Easy How to Draw a Spider Tutorial and Spider Coloring Page

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Learn how to draw a Spider sitting on a delicate spider web. A black silhouette makes it really easy to color the background.

How to Draw a Spider

A drawing of a spider, made with the help of an easy step by step tutorial.

Sure, most people can draw something quick that kindalooks like a spider, but why not stop, add some details, and draw one that looksmuch more realistic.

Students can first draw a simple web, and then add the spider body parts on top. The coloring is easy as a good black marker will make the darkest and clearest black lines, and then a crayon color can go right on top. Just advise students to test their colors first, as some crayons are more transparent than others.

This makes a fun Halloween drawing project, but also, what better way to learn (and remember!) that spiders have eight walking legs, and insects have six? Drawing is kind of amazing in that way.

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A step by step tutorial for how to draw an easy spider, also available as a free download.

Spider Coloring Page

Materials for a Spider Drawing

  • Pencil. The Ticonderoga brand are the most reliable, make nice dark lines when you need them, and are the easiest to erase. Buying the pre-sharpened ones will save busy teachers a lot of time.
  • Eraser. Large ones you can hold in your hand do a much better job than just the pencil tip erasers, especially when erasing leftover pencil lines after tracing.
  • Black Sharpie Marker. These fine point permanent marker pens make nice black outlines, have a good tip for coloring, and never bleed when they get wet. Use them with good ventilation and add extra paper underneath to protect your tables.
  • Prang Crayons. These are a bit softer than other crayons so they sometimes look like oil pastels. They also have a some nice brown shades that Crayola does not have unless you buy their larger boxes.
  • Crayola Crayons. The reliable brand that always works well. The 24 pack has some of my favorite golden orange and yellow colors that seem a bit richer and warmer than the ones Prang has.

Spider Drawing Directions

Time needed:30 minutes.

Draw an Easy Spider

  1. Draw about 10 lines in a burst.

  2. Draw a curved ring near center. (Leave space inside for the spider.)

  3. Add a larger curved ring.

  4. Add an even larger curved ring.

  5. Draw the oval abdomen.

  6. Add the thorax, and the front legs.

  7. Add three more sets of legs.

  8. Fill the spider with a black marker.

  9. Trace with a marker and color.

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