How to Draw a Sheep (Easy Step-by-Step for Kids)
To draw a sheep, start with a big bumpy cloud shape for the body. Add an oval face with eyes and a smile, two ears and a fluffy tuft on top. Finish with four short legs with hooves.
- Steps
- 6 easy steps
- You need
- Pencil
- Eraser
- Black marker
- Light gray and dark gray 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 sheep step by step
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Step 1 of 6: Draw a big round cloud shape with bumpy edges all around for the woolly body.
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Step 2 of 6: Add an oval face in the middle of the body. Draw two black eyes with white dots and a small smile.
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Step 3 of 6: Draw two long oval ears sticking out to the left and right from the upper sides of the face.
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Step 4 of 6: Add a fluffy wool tuft with round bumps on top of the head. Erase the face line under the tuft.
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Step 5 of 6: Draw two front legs under the body and two back legs peeking out beside them, each with a hoof line.
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Step 6 of 6: Color the face, ears and legs light gray, hooves dark gray. Leave the wool and the eye dots white.
Tips for little artists
Tip: Press lightly with the pencil first. Trace the lines you like with the marker, then erase the rest.
Tip: Keep the face in the middle of the cloud body so the wool shows all the way around it.
Tip: Draw the two front legs a little longer than the back legs, so the back legs peek out behind them.
Make it yours
Sleepy sheep
Draw each eye as a curve that bends down and add a few stars around your sheep.
Sheep with a scarf
Draw a striped scarf under the face and let one end hang down over the wool.
Sheep on a hill
Draw a green hill under the hooves and a wooden fence behind your sheep.
Common mistakes and easy fixes
The body looks like a smooth circle
Draw the edge as many round bumps joined together, like a cloud.
The ears point straight up
Draw the ears sticking out to the sides from the upper part of the face.
The face line shows inside the tuft
Erase the top of the face where the tuft sits, so the tuft looks like it is on top.
Fun facts about the sheep
Sheep have a field of vision of almost 360 degrees, so they can see behind themselves without turning their heads. (Source: University of Kentucky Cooperative Extension)
Sheep have no front teeth in the upper jaw. Instead, they have a hard upper dental pad. (Source: University of Kentucky Cooperative Extension)
Sheep raised for wool production are shorn once a year. (Source: University of Kentucky Cooperative Extension)
Questions grown-ups ask
How to draw a sheep easy?
Draw a big bumpy cloud for the body and an oval face in the middle. Add two ears, a wool tuft on top and four short legs.
How to draw a sheep for kids?
Start with one big cloud shape, which is easy to draw and already looks woolly. The 6 steps above then add the face, ears, tuft and legs one at a time.
What color to color a sheep?
In this drawing the wool and tuft stay white. The face, ears and legs are light gray and the hooves are dark gray.
If your cloud body came out a little lopsided, that's fine. Your sheep looks soft and fluffy. More easy drawings for kids are on the home page.