Birthday Cake Drawing (easy)
Young artists will love learning how to easily draw a birthday cake!
Follow along with these simple 6 drawing steps. You will learn the basics for drawing a birthday cake.
This lesson only takes about 20 minutes and includes a pdf you can easily print or download. The pdf guide even contains a “coloring book” page with just the line art. This accompanies well with crayons, colored pencils, or markers. It is wonderful for very young children in the need of extra guidance and simply looking to color in a birthday cake.
Art making is much more fun when you have a clear lesson to follow. Let’s get drawing!
Materials
- Pencil
- Drawing Paper
- Crayons or Colored Pencils
- Black Marker (optional)
- Birthday Cake Drawing (easy) Printable PDF (see bottom of lesson)
In today’s lesson, we will discover how to create an easy birthday cake drawing on paper. The shape and proportion of each of the drawn parts will be pointed out in each step of the tutorial. Observe that the blue outlines have been drawn to show the current parts being drawn in each in each of the steps.
Time Needed: 20 minutes
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Draw The Icing
Start by forming the icing of the birthday cake by drawing an oval with a wavy line.
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Form The Body Of The Cake
Next, add a cylindrical outline below the icing to outline the main shape of the cake. Draw two wavy horizontal lines to add layers to the cake. Then, create a thin oval cake plate underneath the cake.
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Add Strawberry Toppings
Form the triangular-shape of the strawberry toppings on top of the icing. Draw small dots to add some texture to the strawberry toppings.
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Attach The Birthday Cake Topper
Now, draw the rectangular outline of the cake topper. Then, write the words “HAPPY BIRTHDAY.”
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Form The Candles
Add four thin, upright candles on top of the icing. Form the texture of the birthday candles by drawing evenly spaced diagonal lines. Next, outline the pointed shape of the flame above each candle. Don’t forget to erase unnecessary overlapping lines.
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Complete The Easy Birthday Cake Drawing
Time to add some fun colors to our easy birthday cake drawing! First, color the strawberry toppings with a red crayon. Next, fill in the candles with an orange crayon, and the flames with a yellow crayon. Now, use a pink crayon to fill in the icing, and shades of brown to color the rest of the cake. Then, use a yellow crayon to color the birthday cake topper and the cake plate.
Birthday Cake Drawing (easy) PDF Download
Click the link below to view or download this drawing lesson. The PDF is a printable drawing lesson for Birthday Cake Drawing (easy). The last page of the downloadable PDF includes a coloring book page with just the outlines and an extension exercise for prompting kids to get creative!