How to Draw a Caterpillar
Your Kids can learn how to draw a caterpillar by following the photos in this simple tutorial.
Enjoy this simple step by step lesson for learning how to draw a caterpillar. This easy caterpillar lesson is perfect for fairly young students looking to learn how to draw.
All drawing steps are included here which make it fun and easy to follow! Plan for this drawing to take about 20 minutes, but the creative process can actually take longer if a background is included as well.
Art making is much more fun when you have a clear lesson to reference. Keep practicing!
Materials
- Pencil
- Drawing Paper
- Crayons or Colored Pencils
- Black Marker (optional)
- How to Draw a Caterpillar Printable PDF (see bottom of lesson)
In this tutorial, we are going to discover how to draw a caterpillar with your drawing materials. We will consider the different sizes and shapes within the artwork of the caterpillar. The pencil lines in each step is outlined in blue so you can easily see the current components that you will be drawing.
Time Needed: 20 minutes
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Begin With The Head
Draw a small oval on the left side of your paper.
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Add Details Of The Head
Add the eyes, the curved line in the middle and its antennae above the head.
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Draw The Body
Then, we are going to add segments of oval that overlap each other until you reach the right side of the paper. A caterpillar has many body segments!
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Add Details In The Body
After that, draw the details inside each segment. It has small circles and lines. These will be colored in later on.
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Draw The Feet And Branch
To complete your caterpillar drawing, draw each pair of small feet in each segment. Caterpillars often hang out on branches… let’s draw a branch under this caterpillar’s feet!
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Complete Your Drawing
Now, let us color our cute litter caterpillar with green, brown, black, and peach crayons.
How to Draw a Caterpillar PDF Download
Click the link below to view or download this drawing lesson. The PDF is a printable drawing lesson for How to Draw a Caterpillar. 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!
Life Cycle of Caterpillar
There are four stages to the life cycle of a caterpillar:
- The cycle of a caterpillar begins with the female butterfly depositing her eggs on the underside of a leaf.
- The eggs hatch into caterpillars (larvae) which eat the leaf the eggs were laid on.
- When the caterpillar matures, it will form a cocoon around itself. The cocoon then encloses itself into a pupa.
- After a few weeks, the butterfly comes out of the cocoon! There are many different kinds of butterflies out there! Some are big, some are small, some are colorful, some are plain! However, each butterfly goes through the life cycle just mentioned.