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.
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
Let’s start with a circle.
Step 2
Draw a bigger circle around the first one.
Step 3
Draw six petals, and make sure there’s room between them.
Step 4
Add six more petals in the spaces between the first ones.
Step 5
Draw a tip between each petal – they’ll be 12 in total.
Step 6
Now let’s add some details!
Step 7
Add a stem under the sunflower.
Step 8
Draw a leaf or two.
Step 9
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.
Download Your How To Draw A Sunflower Tutorial PDF here:
Recommended Drawing Supplies
- For drawing the outline, a simple pencil can work great.
- A good eraser makes you a better artist!
- Colored pencils are great for coloring in the bat.
- Create a bolder, solid look using fine markers.
- Gel pens come in any color you can imagine.
- Don’t forget a pencil sharpener.
Psst…You can find LOADS of super fun coloring pages for kids & adults here. Have fun!
More flower fun from Kids Activities Blog
- Learn how to grow your very own sunflowers!
- This beautiful paper flower craft is fun to make & great for party decorations.
- Flower coloring pages that will keep you busy for hours.
- Use our printable flower template for fun crafts.
- Learn how to draw a flower!
- Try this water bottle flower painting craft.
- Here is 10 ways to make flowers with preschoolers.
- Learn how to draw a tulip.
Great books for even more flower fun
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.
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.
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.}
More Flower Crafts and Activities From Kids Activities Blog:
- How to make tissue paper flowers – see picture above
- How to make cupcake liner flowers
- How to make plastic bag flowers
- How to make egg carton flowers
- Easy flower painting for kids
- Make fingerprint art flowers
- Make a button flower craft with felt
- How to make ribbon flowers
- Or print our spring flowers coloring pages
- We have so many ways so you know how to make a tulip!
- How about making some edible flowers? Yum!
How did your sunflower turn out?
@Glenn – click on the yellow button above for the printable How to Draw a Flower easy lesson for kids. If you are looking specifically for a printable flower template, try this: https://kidsactivitiesblog.com/66414/printable-spring-flower-coloring-craft/
The sunflower template is no where to be found.
Where can I find the sunflower template to print?
Hi, Hollie! I emailed it to you. Enjoy!