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How to Draw a Windmill
Draw a windmill 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 tower.
Step 1: The tower
Low in the middle of your paper, draw a tall tower, narrower at the top, with a flat top.
Tip The tower is like a tall flowerpot turned upside down.
Step 2: The cap
Start on the left end of the top. Draw a dome over, stop on the right end. Add a hub.
Step 3: Four blades
From the hub draw 4 long straight blades in an X, 2 up and 2 down.
Tip The blades are in front of the tower, so draw them right over it.
Step 4: Blade rungs
Draw 3 short lines across each blade from edge to edge for the rungs, evenly spaced.
Step 5: The door
In the bottom middle of the tower, draw an arched door, up, rainbow over, back down. Add a knob.
Step 6: The window
Halfway up the tower draw a round window with a plus sign inside, edge to edge.
Step 7: The ground
From each bottom corner draw the ground out to the paper's edge. Add 3 grass blades at each end.
Step 8: Two bands
Below the window draw 2 lines across the tower, bowing down. Start at each edge and stop at the door.
Step 9: Bushes and tulips
At each bottom corner draw a bumpy bush, starting and stopping on the ground. Add a tulip at each edge.
Step 10: Cream tower
Colour the tower cream around the door, blades and bushes.
Step 11: Blades, door and bushes
Colour the 4 blades and the door wood brown, and the bushes and tulip leaves green.
Step 12: Red tulips, brown cap
Colour the tulips red, and the cap and hub dark brown around the blades. Your windmill is done!
Your finished drawing
Follow the steps above and this is where you end up: a windmill, drawn by you.
Every step in one picture
