About Pencil Camp

Pencil Camp is a small independent site run by Willa Fern. It makes one page drawing worksheets that a child can do at a desk with a pencil: step sheets, grids, tracing, finish the drawing, symmetry, shading, perspective and draw and write paper. Everything is free to print.

The site began in July 2026 as a set of on screen drawing tutorials. In August 2026 it changed direction. Watching a tutorial and printing a sheet are different jobs, and the sheets are what parents and teachers asked for, so the tutorials were retired and their step drawings became the printables you see now.

Where the drawings come from

There are 35 subjects, from a bear and a cat to a skeleton, a pickup truck and the word HI in bubble letters. Each one is broken into six to ten stages. A drawing starts from two or three pale dashed guide shapes, and every stage adds one part, drawn in red so the change is easy to spot. Those stage drawings are the raw material for every format on the site.

The sheets are laid out by a script from the same drawings, which is how one cat can appear as a step sheet, a grid, a tracing page and a half finished picture. Every PDF is read back after it is built to check that no text runs off the page.

Who uses it

Parents at a kitchen table, teachers in a classroom, tutors, after school clubs and occupational therapists working on pencil control. The for teachers page has ages, lesson ideas and classroom rights. What you can and cannot do with the files is set out in the licensing policy.

How it is paid for

The site is meant to be paid for by advertising. There are no accounts, no newsletter, no premium tier and nothing to buy. If a sheet prints badly or a drawing has a mistake in it, tell us and it will be fixed.

Last updated: October 2026.