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How to Draw a Ladle
Draw a ladle in 12 easy steps, about 9 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 cup.
Step 1: The cup
Below and left of the middle draw 1 wide flat oval for the top of the ladle's cup.
Tip A ladle's cup is a deep little bowl; we start with its round top.
Step 2: The deep cup
Start at the oval's left end. Draw a deep U under it, back up to the oval's right end.
Tip Make it as deep as the oval is wide: a ladle scoops a lot.
Step 3: Two big eyes
On the front of the cup, below the oval, draw 2 big egg eyes. Colour a black dot in each.
Step 4: Smile and cheeks
Under the eyes draw a wide U smile, and a small flat oval cheek beside each end of the smile.
Step 5: The inside
Inside the top oval draw a second smaller oval, a finger in from the edge: the inside of the cup.
Step 6: The long handle
From the right end of the oval draw 2 long lines up right, a finger apart, for the handle.
Tip Make them 3 cups long.
Step 7: The hook
Start at the top of the right line. Curl a hook over and back, and stop at the left line.
Tip The hook lets it hang on a rail.
Step 8: Sparkles
Draw a little 4-point sparkle left of the cup and a smaller one right of the handle.
Step 9: Pink cheeks, yellow sparkles
Go over your lines, then colour the cheeks pink and the sparkles yellow.
Step 10: Grey rim
Colour the rim, the ring between the 2 ovals, light grey.
Step 11: Orange soup
Colour the soup inside the small oval orange.
Step 12: Slate ladle
Colour the cup and handle slate around the cheeks, leaving the eyes white. Your ladle is ready!
Your finished drawing
Follow the steps above and this is where you end up: a ladle, drawn by you.
Every step in one picture
