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How to Draw a Plant Life Cycle
Draw a plant life cycle in 14 easy steps, about 11 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: a sunflower seed.
Step 1: A sunflower seed
At the top draw a fat seed with a pointed tip. Draw a thin stripe inside it.
Tip Every sunflower starts as one seed like this.
Step 2: The seed sprouts
On the right draw a little hill of soil. Draw a short stem growing up from the top.
Tip The seed is under the soil. Water and warmth wake it up.
Step 3: Two seed leaves
At the top of the short stem draw 2 round leaves, one on each side, like a letter V.
Step 4: A taller stem
At the bottom draw another hill of soil. Draw a taller stem growing up from it.
Step 5: Four pointed leaves
Draw 2 big pointed leaves low on the tall stem, and 2 smaller ones higher up.
Tip Each leaf starts on the stem and points up and out.
Step 6: A flower bud
On top of the tall stem draw a bud: a small egg with a pointed top.
Step 7: The flower's middle
On the left, up high, draw a circle for the middle of the sunflower.
Tip Leave room all round the circle for the petals.
Step 8: Petals all round
Draw 10 pointed petals all the way round the circle, each one touching the next.
Tip Draw the top and bottom petals first, then 4 more down each side.
Step 9: Stem and soil
Under the flower draw a hill of soil. Join the flower to the hill with a long stem.
Step 10: Two big leaves
Halfway down the long stem draw 2 big pointed leaves, one on each side.
Step 11: Arrows round the ring
Draw a curved arrow from each picture to the next: seed, sprout, young plant, flower, then back to the seed.
Tip The flower makes new seeds, so the story starts again.
Step 12: Yellow petals
Colour all the sunflower's petals yellow.
Step 13: Green stems and leaves
Colour every stem and leaf green, and the bud too.
Step 14: Brown soil, black seed
Colour the soil and the flower's middle brown. Colour the seed black around its stripe, leaving the stripe white.
Your finished drawing
Follow the steps above and this is where you end up: a plant life cycle, drawn by you.
Every step in one picture
