Easy Step-by-Step Art Lesson for Kids

Here you’ll find an easy step-by-step tutorial for how to draw a Rainbow Tutorial Video and a Rainbow Coloring Page. It’s fun to add lots of pretty flowers and butterflies.

Drawing of a Rainbow

Tips for drawing a Rainbow

Rather than draw the entire shape, this tutorial will show students how to draw a Rainbow that is slightly off to one side of the page. The closer view means those bands can be just a bit wider, which is always helps when drawing them. Plus, the slightly off-center composition creates a little more interesting look than if everything was just centered on the page.

Rainbows actually contain upwards of 1 million colors, but the limitations of our eyes pretty much turn them into seven curved bands that all softly blend from one to the next. For those that are just learning how to draw though, making those bands as even as possible, and then filling them in the right color order, are enough to practice for one lesson.

Student Art by Samaya B., age 5

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A step by step tutorial for how to draw an easy rainbow, also available as a free tutorial.

Rainbow Coloring Page

Time Lapse of a Rainbow Drawing

Materials

Colored Pencils or Crayons

A larger pack will offer more color choices.

Sharpie Markers Black

A permanent marker will give you a dark black color.

Pencils

I like how this brand always makes nice dark lines.

Drawing Paper

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Step by Step Directions

Time needed: 45 minutes

How to Draw a Rainbow

Draw the horizon line.
Start the rainbow with the top curve.
Add two more evenly spaced curves below.
Add two more evenly spaced curves below.
Finish with two evenly spaced curves below.
Draw background bushes.
Draw flowers in the foreground.
Fill the sky with clouds and butterflies.
Trace with a marker and color.

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