For Teachers

The worksheets on Pencil Camp print on one page, carry their own instruction at the top and need nothing but a pencil. That makes them easy to hand out at the start of a lesson or leave for a cover teacher. This page covers ages, a few lesson shapes and what you are allowed to do with the files.

Which sheets for which ages?

• Ages 4 to 6: trace and draw sheets and the simplest step sheets, such as the house, the sun and the penguin. Wobbly circles are fine at this age; the point is noticing that a cat starts as a circle on an oval.
• Ages 7 to 9: step sheets for any of the 35 subjects, the finish the drawing sheets and the easier symmetry sheets. Most children this age can keep the guide shapes light and follow six frames in order.
• Ages 10 and up: grid drawing, the shading sheet with its value scale and four solids, and one point perspective. The skeleton symmetry sheet is a good stretch for fast finishers.

Three ways to use a sheet in class

1. Ten minute warm up. Put the drawing idea generator on the projector, press once and give everyone five minutes. Then compare results.
2. One subject, three sheets. Pick one animal. Children start on its step sheet, move to the trace sheet, and finish on the finish the drawing sheet with the reference folded away. Across a lesson they go from copying to drawing with less help each time.
3. Draw, then write. The draw and write paper has a large picture box above six lines with a dashed midline. Children draw a scene first, then write one or two sentences about it.

If you need a plan someone else can run, the art sub plans page has four timed lessons built on these sheets, plus a ten minute fallback.

Classroom rights, in short

• Print as many copies as your class needs, every year, at no cost.
• Project sheets and display the children's work.
• Send colleagues a link to the page rather than the PDF file, so they always get the current version.
• Link to pages from Google Classroom, Seesaw, a class blog or the school website.
• Clubs, tutors and occupational therapists are covered by the same free licence.
• Do not sell the sheets, add them to a paid pack or upload them to another site. The full licensing policy has the details.

Printing for a class

Every sheet is US Letter and prints on A4 with "Fit to page". Tracing sheets need normal print quality, because draft mode can wipe out the faint drawing. The how to print page has the settings for each kind of sheet.

Requests and corrections

If a sheet has a mistake, prints badly or is missing something you need for a topic, write to us. Say which sheet and which age group, and we will look at it.

Last updated: October 2026.