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How to Draw a Mouse Trap
Draw a mouse trap 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 plank.
Step 1: The plank
Below the middle of your paper draw a long low rectangle for the front of the wooden plank.
Tip It is very flat, like a ruler lying down.
Step 2: The plank top
Start at the top left corner. Slant up, go along, slant down to the right corner. Add a thin end.
Step 3: The spring
Halfway along, draw a slanting rod from front up to back. Add a fat coil with 3 lines.
Step 4: The wire bar
Start at the rod's front end. Draw a long sideways U to the left, ending at its back end.
Step 5: Catch plate and arm
Draw a small plate on the right end. Add a thin arm from the bar, past the coil, to it.
Step 6: A cheese wedge
On the catch plate draw a tall triangle cheese wedge standing up, flat along the bottom.
Tip Rub out the plank's back line inside the cheese.
Step 7: Holes and sparkles
Dot 2 holes in the cheese. Draw a ground line under the plank from edge to edge. Add 2 sparkles.
Step 8: Yellow cheese, grey spring
Colour the cheese and sparkles yellow, leaving the holes white, and the spring coil grey.
Step 9: Red catch plate
Colour the catch plate red.
Step 10: Wood plank
Colour the plank wood brown, around the coil, plate and cheese. Careful, your mouse trap is set!
Your finished drawing
Follow the steps above and this is where you end up: a mouse trap, drawn by you.
Every step in one picture
