How to Draw a Mountain (Easy Step-by-Step for Kids)
To draw a mountain, start with one big triangle and a smaller mountain behind it. Add a wavy snow line to each top and a round sun peeking out. Finish with two pine trees in front.
- Steps
- 6 easy steps
- You need
- Pencil
- Eraser
- Black marker
- Blue, sky blue, yellow, light and dark green, brown crayons
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Teaching this to a class?
Show one step at a time on the board and wait for the class before the next. The directed drawing for kids page explains how to run it.
How to draw a mountain step by step
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Step 1 of 6: Draw one big triangle mountain with a rounded peak and a small bump on the right slope.
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Step 2 of 6: Add a smaller mountain behind it on the left. Stop its lines where they touch the big mountain.
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Step 3 of 6: Draw a wavy snow line across the top of each mountain, from one side to the other.
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Step 4 of 6: Add a round sun behind the big mountain on the right. Stop the circle at the mountain's edge.
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Step 5 of 6: Draw two pine trees with trunks, small left, big right. Erase the mountain lines inside the trees.
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Step 6 of 6: Color blue and sky blue mountains, yellow sun, light and dark green trees, brown trunks, white snow.
Tips for little artists
Tip: Press lightly with the pencil first. Trace the lines you like with the marker, then erase the rest.
Tip: Make the bottom of the big mountain much wider than its peak so it looks tall and steady.
Tip: Leave the snow caps white and color the top two layers of each tree lighter than the bottom one.
Make it yours
Night mountains
Draw a moon instead of the sun and add a few small stars above the peaks.
Mountain lake
Draw a wavy blue lake along the bottom in front of the trees.
Three peaks
Add a third small mountain behind the right side of the big one.
Common mistakes and easy fixes
The small mountain looks like it is in front
Stop its lines where they touch the big mountain so it sits behind.
The sun looks stuck on the peak
Hide part of the circle behind the right slope of the big mountain.
The snow line looks like a ruler line
Draw it with small rounded waves that dip down and come back up.
Fun facts about the mountain
A group of mountains is called a range. (Source: Britannica Kids)
The Himalayas, the highest mountains on Earth, are forming where thick blocks of continental crust, India and Asia, collide. (Source: National Park Service)
In the nineteenth century, Mount Everest was named after George Everest, a former Surveyor General of India. (Source: National Geographic Education)
Questions grown-ups ask
How to draw a mountain step by step?
Draw a big triangle mountain, then a smaller one behind it. Add wavy snow lines, a sun and two pine trees. Color everything in the last of the 6 steps.
How to draw small mountains easily?
Draw a narrow triangle with a rounded top behind a bigger mountain. Stop its lines where they touch the big one, so it sits in the back.
How to draw a mountain with color?
Color the big mountain blue, the small one sky blue and the sun yellow. Make the trees light and dark green with brown trunks. Leave the snow caps white.
If your peaks came out a little crooked, that's fine. Your mountain scene is all your own. More easy drawings for kids are on the home page.