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How to Draw a Soccer Ball: Easy Step-by-Step Art Lesson for Kids

Below you’ll find an easy step-by-step tutorial for how to draw a Soccer Ball and a Soccer Ball Coloring Page.

Soccer Ball Drawing

Learning how to draw a soccer ball is a little more complex than a basketball or football, thanks to all their pentagon shapes. Some more thought is involved, but that’s not to say it can’t be done with a little help. This tutorial directs students in how to start their pattern with a center one, and then gradually work out until their entire ball is filled with that pentagon pattern. 

Soccer, also called football in many countries, is a game in which two teams of 11 players, using any part of their bodies except their hands and arms, try to get the ball into the opposing team’s goal. Only the goalkeeper is permitted to use theirs and hands and may do so only within a specific area near the goal. The team that scores more goals wins. With about 4 billion followers, soccer is by far the most watched sport on the entire planet!

Bonus Tip: Color the black pentagon shapes first with a black crayon, and then trace the other seam lines with a light gray crayon. The result is a nice subtle shadow that gives the ball slightly padded look.

Thanks to 5th graders from Tennyson School in Vancouver, B.C.

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Soccer Ball Coloring Page

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

This is the good stuff you can buy in bulk for a good price. Note: All of the links shared here are affiliate links.

Directions

Draw a Soccer Ball Easy

  1. Draw (or trace!) a circle.

  2. Draw a tilted pentagon in the center.

  3. Add extending lines from each point.

  4. Finish one pentagon as shown.

  5. Finish the next pentagon shape.

  6. And finish another pentagon shape.

  7. Finish the last two as shown.

  8. Draw the final lines extending from each point as shown.

  9. Trace with a marker and color. Add gray crayon over the seams for a slight shadow.

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