Learning how to draw a flower is easier than you might think! This simple flower drawing tutorial is perfect for kids, beginners, classrooms, and anyone who wants to learn to draw. Start with a few easy shapes and follow the steps to create a beautiful flower in just a few minutes.
The best part? Once you’ve mastered the basic flower, you can easily turn it into a daisy, sunflower, layered bloom, or even a bouquet using the same simple drawing.
Difficulty: Easy
Time: 15–20 minutes
Best For: Kids, beginners, classrooms, homeschool, and art centers
What You’ll Need
You only need a few basic supplies to get started.
- Pencil
- Eraser
- Paper
- Colored pencils, crayons, or markers
Printable Flower Drawing Guide
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Download the free printable guide and follow each step from beginning to end. It’s perfect for classrooms, homeschool, art centers, rainy days, or quiet time.
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How to Draw a Flower Step by Step
This flower starts with two simple oval shapes. Draw lightly with your pencil so you can erase the guide lines later.
- Draw a large light oval for the outside shape of the flower.
- Draw a smaller oval inside it, slightly off center.
- Draw the first petal.
- Add another petal beside it.
- Keep adding petals around the flower center.
- Continue until the first row of petals is complete.
- Fill in any gaps with a few more petals.
- Finish the flower shape by adding the last petals.
- Refine the petals and smooth any uneven edges.
- Draw two curved lines to make the stem.
- Extend the stem to the length you want.
- Finish the stem.
- Add a leaf shape coming off one side of the stem.
- Draw a line down the middle of the leaf to make the center vein.
- Add a few small veins inside the leaf.
- Begin adding short lines around the flower center.
- Continue adding the short center lines.
- Keep working your way around the center.
- Add a few more detail lines.
- Continue until the center is nearly finished.
- Fill in any remaining spaces.
- Finish the center details.
- Erase any guide lines that are still showing.
- Color your flower with crayons, colored pencils, or markers.
Congratulations! You’ve drawn a flower!
Make More Flowers with the Same Simple Shape
One of the best things about learning to draw is discovering how one simple flower can become lots of different flowers. By changing the petals, center, or leaves, you can create completely new blooms.
Turn It Into a Daisy
A daisy uses the exact same basic flower shape with only a few changes.
- Make the flower center round instead of oval.
- Draw longer, thinner petals.
- Keep the petals close together.
- Add one or two simple leaves.
- Color the center yellow and leave the petals white.
Turn It Into a Sunflower
A sunflower starts exactly the same way.
- Make the flower center much larger.
- Color the center dark brown.
- Draw wide yellow petals around it.
- Add a second layer of petals behind the first.
- Draw a thicker stem with large leaves.
Want even more practice? Learn How to Draw a Sunflower
Draw a Fuller Flower
For a fuller flower, simply add another row of petals behind the first.
Try:
- larger outer petals
- smaller inside petals
- different colors
- wavy petal edges
Changing only one thing completely changes the look.
Draw a Bouquet
Once you know how to draw one flower, try drawing three together.
Mix a:
- daisy
- sunflower
- layered flower
Add leaves, stems, and finish with a ribbon.
Bouquets make wonderful drawings for:
- Mother’s Day
- birthdays
- thank you cards
- spring art
- homemade gifts
Add a Background to Your Flower Drawing
Your flower doesn’t have to stay by itself!
Try adding:
- a butterfly
- a bee
- fluffy clouds
- sunshine
- grass
- more flowers
- a rainbow
- a flower pot
- a garden
Small details make your drawing feel finished.
How to Color Your Flower
Now it’s time to make your flower unique.
Try:
- white petals with a yellow center for a daisy
- bright yellow petals for a sunflower
- pink or purple petals for spring flowers
- rainbow petals for a fun fantasy flower
Colored pencils create soft shading while markers make bright, bold flowers. Add a slightly darker shade near the center of each petal to give your flower more depth.
You can also leave your flower uncolored and use it as your own coloring page.
Looking for more flowers to color?
Drawing Tips for Kids
Drawing gets easier every time you practice. A few simple tips can make a big difference.
- Start with light pencil lines.
- Don’t worry about making every petal match.
- Look at real flowers for inspiration.
- Try drawing the same flower more than once.
- Color after you’re finished drawing.
- Most importantly, have fun!
Remember—every artist starts with simple shapes.
Flower Drawing FAQ
A simple flower with rounded petals is one of the easiest flowers for beginners. Once you learn the basic shape, it’s easy to turn it into daisies, sunflowers, bouquets, and many other flowers.
Yes! This tutorial was designed especially for kids, beginner artists, classrooms, and homeschool activities.
Try turning your flower into:
a daisy
a sunflower
a bouquet
a greeting card
a garden
a spring scene
Colored pencils, crayons, markers, and watercolor paints all work beautifully.
Add another layer of petals, vary the petal sizes slightly, use light shading near the center, and look at real flowers for inspiration.
More Easy Drawing Tutorials
Ready for another drawing? These easy step by step tutorials are perfect for kids and beginners.
Flower Drawing Practice
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Every drawing helps build confidence. Keep practicing, keep creating, and most of all, have fun. Before long, you’ll be filling pages with flowers, animals, and all kinds of cute drawings..
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Thanks for the feedback, Camilla! I recently updated this tutorial so the later steps now show several different flower variations, including a daisy, sunflower, layered flower, and bouquet. I hope you’ll give the new version a try!
Your pictures are so cool, amazing and cute
Beautiful – I love drawing and this made it really fun! Thank you
My daughter loved this tutorial! So fun!
This is really cool! Can’t wait to try! 🙂
This tutorial was so easy! It really helped me.
Hello Camilla, from step 15 over you are adding all the center details of the flowers.
I think this flower is very weird because from number 15 and over it does the egsact same flowerand it wasted my time and a lot of over peoples time