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How to Draw Christmas Lights
Draw Christmas lights in 10 easy steps, about 8 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: the wire.
Step 1: The wire
Draw a long wire drooping in a gentle U, starting and stopping a little way in from the sides.
Tip Start a third of the way down the paper.
Step 2: Five sockets
Along the wire, draw 5 little boxes hanging under it, evenly spaced, for the sockets.
Tip The end ones lean out a little, following the wire.
Step 3: The middle bulb
Under the middle socket, hang a fat teardrop bulb, its top as wide as the socket.
Step 4: Four more bulbs
Hang the same fat teardrop bulb under each of the other 4 sockets, leaning the way each socket leans.
Step 5: Shines
On the left side of each bulb draw one short curved shine line, following the edge.
Step 6: Socket ridges
Across the middle of each socket draw one short line from side to side, so the socket looks ridged.
Step 7: Sparkles
Draw a small sparkle star under each end of the wire, and one above the middle of the wire.
Step 8: Yellow and red
Colour the second bulb and the 3 sparkles yellow, then colour the two end bulbs red.
Step 9: Green and blue bulbs
Colour the middle bulb green and the fourth bulb blue.
Step 10: Grey sockets
Colour the sockets dark grey. Go over your lines and your Christmas lights are glowing!
Your finished drawing
Follow the steps above and this is where you end up: Christmas lights, drawn by you.
Every step in one picture
