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How to Draw a Greek Key
Draw a Greek key 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 long box.
Step 1: The long box
Across the middle of your paper draw a long box, twice as wide as it is tall.
Tip A Greek key is one line that keeps turning square corners. Use a ruler if you like.
Step 2: Two stripes
Near the top, start on the left edge and draw across. Stop on the right edge. Repeat near the bottom.
Step 3: Up and over
Start on the left edge, a little above the bottom stripe. Go right a little, up, then right. Stop.
Tip Leave the same gap under the top stripe as above the bottom stripe.
Step 4: The hook
Start where you stopped. Go halfway down, back left halfway, down again, then right twice as far. Stop.
Step 5: Second key
Start where you stopped and do it all again: up, right, down, left, down, right. Stop.
Tip Keep every gap as wide as the first one.
Step 6: Third key
Start there and draw one more key the same way. Stop on the right edge of the box.
Step 7: Sparkles
Draw 2 sparkle stars above the box and 2 below it.
Step 8: Yellow hooks
Go over your lines. Colour under your key line yellow, up into the 3 hooks. Colour the sparkles yellow too.
Step 9: Orange stripes
Colour the thin stripe along the top and the thin stripe along the bottom orange.
Step 10: Blue hooks
Colour the path above your key line blue, down into its hooks. Your Greek key is done!
Your finished drawing
Follow the steps above and this is where you end up: a Greek key, drawn by you.
Every step in one picture
