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How to Draw a Henna Hand
Draw a henna hand 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: the palm.
Step 1: The palm
In the middle of your paper, a little to the right, draw a big rounded square for the palm.
Tip Leave room above for the fingers and on the left for the thumb.
Step 2: The middle finger
Start on the palm's top, left of the middle. Draw a tall finger: up, round, down. Stop on the palm.
Step 3: Pointing and ring fingers
Draw a shorter finger on each side of it. Start and stop each one on the palm's top.
Tip Leave a small gap between the fingers.
Step 4: The little finger
At the right end draw the shortest finger, leaning out. Start and stop on the palm's top.
Step 5: The thumb
On the palm's left side draw a fat thumb pointing up and out. Rub out the palm line inside it.
Tip The thumb is shorter and fatter than the fingers, and thinner at its tip.
Step 6: Wrist and sleeve
Under the palm draw 2 wrist lines straight down to a wide flat box, the sleeve.
Step 7: Flower middle
In the middle of the palm draw a small circle. The henna flower grows around it.
Tip Henna is a brown paste used to paint patterns on skin for special days.
Step 8: Eight round petals
Draw 8 round petals around the circle. Each petal starts and stops on the circle, touching the next one.
Tip Draw the top, bottom, left and right petals first, then one in each gap.
Step 9: Finger leaves
In the middle of each finger and the thumb draw a leaf: round at the bottom, pointed towards the fingertip.
Step 10: Wrist band
Draw 2 lines across the wrist, from edge to edge, like a bracelet.
Step 11: Peach fingers
Go over your lines. Colour the fingers and the thumb peach, going around the leaves.
Step 12: Peach palm, pink sleeve
Colour the palm, the flower's middle and the wrist peach, around the petals and the band. Colour the sleeve pink.
Step 13: Brown henna
Colour the 8 petals, the 5 leaves and the wrist band brown. Your henna hand is done!
Tip Real henna paste dries, flakes off and leaves the pattern on the skin.
Your finished drawing
Follow the steps above and this is where you end up: a henna hand, drawn by you.
Every step in one picture
