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How to Draw an Acorn: Easy Step-by-Step Art Lesson for Kids

Here you’ll find an easy step-by-step tutorial for how to draw an Acorn. Make it big so students can enjoy drawing all that fun texture found in the cap!

Easy Acorn Crayon Drawing

Finished acorn drawing showing fully colored example from the how to draw an acorn lesson

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Another Acorn Crayon Drawing

A drawing of an acorn, made with the help of an easy step by step tutorial.

These little seeds might be one of the simplest symbols of fall, but when students learn how to draw an acorn and make it BIG, they can really zone in on some of the small details. Those tiny little shapes in the cap, for instance, would be much more difficult to do if they were drawn actual size.

Drawing from real life is helpful for older students, but younger ones sometimes need a little help in seeing patterns that they can replicate themselves. This acorn cap may seem to be made up of a random collection of overlapping V shapes, but there is order to them. The ones on top are a bit larger, and then they get a bit smaller as they go down. If students follow the plan shown on the step by step tutorial, it will walk them through an easy process of creating the look themselves.

Student Acorn Art

  • Acorn Art by 3rd graders in CA

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A step by step tutorial for how to draw an easy acorn, also available as a printable.
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Acorn Coloring Page

Acorn Coloring Page, available as a printable
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Materials to Draw an Acorn


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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How to Draw an Acorn Step by Step

Time needed: 45 minutes

How to Draw an Easy Acorn

  1. Draw a large U shape.

    Step 1 of how to draw an acorn shows a pencil-drawn oval shape for the nut

  2. Add the acorn cap.

    Step 2 in how to draw an acorn adds a cap shape over the oval

  3. Draw the stem and bottom nub.

    Step 3 of how to draw an acorn adds a small curved stem on top of the cap

  4. Draw large V shapes across the top.

    Step 4 in how to draw an acorn begins diagonal line pattern on cap

  5. Add medium V shapes below.

    Step 5 of how to draw an acorn continues diagonal lines across the cap

  6. Fill in with more medium V shapes.

    Step 6 in how to draw an acorn adds opposite diagonal lines for crosshatch texture

  7. Fill in the rest of the cap with very small V shapes.

    Step 7 of how to draw an acorn finishes crosshatch pattern on the acorn cap

  8. Trace all the lines except for the gray line with a marker. Erase it when complete.

    Step 8 in how to draw an acorn adds a small bump to the bottom of the nut

  9. Color the cap dark brown and the acorn rust. Retrace with marker lines so they show up when complete.

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3 Comments

  1. Please please do an e-book! I have bought books, courses and still trying one now which is so long winded and does not really make you feel like you are making progress at all. The girls really want to sketch properly, and there is nothing out there really that is not pompous really! This acorn is fabulous exactly what they need thank you!

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