12 Easy Halloween Drawing Ideas for Kids

12 Easy Halloween Drawing Ideas for Kids


Learn how to make easy Halloween drawings with a step by step tutorial and video. Lots of ideas to try out today!

Easy Halloween Things to Draw

Got a Minute?

Halloween Things short — Activity Craft Holidays, Kids, Tips Halloween, QR Code

Great! Then you have time for a quick preview of this lesson by clicking on the image on the left.

It will take you to my one minute YouTube video that was made to show how easy this drawing is to do, when you take it one step at a time.

Sometimes you just need to see how a drawing happens, to take the mystery out of the process.

Easy Halloween Things to Draw (with box template)

Boxes for Halloween things — Activity Craft Holidays, Kids, Tips Halloween, QR Code

Sometimes you just need a refresher course on how to draw some Halloween things. Like when you want to add a doodle to an envelope, or draw fun stuff on your whiteboard. Or maybe your day or maybe you have about 20 minutes for an art class, or students just completed a tough test, and would love a fun early finisher project. In any case, this simple tutorial might be just what you are looking for.

Preview of How to Draw Halloween Things

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Halloween Things for Pinterest — Activity Craft Holidays, Kids, Tips Halloween, QR Code

Sunset Drawing

An easy Halloween drawing of a sunset, made with the help of an easy step by step tutorial.

A sunset silhouette always makes for a colorful drawing, but if you add in a few Halloweenish elements, then you get a fun seasonal project as well.

One of the great thing about drawing a silhouette like this is that it’s so easy to fix little oops-es. Not happy with how your cat looks? Turn it into a bush. Thinking your tree looks too thin? Add more black to thicken it up.

Whatever students end up drawing, just make sure they know that the drama of their black shapes against the colorful sky depends on how well they fill in the black. Scribbles will only take away from the contrast, which is what makes this kind of work so fun to look at.

Use the button below to grab your own PDF Tutorial

A step by step tutorial for how to draw a Halloween Sunset, also available as a free printable.

Materials for a Halloween Sunset Drawing

Crayola Twistables Office Depot — Activity Craft Holidays, Kids, Tips Halloween, QR Code

Crayola Twistable® Crayons

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Directions for a Halloween Sunset Drawing

Time needed: 45 minutes

How to Draw a Halloween Sunset

  1. Draw a bumpy ground and a bumpy tree line.

    Sunset 1 — Activity Craft Holidays, Kids, Tips Halloween, QR Code

  2. Attach some large branches to the tree.

    Sunset 2 — Activity Craft Holidays, Kids, Tips Halloween, QR Code

  3. Draw a few smaller branches attached to the larger ones.

    Sunset 3 — Activity Craft Holidays, Kids, Tips Halloween, QR Code

  4. Draw some owls and add some random thin branch lines.

    Sunset 4 — Activity Craft Holidays, Kids, Tips Halloween, QR Code

  5. Add a simple house shape.

    Sunset 5 — Activity Craft Holidays, Kids, Tips Halloween, QR Code

  6. Draw a window with some details on the roof.

    Sunset 6 — Activity Craft Holidays, Kids, Tips Halloween, QR Code

  7. Add a cat, a pumpkin and a couple of bats.

    Sunset 7 — Activity Craft Holidays, Kids, Tips Halloween, QR Code

  8. Trace the drawing and the shapes with a black marker.

    Sunset 8 — Activity Craft Holidays, Kids, Tips Halloween, QR Code

  9. Color the sky with crayons, overlapping and changing the colors as desired.

    Sunset 9 — Activity Craft Holidays, Kids, Tips Halloween, QR Code

More Easy Halloween Drawing Projects

Spider crayon — Activity Craft Holidays, Kids, Tips Halloween, QR Code
Easy Spider
Scarecrow Face — Activity Craft Holidays, Kids, Tips Halloween, QR Code
Scarecrow Face
Easy Black Cat — Activity Craft Holidays, Kids, Tips Halloween, QR Code
Black Cat



Originally published in artprojectsforkids.org