In this lesson, we will look at what to draw for Christmas, and also consider a step-by-step drawing of how to draw Christmas, the birth of Christ with a pencil in stages.
So what to draw for Christmas. In Western countries, this holiday is celebrated on a grand scale, as we are. We are Christians, not all, of course, there are many other religions in our country, but the majority, only the countries of the former USSR are Orthodox, and Catholics in the west. They like to put up such figures on Catholic Christmas, maybe they even saw them in films, the movie “Home Alone” only comes to mind, but I don’t remember which part.
In connection with these, you can draw the Birth of Jesus, the cradle with the baby and next to Mary and Joseph. The pictures are enlarged.
Just a Christmas scene.
The Magi go to bow and bring gifts to the newborn prophet, the star shines, which indicates the path to him, if I do not confuse anything. This is depicted in silhouettes, for me, very beautiful.
Below is an illustrated picture, well, this is for the pros.
These were options associated with the birth of Jesus. Now let's see how differently you can draw Christmas. Saint Nicholas (Santa) looks at the star, and you can also just distribute it.
Here is your favorite, or rather two, holding a piece of paper with the inscription "Merry Christmas!".
Here are more Christmas options related to nature: , twig, church.
Winter landscape and bluebells.
This old postcard, you see, there is a solid sign (b) after the letters “s” and “m”.
You can just with caramel sticks, leaves, ribbons.
Now let's see, our Christmas drawing lesson, that's what we should end up with, I decided to mix the New Year theme with the birth of Jesus.
I took part of the drawing from this picture.
Take another look at where the circle should be and draw it, inside which is the animal feeder.
Then draw the hay that sticks out from above and out of the crevices.
Sheep, star and shine.
Bells (you should already know how to draw them, the lesson is) and spruce twigs. Branches are drawn simply, draw a curve, from which small curves depart, which are at a close distance to each other.
And the final touch is, we show the ringing of a bell and decorate the inscription "Merry Christmas" on the sides with such decorative lines.
Have you ever wondered which holiday of all those celebrated in the year can rightfully be called a family holiday? If not 100%, then exactly 80 percent will answer - Christmas. After all, this holiday really has a certain magical power that gathers all the dearest souls together at a wonderful, cozy, festive table. There is an atmosphere of calm and serenity in the air. And the whole house is filled with love: the love of spouses, the love of parents and children. Children are very fond of such a holiday, because a large number of hearts that love you gather nearby and everyone strives to wrap you in warmth, squeeze, and sometimes tickle. On such a holiday, even adults are ready to believe in magic, in the fulfillment of desires, and are happy to accept unexpected and pleasant surprises. And those can only be surprises made with one's own hand. And the best will be children's gifts - drawings and crafts.
Drawings on the theme of Christmas for children, ideas in stages
Childhood is truly the most magical period in our lives. When you sincerely believe in miracles, you know that all your desires and dreams will come true. And Santa Claus is not a fiction. He is real, because you saw him on New Year's Eve, and telling a rhyme, you knew that he would definitely give what you wrote about in a letter. After all, if he came, then your letter was not lost, which means you were an obedient child.
Childhood is a little fairy tale in which you are the main character. And no matter what happens to you, you know that there are Chip and Dale who will come to the rescue in difficult times, and it is they who are your dad and mom.
The main task of parents is to create this enchanting world, envelop it with warmth and love, work miracles and, of course, teach our children to be a little magical. And on the eve of the bright holiday of the Nativity of Christ, let's create a truly magical drawing together with the children, which will surely bring peace, comfort, warmth and love to our home. Or maybe a small present under the Christmas tree.
For the smallest crumbs, I offer 3 ideas for creating a picture.
Option number 1:
The first idea is an angel girl, because every kid knows who “la-la” is and is certainly confident in her kindness, friendliness, sincerity. So let's get started!
We will need a sheet of paper, a pencil and an eraser. And also for coloring our angel you can use: colored pencils, crayons, paints. For very little ones, I would recommend using finger paints. Thanks to them, the child will be more involved in the process, and working with finger paints contributes to the development of tactile sensations in babies.
