Easy How to Draw a House Tutorial and House Coloring Page

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Learn how to draw a house with an easy step by step tutorial. It has some charming details that are easy to draw.

House Drawing

One of the first things that kids learn how to draw is a house, and those first ones are really about just putting shapes together to make something new. That's a time of experimenting and trying to remember all the things they know they sometimes see in houses. Windows, doors and chimneys and more, but usually in a one-dimensional way.

When students have conquered all those details, and want to try to make their house look more 3D, then this tutorial might be fun for them. The side angles back a bit to give the house some form, and the roof has added dormer windows that are not hard to draw if you have an example to follow.

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How to Draw a House

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House Coloring Page

Materials for a House Drawing

  • Pencil. The Ticonderoga brand are the most reliable, make nice dark lines when you need them, and are the easiest to erase. Buying the pre-sharpened ones will save busy teachers a lot of time.
  • Eraser. Large ones you can hold in your hand do a much better job than just the pencil tip erasers, especially when erasing leftover pencil lines after tracing.
  • Black Sharpie Marker. These fine point permanent marker pens make nice black outlines, have a good tip for coloring, and never bleed when they get wet. Use them with good ventilation and add extra paper underneath to protect your tables.
  • Prang Crayons. These are a bit softer than other crayons so they sometimes look like oil pastels. They also have a some nice brown shades that Crayola does not have unless you buy their larger boxes.
  • Crayola Crayons. The reliable brand that always works well. The 24 pack has some of my favorite golden orange and yellow colors that seem a bit richer and warmer than the ones Prang has.

Directions to Draw a House Step by Step

Time needed:55 minutes.

How to Draw a House

  1. Draw a rectangle.

  2. Add a slanted roof and side of the house.

  3. Draw the dormers and roof line details.

  4. Add an edge to the roof line.

  5. Erase lines and draw windows and chimney.

  6. Draw a center door and two windows.

  7. Add scallop texture lines to the roof.

  8. Finish with the bushes and a sidewalk.

  9. Trace with a marker and color.

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