How to Draw Big and Small Pumpkins
10 easy strokes · ages 3+ · free printable worksheet
To draw big and small pumpkins with a 3-5 year old, break it into 10 simple strokes: a big pumpkin, its green stem, one eye, two eyes, a big smile, and a small pumpkin, a tiny stem and a few finishing touches. Doodle Turtle draws one line at a time and then pauses, so little hands have time to catch up before the next line appears. Doodle Turtle is free, runs in any browser, has no ads and needs no sign-up.
Step by step: 10 easy strokes
- STEP 1A big pumpkin
- STEP 2Its green stem
- STEP 3One eye
- STEP 4Two eyes!
- STEP 5A big smile
- STEP 6And a small pumpkin
- STEP 7A tiny stem
- STEP 8One tiny eye
- STEP 9Two tiny eyes!
- STEP 10A small smile. Big and small!
Free printable tracing worksheet
Prefer paper? Print big and small pumpkins as a faint tracing outline — your child draws straight over the lines, then colours it in.
Tips for grown-ups
- Watch first, then draw. The first pass is just for looking — no pressure to keep up.
- Let the pause do the work. If your child is still drawing when the next stroke starts, tap to pause. Slower is the point.
- Big paper, fat crayons. At 3 the wrist is still learning; large movements are easier than small ones.
- Praise the trying, not the likeness. A wobbly pumpkins that they drew themselves beats a neat one you fixed.