The finished drawing will look like this:
Let's start creating a drawing, of course, from our face. The hair of our "la-li" is parted evenly. Therefore, we draw, so to speak, a blurry letter "L", and under it a semicircle. And immediately draw the eyes, leaving small highlights inside.
Then draw the mouth, and add volume to the hair.
Let's get to the dress. We draw lines from the head. Next, draw a collar in the form of a flag under the head and sleeves to our dress. Then we draw the hands.
The next in line are the legs, and we mark the line of shoes. And let's get to the wing. We draw a wing curved at the top. Find the top of the wing at eye level, the bottom reaches the waist of our girl. It remains a small matter. Repeat in mirror image the second wing. And don't forget the halo above your head. Our cute angel girl is ready!
Any child will love this pattern.
Option number 2:
The second idea is a Christmas sock. Increasingly, we are seeing Western motifs in the paraphernalia of New Year and Christmas designs. Therefore, the idea of a Christmas sock appeared immediately. Many children know this wonderful sock, in which you can find a gift, as well as enjoy something tasty. Let's start creating it on paper.
When finished, our drawing will look like this:
Materials for coloring socks, as well as a palette of colors, you will ask your child for advice. After all, he knows better what color will bring good luck.
The first thing that appears on our piece of paper is two crooked sticks that may remind us of two clubs. Then on our "sticks" we draw the lapels of future socks.
Then we fill the socks with goodies and gifts. And now we finish the bottom of each sock. Another magical masterpiece is ready!
Option number 3:
And the third idea will be more complicated. Let's draw a friend - a Christmas bear cub, who is in a hurry to congratulate our baby on the bright holiday of Christmas.
The finished bear will look like this:
We start drawing our friend from his head. To do this, draw a circle, inside which we draw auxiliary lines. We draw a fur coat for our hat on top of our circle. And draw ears.
We give prettiness to our friend - we draw eyes, a nose, a mouth and freckles. Then we finish our hat and move on to the torso. First, draw a scarf, from which the handles of our bear will go.
Christmas drawing to school, detailed with photo
The month of December for schoolchildren is not only final tests and pulling tails, but also involvement in the pre-holiday fuss: decorating classrooms, preparing for matinees and, of course, a bunch of fakes and drawings.
Be sure during this period, in the lessons of reading and literature, the children get acquainted with passages from the Gospel, works of domestic and world literature, where the themes of the feast of the Nativity of Christ are touched upon. Thanks to this, the children have a whole treasury of ideas that they will implement in the lessons of labor and drawing.
What can we most often observe on paper of our little Picassos? Of course, all that has recently been read and heard. Here are some photos from school exhibitions:
Look at what wonderful, warm, kind, simply fabulous drawings children create. From them emanates a certain mystery, joy, happiness and love.
Looking more closely at the creations of our children, we can name the main components that fill the drawings:
- By right, we can give the first place to the Star of Bethlehem and the Angel. These two components are visible, almost in every figure. After all, the feast of the Nativity of Christ is most often associated with some kind of salvation, lordship, which is brought to us by an angel and a star.
- The next place is occupied by images of the inhabitants of the Nativity den. Children often depict baby Jesus, Mary and Joseph, as well as the Magi, oxen and sheep.
- Landscape children love to depict a starry night, houses wrapped in snow with white smoke coming from the pipes.
- Of course, a special place in the drawings is occupied by churches and temples, as a symbol of faith, a conductor between man and God.
What do our young artists like to work with? As you can see, the choice is huge. It all depends on the ability to work with one or another technique. To create a Christmas drawing, you can use: a simple pencil, colored pencils, felt-tip pens, paints (watercolor or gouache). Many complement their drawings with sparkles, giving them shine and a little magic.
Drawing for Christmas with a pencil, step by step with a photo
And let's try to create a drawing for Christmas, for starters, with an ordinary simple pencil. To do this, we will prepare a piece of paper. It is better to choose thicker paper. And you will also need a simple pencil, eraser. And, finally, we will grab colored pencils to revive our masterpiece.
