Learning how to draw a sunflower for kids is so easy, and so much fun too. Our easy sunflower drawing lesson is a printable drawing tutorial that you can download and print with three pages of simple steps on how to draw a sunflower step by step with a pencil. Use this easy sunflower sketch guide at home or in the classroom.

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Easy sunflower step by step tutorial!

Make a sunflower drawing Easy for Kids

This sunflower drawing tutorial is easier to follow with a visual guide, so click the yellow button to print our how to draw a simple sunflower printable tutorial before getting started:

This how to draw a sunflower lesson is simple enough for younger kids or beginners; once your kids get comfortable with drawing, they will start feeling more creative and ready to continue an artistic journey. 

How to Draw a Sunflower step by step

Let’s make our own sunflower sketch! Follow this easy sunflower step-by-step tutorial and you will be drawing your own in no time.

Step 1

Step 1 - How to Draw a Sunflower Easy Lesson - draw a circle shown in dotted lines
First draw a circle.

Let’s start with a circle.

Step 2

Step 2 - How to Draw a Sunflower Easy Lesson - add a bigger circle around the smaller circle you just drew
Add a bigger circle around the first one.


Draw a bigger circle around the first one.

Step 3

Step 3 - How to Draw a Sunflower Easy Lesson - draw 6 petals with room between them shown with dotted lines
Draw 6 petals.


Draw six petals, and make sure there’s room between them.

Step 4

Step 4 - How to Draw a Sunflower Easy Lesson - add another 6 petals between the other 6 petals for a full sunflower
Add another 6 petals in-between the spaces of the first petals.


Add six more petals in the spaces between the first ones.

Step 5

Step 5 - How to Draw a Sunflower Easy Lesson - draw a tip between each petal for a total of 12
Draw a tip between each petal. You’ll be making 12 of them.


Draw a tip between each petal – they’ll be 12 in total.

Step 6

Step 6 - How to Draw a Sunflower Easy Lesson - add sunflower details
Let’s add some details.


Now let’s add some details!

Step 7

Step 7 - How to Draw a Sunflower Easy Lesson - add a stem at the bottom of the sunflower
Add a stem, you can make the bottom round.


Add a stem under the sunflower.

Step 8

Step 8 - How to Draw a Sunflower Easy Lesson - add a leaf to your sunflower
Add a leaf and you’re done!


Draw a leaf or two.

Step 9

Step 9 - How to Draw a Sunflower Easy Lesson - get creative and make your sunflower drawing unique
You can get creative and add different details.


Great job! Add as many details, colors, and patterns as you want. Good job, your sunflower drawing is done!

I love flowers, especially happy ones like sunflowers! They are so bright and cheerful, and they remind me of beautiful spring. That’s why today we’re learning how to draw a sunflower. 

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Simple and easy sunflower drawing steps!

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Psst…You can find LOADS of super fun coloring pages for kids & adults here. Have fun!

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Great books for even more flower fun

Usborne How Do Flowers Grow lift a flap book cover art
Lift the flaps to discover how flowers grow.

1. How Do Flowers Grow?

This stylish, highly illustrated, interactive book about how flowers grow is perfect for sharing with preschoolers, and introduces science using a friendly lift-the-flap format. A great introduction to one of the fundamental themes of biology, perfect for curious young minds.

Usborne how flowers grow cover art
How Flowers Grow is perfect for elementary age children.

2. How Flowers Grow

How do flowers grow in dry deserts? How do animals help to spread seeds? Which flower smells like rotting meat? In this book you’ll find the answers and lots more about how flowers grow. How Flowers Grow is part of an exciting new series of books for children who are beginning to read on their own.

Usborne Fingerprint Activities
Make flowers and more with this ready-to-go fingerprint activity book!

3. Fingerprint Activities

A colorful book full of pictures to fingerprint and with its own inkpad of seven bright colors to paint with. Bursting with fun fingerprinting ideas, from decorating turtles’ shells and filling a vase with flowers to printing mice, a scary t-rex or a colorful caterpillar.

The colorful inkpad allows children to make fingerprint pictures quickly and easily wherever they are, with no need for brushes and paint. {Inks are non-toxic.}

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How did your sunflower turn out?



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