edge when drawing the top of the cap. Here are the easy steps to how to draw a cap for graduation.

Skull Cap

The first step is to draw the skull cap portion of the graduation cap. There are five lines in this step. The first line is one curved line or arch at the top. Then draw two vertical lines from each end of the curved line. These two lines should be approximately the same length.

Next, draw a small point between the two lines you just drew. Then draw a small arch from the end of the vertical lines to that middle point.

Next, we are going to draw a diamond shape for the top of the graduation cap. If it is easier for you to draw the complete diamond, go ahead and draw it, but draw lightly over the skull cap drawing from the last step. Otherwise, start with a diagonal line from each side of the skull cap shape up to approximately the same height as the top of the first arch. Then straight diagonal lines from those points to a point in the middle.

*To make this easy, try to draw each side of the diamond approximately the same length.

Next, draw two lines starting on the outside points of the top of the cap up to a point slightly inside the lines you drew in the previous step.

Graduation Tassel

The next step is to draw a small graduation tassel off the top of the hat. Start with a small curved line from the middle of the top diagonal line on the left side of the hat (when looking at the hat). Stop right before you get to the bottom left diagonal line.

Starting at the same point, draw another small curved line slightly to the right of the previous line and stop at approximately the same spot. Draw a small circle at the end of those two lines.

The last part is to draw the end of the tassel. The end of a graduation tassel is a group of loosely hanging threads, so you can draw it as we did with one stray thread, or draw the bottom as a cone shape and draw lines from the small circle to resemble the hanging threads.

The final step is to go over the drawing of a graduation cap with a darker pencil and erase all the extra drawing lines.

Grab your crayons, watercolor paint, watercolor pencils, and or markers to color in your graduation hat.

Viola, you have a sweet GRADUATION HAT DRAWING!

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How to Draw a Graduation Cap

Learn how to draw a graduation cap step by step in this easy tutorial with free printable. Impress your friends with your artistic skills!

Active Time 20 minutes

Total Time 20 minutes

Difficulty easy

Materials

Tools

Drawing Pencils

Instructions

The first step is to draw the skull cap portion of the graduation cap. There are five lines in this step. The first line is one curved line or arch at the top. Then draw two vertical lines from each end of the curved line. These two lines should be approximately the same length. Next, draw a small point between the two lines you just drew. Then draw a small arch from the end of the vertical lines to that middle point.
Next, we are going to draw a diamond shape for the top of the graduation cap. If it is easier for you to draw the complete diamond, go ahead and draw it, but draw lightly over the skull cap drawing from the last step. Otherwise, start with a diagonal line from each side of the skull cap shape up to approximately the same height as the top of the first arch. Then straight diagonal lines from those points to a point in the middle. *To make this easy, try to draw each side of the diamond approximately the same length.
Next, draw two lines starting on the outside points of the top of the cap up to a point slightly inside the lines you drew in the previous step.
The next step is to draw a small graduation tassel off the top of the hat. Start with a small curved line from the middle of the top diagonal line on the left side of the hat (when looking at the hat). Stop right before you get to the bottom left diagonal line.
Starting at the same point, draw another small curved line slightly to the right of the previous line and stop at approximately the same spot. Draw a small circle at the end of those two lines. The last part is to draw the end of the tassel. The end of a graduation tassel is a group of loosely hanging threads, so you can draw it as we did with one stray thread, or draw the bottom as a cone shape and draw lines from the small circle to resemble the hanging threads.
The final step is to go over the drawing of a graduation cap with a darker pencil and erase all the extra drawing lines.
Grab your crayons, watercolor paint, watercolor pencils, and or markers to color in your graduation hat.