Let's define the main elements of our Christmas drawing. They will be: a sprig of spruce, as a symbol of the New Year, the winter season; candle - a symbol of mystery, night; An angel is a symbol of protection, patronage.
- To begin with, we make a sketch, place it in the center of the angel. On the left side, they ate a sprig and under the left hand of the angel, a candle. Draw a semicircle in the background. And we will limit the whole drawing with a rectangle. Part of the angel wings and branches will go beyond our drawing.
- Next, let's get down to the details: we make the face more rounded, the hair is wavy, we draw the wings. At the bottom we create a sketch of houses, but do not specify too much. Because, as planned, they are shrouded in fog.
- We revive our angel, draw facial features, as well as folds on his clothes. We erase our auxiliary lines. We take colored pencils.
Let's go yellow. We use it for the spruce branch, hair and draw a circle on the background. Then shade the face and hands of the angel with beige color. Color the hair brown. In order to make the spruce branch as realistic as possible, use two shades of green. And with sharp strokes we create needles.
The background of our drawing will be blue. We sketch the lower part and the circle with this color. By pressing on the pencil, we are trying to get a transition from dark blue to light blue. With the help of purple, we sketch our lower landscape. We also use purple and blue to outline the outline of the wings. And we will shade our entire background with orange, yellow and a little red.
To create contrast, we take a black pencil and draw the contours and details. Our Christmas drawing is ready!
Drawings of the Nativity of Christ with paints, step by step with a photo
We bring to your attention two options for Christmas drawings made with paints.
Option number 1:
We can offer the first drawing to absolutely crumbs, where they can not only get their fingers dirty, but also attach their entire palm to the drawings.
- We will need: gouache, a simple pencil, felt-tip pens, a brush, a poke, a figured cap from a felt-tip pen, a container for water and a container for diluting paint, as well as a sheet of paper pre-painted in blue.
- We prepare a container with white paint, lower our baby's hands. Then we put handprints on the prepared sheet of paper so that our prints resemble the wings of an angel. Fingers should look down and slightly to the sides.
- After, in a container with white paint, add a little red. Thus we get a pink tint. We drop one hand. We put an imprint with pink paint between two white palms a little lower. Then we stretch out a little palm, create a body for our angel.
- We add a little yellow color to the container and draw the head of an angel. We do it with the fingers of our baby. We create a mop of hair on the head. To do this, take the cap of the felt-tip pen and put prints with the round side.
- For the halo and stars we use gold paint. We draw a halo with a finger, and to create a starry sky we use a cap, but with a curly side. And we decorate the bottom of the angel's clothes with it. Using felt-tip pens, draw a face.
- We decorate the top of the wings with the reverse side of the brush. We finish the palms. And draw a branch with brown paint. Using green gouache and a brush, draw fluffy needles.
- Draw a star next to the branch. And on the branch, using a poke, we put balls of blue and pink. Our drawing is ready!
Option number 2:
We will draw the next drawing with older children.
- Required material and tools: gouache, A3 paper, nylon brushes (2, 3, 5).
- We place our sheet of paper horizontally in front of us. From the very beginning, with a simple pencil, we thinly outline the hill where the church will be located in the future. Using three colors: yellow, pink and blue, we depict the sky.
- Blurring the boundaries between the three colors of our sky. To do this, wash the brush. We remove excess water, make it just wet. Then we draw several times along the borders of the flowers. Using blue paint, paint over our hill.
- We draw the main walls of the church. And we finish the roofs.
- We draw supports for domes. We make the middle one a lighter tone, the side ones a dark shade of gray. Using yellow. We draw domes.
- Thin lines divide the wall of the church into parts. Then we blur the lines a little from one edge so that there is a shadow effect. We draw the future door.
- We draw the windows of the church and the architectural belt. Using blue color, enhance the shadows.
- We make shadows on the doors and domes. We draw snow on the roof and domes of the church.
- We draw snow on the windows, on the belt, on the slopes of the roofs and on the ledges of the walls. Strengthen our shadows by applying thin contours.
- Using a thin brush and orange color, paint the crosses on the domes. Then, with light strokes of white color, we create highlights. In the background, draw the outline of the grove in blue.
