30-Day Animal Drawing Challenge for Kids
Love animals? Draw a new one every day for a month. These 30 prompts run from easy pets to wild and sea creatures, so there’s always a new animal to try — and one last day to invent your very own.
- 1a sleepy cat curled up
- 2a dog wagging its tail
- 3a bunny with big ears
- 4an elephant with a long trunk
- 5a lion with a fuzzy mane
- 6a penguin sliding on ice
- 7a turtle with a patterned shell
- 8a giraffe reaching tall leaves
- 9a fox with a bushy tail
- 10an owl on a branch at night
- 11a frog on a lily pad
- 12a hedgehog curled into a ball
- 13a horse galloping
- 14a cow in a green field
- 15a pig in the mud
- 16a duck leading her ducklings
- 17a bear catching a fish
- 18a monkey swinging from a vine
- 19a zebra with bold stripes
- 20a kangaroo hopping
- 21a dolphin jumping out of the waves
- 22an octopus with eight wiggly arms
- 23a crab on the sand
- 24a whale spouting water
- 25a snail with a spiral shell
- 26a butterfly resting on a flower
- 27a busy bee by its hive
- 28a peacock with fanned-out feathers
- 29a chameleon changing color
- 30your own imaginary animal
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Why try a 30-day drawing challenge?
Drawing lots of different animals is a sneaky way to practice all kinds of shapes — round bodies, long necks, patterns, and fur. Every prompt is a real (or made-up) generic animal with room to add your own style, spots, and expressions. Print the month and tick off each critter as you draw it.
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