Easy How to Draw a Terrarium Tutorial and Terrarium Template Page
Below you’ll find an easy step-by-step tutorial for how to draw a Terrarium. Drawing plants with their root system can be pretty too!
Terrarium Painting
Here’s a fun painting project that can help integrate more art with your plant studies. And if you use a few aids (like a jar template to trace) to get started, you’ll find that students as young as kindergarten can learn how to draw a terrarium.
This project was always a teacher favorite back when I was in the classroom, but there are three things that I would consider vital to making it work with a room full of kinders … or even 5th graders. One, use watercolor paper so the paint colors look their brightest. Two, have a chipboard jar template ready for tracing so everyone gets off to a quick start. Three, use liquid watercolor paint so students can just concentrate on painting, and not mixing the right amount of water with the paint.
Please be advised though, that it’s best for you to test your crayon and paint combo first before you hand it out to a roomful of students. I’ve found recently that some brands of watercolor will actually just sit on top of and cover up the crayon, and not leave a nice white line. It’s rather disappointing to get to the final paint stage and not have that work. Especially if you are only 6, and it’s one of your first paintings.
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A Terrarium Painting in a Recycled Art Journal
Terrarium Template Page
Materials to Paint a Terrarium
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Materials
Watercolor Paper*
Liquid Watercolor Paint*
Crayola Crayons*
Rounded Paintbrush
Pencil*
Non Spill Paint Cups*
Directions
Step by Step Directions to Draw a Terrarium
Time needed: 1 hour
How to Draw a Terrarium
- Make a template for students.
- Trace template with a pencil.
- Draw ground, lid, first flower.
- Draw two more flowers.
- Trace with crayon, color flowers
- Draw white roots firmly with crayon.
- Brush brown watercolor paint over white crayon roots.
- Add paint around the flowers and paint the lid.
- Paint the background a contrasting color.