- We fill the silhouette of the grove with a pale purple color, almost translucent. Using a thin brush, paint the branches of the grove. For this we take white, blue and blue colors.
- We draw the silhouettes of future trees and shrubs in the foreground with a wide white line. Blur the outline along the inner edge. You should get a transparency effect.
- We add splendor to trees and shrubs using the same line and blur technique that we used earlier. With thin lines we draw the trunks and the main branches of shrubs and trees.
- Next, draw small branches. Add white branches and draw snowdrifts.
- We give the brightness of the snowdrifts by highlighting the upper edge in blue and a little blur. We draw stars in the sky. Randomly arrange white dots.
- We place a large star above the main dome. And with careless strokes of yellow and white colors we draw the light emanating from the star.
Our painting is ready! We truly have a masterpiece!
Christmas drawings for the competition, ideas with photos in stages
Every year on the eve of the holidays, children in the kindergarten and at school are invited to participate in creative competitions, where they can reveal their talents. Just before the Christmas holiday, most of the competitions are related to the fine arts. Such activities have a very positive effect on the development of the spiritual sphere of children's activities. The contestants get acquainted with the history of the Christmas holiday in more detail, and also join the Christian faith.
Of course, to become a winner, the drawings must be created by oneself. Then this is not just a beautiful picture, but a living real Christmas story of a little man. Of course, no one cancels the participation of parents. After all, the interest of parents gives new strength to the baby, and he fantasizes on a given topic with greater involvement and great pleasure.
In the competitive drawing, you can depict a biblical story or a Christmas tale. Frequent symbols that are depicted on Christmas Eve are a Christmas angel, a tree, bells, a temple, Christmas heroes. You can draw Christmas drawings with a pencil, paints, felt-tip pens, crayons. Many children win the hearts of the audience with works made with grits, sand or batik. However, such work is not for everyone and requires a very long training.
And we suggest trying to create several options for the Christmas drawing contest. Each option will be of varying complexity and is designed for a certain age of the contestant.
Option number 1:
We can offer to repeat the first option to the smallest participants in the competition. This drawing carries one of the symbols of the holiday - bells. After all, this is already a kind of established tradition - the ringing of bells on Christmas Eve.
- To begin with, on a piece of paper we will make sketches. Let's draw two ovals that are inclined towards each other. Thanks to the auxiliary lines, we mark the approximate size of our bells, their top and bottom. Then give the future shape with a bell and outline the outline of the bow.
- Next, we sketch the foliage and ribbons of our bow. We will remove all auxiliary lines later and the drawing will become more expressive. We give a clear shape to the bells, draw in detail the foliage and the bow. We make an inscription.
- Erase all auxiliary lines. And we can start coloring. The bow is symbolically performed in red, and the foliage in green.
- And the last touch remained - to paint the bells themselves. Our drawing is ready! In this version, these colors were used, but you can color it at your discretion.
Option number 2:
The following idea can be suggested for middle school kids. Traditionally, on the eve of such a holiday, the children get acquainted with the biblical story of Christmas. Therefore, it will be symbolic to draw one of the plots.
- Symbolically, to begin with, we make sketches of the future drawing. We draw an outline in the center of a cradle with a baby and a nearby donkey.
- Gradually we move on to the details of the room, to the baby's bed, and then we are engaged in coloring the animals. You can do this with any colors you like. Our final result looks like this:
Option number 3:
The third idea, in my opinion, is one of the most difficult. Therefore, it can be offered for older children. We will create with you not just a drawing, but a real Christmas card. To do this, we need paper for pastels and watercolor pencils, a picture of the Kazan Mother of God and the baby prepared in advance, watercolor pencils, white gouache, brushes, glue.
The picture of the Kazan Mother of God was not chosen by chance, but as a symbol of Christmas.
- At the first stage, we will need to paste our prepared picture in the upper left corner of the future postcard. Next, at the bottom left, we begin to draw the bells.
- We draw a bow on the bells and proceed to drawing the church. We depict domes.
