Let's draw an orange!

Drawing is always fun but it is esepecially important in the early years of school.

Drawing can help:

Develop fine motor skills:

  • Drawing requires children to use the small muscles in their hands and fingers, which helps develop fine motor skills. 
  • These skills are essential for writing and to complete other tasks in the classroom - playing math games and engaging with hands-on learning for concepts like measurement, space and geometry.

Enhance creativity:

  • Drawing allows children to express themselves creatively and to explore their imaginations. 
  • It helps children develop problem-solving skills, as they experiment, make choices and decisions to represent their ideas.

Promote self-expression:

  • Drawing gives children a way to communicate their thoughts and feelings without using words. 
  • It can also be a therapeutic activity for children who are struggling with difficult emotions.
Here is a project you can do easily with paper, crayons and watercolors - an orange!  

how to draw an orange

Here are the steps:


art project crayon orange

After drawing one your students can draw a whole page full and then add a tree foliage background or cut them out for display. 

orange drawing in kindergarten

If you love teaching action and counting rhymes in your learning program, you may also like my new rhyme: Orange Tree. It's included in the bundle of rhymes and is a valuable tool for math while integrating reading, language and listening. 

This rhymes combine rhyme and actions in a fun and engaging way to explore numbers to ten and counting forward and back.

orange action rhyme

I hope you have a great day at school today and you hear your students say things like:
  • "Yay, I love art!"
  • "What are we going to make?"
  • "Do I get to use the glitter?"