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How to Draw a Beaver Dam
Draw a beaver dam in 13 easy steps, about 10 minutes. Free, with a printable worksheet.
Each picture adds one red line. Draw that line, then scroll to the next picture. Rub out any dashed helper lines at the end. First up: wide head.
Step 1: Wide head
Near the top of your paper draw a wide head with fat cheeks, as wide as your palm.
Tip The body will be bigger than the head.
Step 2: Ears, nose patch
On top of the head draw 2 round ears. Low on the face draw a wide oval with a nose.
Step 3: Eyes, smile and teeth
Draw 2 big eyes above the oval. From the nose draw a line into a smile. Hang 2 buck teeth.
Step 4: Whiskers
On each side, start on the oval and draw 2 short whiskers out toward the cheek, stopping before the edge.
Step 5: Big round body
Start under the left cheek. Draw a big fat pear body down and round, up to the right cheek.
Step 6: Arms and paws
From each side of the body draw an arm sloping in to a plump mitten paw on the tummy.
Step 7: Two webbed feet
Low on each side of the body, draw a short round foot pointing down and out, with 3 toe bumps.
Step 8: Flat paddle tail
Behind the body on the right draw a big flat oval tail sticking up. Cover it with criss-cross lines.
Step 9: Log dam
Behind the beaver, stack 3 long logs with round ends, each one shorter than the log below.
Step 10: Water
Draw a wavy water line from edge to edge, just under the feet and over the bottom log.
Step 11: Cream nose, sand tummy
Colour the nose patch cream. Colour the tummy and the log ends light sand. Leave the eyes white.
Step 12: Tan logs, blue water
Colour the logs tan, around the log ends. Colour the water blue, right to the edges.
Step 13: Brown fur, grey tail
Colour the head, ears, arms and feet brown, around the nose patch and eyes. Colour the tail dark grey.
Your finished drawing
Follow the steps above and this is where you end up: a beaver dam, drawn by you.
Every step in one picture