- Using white gouache, apply snow with a hard brush. We make an inscription.
This is such a beautiful Christmas card!
Let the weather outside inspire you to create beautiful pictures! Let this winter and upcoming holidays be a source of creativity! We hope that the ideas we have proposed will help you, and you will be able to submit excellent work to your competitions at school and kindergarten!
Video: "Drawings for Christmas"
Hello everyone, New Year's weekend is coming to an end, but there are still many holidays ahead, so do not lose heart, we will soon celebrate the old New Year and Epiphany, and there spring is just around the corner! Despite the fact that Christmas is already over, you can arrange holiday-themed conversations with the children in a group and organize drawings on the theme of Christmas. After all, pupils perceive a minimum of information by ear, and if you supplement the conversation with a presentation, and then fix it with drawing, then the guys will best learn the information.
First of all, I want to note that drawing on winter themes is a wide scope for imagination and the choice of original and non-standard techniques. Moreover, children of the earliest age, starting from 2 years old, can draw. Of course, with the theme of Christmas, we will work starting with the older group. But here, for example, in "UchMag" there is an interesting album for drawing and creativity of children 2-3 years old "Draw with palm and finger" . Eat similar allowance and autumn themed.
I also recommend purchasing didactic cards to help the teacher, which will help to conduct classes in drawing, modeling and appliqué for children of different ages and on topics of different seasons: for 3-4 years , 4-5 years , 5-6 years And 6-7 years old . Please note that all sets are now presented in the online store with a good discount.
The holidays are the best time to get back to the Christmas theme. You can have a short conversation with the children, asking questions and telling those things that the children do not know about, supplementing your story with pictures from the presentation. After such a preparatory moment, drawing on the theme of Christmas in the senior group will be received with enthusiasm by the children.
Alternatively, you can tell the children about the customs of caroling at Christmas, how children dressed in sheepskin coats, sheepskins, put on masks and other attributes, sang carols under the windows and received sweets. It is the scene of caroling that can be offered to children. Pupils of this age can already draw animals without any problems, so it will be interesting to depict children with masks.
You can draw a holy night, when the Bethlehem star burns in the sky, angels appear, and arrange snowflakes in the form of stamps made with a spruce branch. All children, without exception, like the stamping technique, and most likely they have not yet painted a Christmas tree. Just after the New Year holidays, almost every kindergarten will have live spruce branches, unless, of course, you have an artificial tree installed.
The "spray" technique will also be relevant, especially if you cannot devote much time to drawing. Then you can distribute the figures of angels to the children, place them on a sheet of white paper, and decorate the rest of the sheet with blue-blue splashes. Then you raise the templates of angels - and they will stand out in snow-white on the sheet, like the leaf in the picture above.
Festive drawing in the preparatory group
For older children, you can take more complex plots, for example, the design of a den with the image of a barn, animals and a baby in a manger. If there is an image in the presentation in front of the children, then it will be much easier for them to copy the picture. Moreover, it is not necessary to draw up all the participants in the holy action. It is enough to depict a barn and a baby in a manger, and the rest is at the request and capabilities of the pupils.
Drawing on the theme of Christmas in the preparatory group can be supplemented with original techniques so that children get a lot of positive emotions from the lesson and capture it in their memory.
All children today are familiar with the “grattage” technique, but not everyone in this particular name. Almost everyone tried to work with engravings, when by scratching a black background one or another picture, white or color, is obtained. There are many such sets in stationery stores, but they are relatively expensive, often you cannot buy them. This is what the finished engraving looks like.
But you can make the basis for free drawing yourself and then draw whatever you want. As part of the kindergarten lesson, you can prepare the foundation with the children, or by yourself for each pupil. With wax and black paint. But it is important to take into account the moment that it will not work with this base on the same day - it must dry well.
It will be easiest to draw (scratch) a church with domes or the same angels, or you can also draw a winter night, or leave this issue to the discretion of the children. Let them draw what they remember most from your conversation.
Or you can build something like a postcard by printing out the base in advance, which you will need to colorize. So you can draw up a complete biblical story, children do not have to draw a complex picture, and they are always ready to color. And if there is a choice among paints, crayons, pencils or felt-tip pens, then this approach is doubly welcome.
