Winter Landscape Drawing for Kids: Easy Seasonal Scenery Art Idea
Below you’ll find an easy step-by-step tutorial for how to draw a Winter Landscape and a Winter Landscape Coloring Page.
Winter Landscape Drawing
Teagen’s Winter Landscape Drawing
How to Draw a Winter Landscape
Winter landscape drawing projects needn’t be complicated or involve lots of fancy supplies. This one is simple and satisfying, with a stunning end result that looks more advanced than it is. Students create a snowy scene featuring silhouettes of bare trees under a glowing, moonlit sky — and all you need are a couple of crayons and a black marker.
This lesson is perfect for the busy winter season when time and materials are limited, but you still want a high-impact art project that builds student confidence.
Teaching Contrast Through Winter Art
This drawing makes an excellent example of one of the Principles of Design — Contrast. The bold black trees silhouetted against the white snow are striking and dramatic. They demonstrate how much impact high contrast can have in a composition — far more visually powerful than, say, brown trees against green grass.
Students quickly see how choosing colors and shapes that stand out from one another adds visual interest and strengthens their artwork.
Color Theory in Winter Landscapes
Another benefit of a project like this is that it opens up a chance to talk about color theory, particularly cool colors and how they are used to evoke mood. Winter scenes are a great way to introduce the cool color family — blues, purples — and how they can be layered to create depth and atmosphere.
Ask students how different colors make them feel. Then experiment with layering blue and purple crayons to create a night sky.. These simple choices help reinforce the emotional and visual impact of color in their work.
Cross-Curricular Connection: Descriptive Writing for Winter Scenes
For a quick writing activity, have students describe their winter landscapes using sensory language. What does the snow sound like underfoot? How does the cold air feel on their face? What might they hear in a quiet forest on a winter night?
Encouraging students to write a short paragraph or poem about their scene helps build language skills while strengthening their ability to observe and interpret the world around them — a key habit for both artists and writers.
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Materials for a Winter Landscape Drawing
Step by Step Directions to Draw a Winter Landscape
Time needed: 45 minutes
How to Draw a Winter Landscape
- Draw the snow banks.
- Space out 3 tree trunks.
- Add branches to the left tree.
- Draw more branches to the middle tree.
- Add branches to the right tree.
- Draw a moon.
- Draw shadows that point to the moon.
- Color the trees black and the shadows gray.
- Color the sky, leaving spots for snow.
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