How to Draw a Lantern for Kids
Learn how to draw a lantern for kids step by step with this elementary drawing tutorial for schoolers and preschoolers.


Welcome to the tutorial on how to draw a lantern for kids. A lantern is one of the most famous sources of light at night. They first appeared in 1417 in England. There was no electricity in the lantern, but the candles were burning. The next stages in the development of lanterns included various mechanisms and ideas for the use of fuel, for example, the invention of an oil lantern with a cotton wick and the use of hemp oil as fuel. Named such a flashlight is presented in this manual. The process of drawing a lantern itself is not entirely complicated, everything consists of the simplest geometric shapes.
Time needed: 20 minutes.
How to Draw a Lantern for Kids
- Draw a hook.
Let’s start by drawing a hanging hook, which is fairly easy to draw as two rings.
- Draw the cap.
Draw a hat in the shape of a semicircle near the hook, connect the edges with a horizontal line from below.
- Draw the base of the lantern.
To do this, draw a rectangle just below the header you drew earlier.
- Draw a lamp chimney.
To do this, it will be enough to connect the cap and base of the luminaire with two vertical lines at the edges and two more closer to the center.
- Draw the fire.
Fire can be drawn arbitrarily in the shape of a polygon.
- Color the drawing.
We hope that this was a useful and informative lesson for you. Be sure to show your new drawing to friends and family. We also recommend that you familiarize yourself with other drawing lessons for kids.