If Halloween is your type of holiday, you’re going to want to make these cool monster drawings with your kiddos. Whether your monster is friendly or scary, these free Halloween monster drawing printables make drawing a monster easy.
Perfect to use in the classroom, with groups, or at home just for fun. Save for a party, use it as an early finisher project, or make it your Halloween art lesson for the day. We love simple Halloween art projects!
HOW TO DRAW A MONSTER EASY
WHY DO ART WITH KIDS
Children are naturally curious. They observe, explore, and imitate, trying to figure out how things work and how to control themselves and their environment. This freedom of exploration helps children form connections in their brain, it helps them learn—and it’s also fun!
Art is a natural activity to support this essential interaction with the world. Kids need the freedom to explore and experiment.
Simple art projects allow children to practice a wide range of skills that are useful not only for life but also for learning. These include the aesthetic, scientific, interpersonal, and practical interactions that can be discovered through the senses, intellect, and emotions.
Specific skills art projects develop include:
- Fine motor skills. Grasping pencils, crayons, chalk, and paintbrushes.
- Cognitive development. Cause and effect, problem-solving.
- Math skills. Understanding concepts like shape, size, counting, and spatial reasoning.
- Language skills. As children share their artwork and process, they develop language skills.
Ways you can support and encourage a love of art:
Provide a diverse range of supplies. Gather a wide range of materials for your child to use like paint, colored pencils, chalk, play dough, markers, crayons, oil pastels, scissors, and stamps.
Encourage, but don’t lead. let them decide what materials they want to use and how and when to use them. Let them take the lead.
Be flexible. Instead of sitting down with a plan or expected outcome in mind, let your child explore, experiment, and use their imaginations. They might make a huge mess or change their direction several times—this is all part of the creative process.
Let it go. Let them explore. They may only want to run their hands through the shaving cream instead of painting with it.
Children learn through playing, exploring, and trial and error. If you give them the freedom to discover, they will learn to create and experiment in new and innovative ways. See our famous artist projects and process art activities!
HOW TO DRAW A MONSTER
Sometimes, all you need is a little prompt to get started with creative drawing. Below, you will get nine pages of printable monster drawing ideas to make simple monster drawings. Perfect for Halloween art for preschoolers to elementary!
Continue the monster theme with one of these cool monster projects:
Grab the FREE Monsters Drawing Pack here or click on the image below
Halloween Art Activities
Go ahead and add some of these favorite Halloween art activities to your countdown!
Printable Halloween STEM Activities Pack
150+ Pages of Halloween-Themed Materials!
This Halloween project pack is suitable for home, school, and group use for kids in grades Kindergarten through elementary but is scaleable for many ages and abilities.
What’s Included:
- 25+ Halloween theme science and STEM activities with printable sheets, instructions, and helpful information all using easy-to-source materials perfect for limited-time needs. Includes a Halloween engineering pack with fun, problem-based challenges for kids to solve!
- The skeleton activity pack includes building a skeleton challenge and a coding challenge! Try a skeleton bone bridge-building STEM challenge!
- Halloween theme brick printable activities for hands-on learning with math that is perfect for early finishers or home fun and reinforces basic math concepts.
- Bonus fun pack includes games and activities to round out your Halloween theme, such as I Spy, bingo, matching, Would You Rather cards, scavenger hunt, word search, A-Z Halloween hunt, and a coloring page.
- The Halloween STEAM Pack includes artist-inspired projects by Warhol, Lichtenstein, and more!
Free Printable Halloween Worksheet
Add this quick and free Witch’s Brew printable to your activity! Instant download here.