A Christmas angel (namely an angel, not an angel) is a traditionally popular topic for crafts. Children love it in all forms.
Two years ago, the guys and I made a three-dimensional paper angel. The work is simple to the point of primitiveness: cut out a printed figure from paper and glue it in one place. But children will not be children if they don’t come up with something: round dances of painted angels decorated with appliqué appeared, adult angels with angels in their arms ... As a result, all crafts became completely different.
For Christmas, you can draw an angel with colored pencils (or other materials) to get a rich, bright illustration for the brightest holiday of the year. They can embellish a postcard or a chocolate bar, because the drawing will turn out beautiful and neat for the guys who applied this lesson. The drawing of a Christmas angel can be used as a coloring book or part of a large plot picture.
Christmas angel
We will need:
- paper (depending on the purpose of the drawing),
- materials for coloring (pencils, pastels, plasticine, etc.),
- simple pencil, eraser.
Angel Drawing Sequence
We cut it out along the contour, glue pieces of voluminous adhesive tape on the back side and apply it to the front of the postcard. It remains only to add congratulatory phrases and present to the selected person. Also, the finished drawing can not be cut out, but inserted into a small frame. Also suitable for participation in school and kindergarten competitions and exhibitions.
Cartoon "Angel" based on Andersen G. H.
Andersen wrote many wonderful and kind fairy tales with which we are not familiar. A cartoon based on one of them.
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Christmas is one of the biggest and brightest Christian holidays. I celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ in all branches of Christianity, although the dates differ significantly:
- Catholic Christmas is celebrated on December 25 (according to the Gregorian calendar);
- Orthodox (in Russia and many post-Soviet countries) - January 6 (according to the Julian calendar).
Many Protestant denominations, as well as the Orthodox of some Western countries, also celebrate this great holiday before the New Year. But, regardless of beliefs and belonging to a particular denomination, all Christians on this day gather with their families in order to glorify the birth of the Savior. For those who cannot take part in a family dinner, in 2018 for Christmas you can give beautiful pictures, supplementing them with warm sincere wishes.
We have selected for you the most original Christmas cards:
In Russia, the tradition of giving beautiful Christmas pictures on Christmas Eve originated in the 90s of the 19th century. The first postcards were brought from England. And, although in Europe it has long been customary to decorate pictures with the inscription "Merry Christmas", the first copies brought to Russia, for obvious reasons, were without words. People liked the beautiful tradition and quickly took root. Already in 1898, the first postcards for Christmas were issued in Russia based on paintings by St. Petersburg artists.
Although many years have passed, but even today, in 2018, everyone is pleased to receive touching Christmas pictures depicting little Christ as a gift.
Christmas pictures with angels
An angel brought the good news to the Virgin Mary about the imminent birth of a baby. The angels also announced a significant event and indicated the location of the newborn Savior. That is why angels are one of the main symbols of Christmas. In 2018, you can present a beautiful porcelain figurine to your loved ones for Christmas or give drawings depicting an angel.
European Christmas cards
During the Christmas holidays, Russians often go on a visit, visiting friends and acquaintances. In Europe, Christmas is a purely family holiday. For a festive dinner, it is customary to gather at the table the closest relatives and friends. Hearth and decorated spruce are the invariable symbol of home comfort and solemn atmosphere of the most anticipated holiday for children. That is why such Christmas drawings are popular in Europe.
Appetizing pictures for Christmas
In all countries, it is traditional to set the Christmas table. Since the holiday is preceded by a severe fast, which ends with the appearance of the first star in the sky, the hostesses always try to surprise guests with delicious and beautifully decorated dishes.
There is even culinary tourism. Travelers are offered not only to spend Christmas in one of the European countries, but also to try traditional Christmas goodies. In major European cities and capitals, they are held, where you can buy a wide variety of themed treats.
That is why, postcards or pictures with a beautifully decorated table, presented for Christmas - this is a wish that in 2018 there would always be prosperity in the house.
