For Teachers

Welcome, teacher. Every tutorial on Pencil Camp is built so a child can follow it alone, with one pencil, which makes it easy to drop into a lesson. This page answers the questions schools ask us most.

Which ages is this for?

• Ages 4 to 6: the easy tutorials with the fewest steps. Expect wobbly circles, and let them be wobbly. At this age the win is noticing that a cat is made of a circle and an oval, not producing a neat cat.
• Ages 7 to 9: the core audience. Kids can hold the guide shapes lightly, follow six to ten steps in order and self-correct when a part looks wrong.
• Ages 10 and up: the medium tutorials, and a better challenge is to change something on purpose: give the dragon different wings, redraw the subject bigger, or add a background.

Every tutorial page lists its own age range and step count, so you can match one to your group before you print.

A tutorial as a 10 minute lesson

1. Print the step sheet (one page per child) or put the tutorial on the projector. See how to print for the settings.
2. Minute 1: show the finished drawing. Ask what shapes they can already see hiding in it.
3. Minutes 2 to 3: everyone sketches the grey guide shapes, lightly. This is the step that decides whether the drawing works, so it is worth slowing down for. Tell them the guides get rubbed out later.
4. Minutes 4 to 8: work through the steps together, one at a time. Only the red lines are new in each step, so a child who falls behind can catch up by looking at what is red.
5. Minutes 9 to 10: rub out the guide shapes, go over the outline, colour it in if there is time.

Fast finishers can draw the same subject again from memory, without the sheet. It is the same lesson and it is much harder than it sounds.

Your classroom rights, in plain words

• Print freely: make as many copies of any step sheet as you need for your students: every year, every class, no limits and no cost.
• Project and display: put a tutorial on the whiteboard, or pin printed sheets up in the classroom.
• Share with colleagues: send them the link to the tutorial page. Please link rather than forwarding the PDF files: that is what keeps the resources free for everyone.
• Use in school platforms: you may link to our pages from Google Classroom, Seesaw, your class blog or your school website. Linking is always welcome.
• Clubs, tutoring and therapy: after-school clubs, tutors and occupational therapists are covered by the same free licence.
• What you may not do: sell the sheets, put them in a paid resource pack, or re-upload them to another site or marketplace. The full licensing policy spells it out.

How to reference us

If your school website, newsletter or resource list mentions our tutorials, a simple link is the perfect citation:

Free step by step drawing tutorials from Pencil Camp | https://www.pencilcamp.com

No formal attribution is required on printed copies: the small footer on each step sheet is enough.

Request a tutorial

Missing something for a topic you are teaching? We draw new tutorials every week and teacher requests go to the top of the list. Tell us what you need: real people read every message.

Last updated: July 2026.