How to draw a grasshopper - a free grasshopper drawing guide

I don't have a fine tip pen or colored pencils—what can I use instead?

Use a sharpened pencil or a thin marker to trace your best outline in place of the fine tip pen, and swap crayons, colored markers, or watercolor paints for the greens, browns, and yellows when colouring.

My grasshopper's hind leg looks wrong—how can I fix it?

If the hind leg is too short or stiff, lightly erase and redraw the thick upper thigh as a rounded shape and then add the long lower segment bent like a jumping leg (step 'Draw the large hind legs...') so you can adjust the bend before darkening the line.

How can I change this activity for younger or older kids?

For younger children simplify by drawing basic ovals for the thorax and head, bold jointed lines for legs, and colouring with crayons, while older kids can add the tiny texture lines across the abdomen, detailed antennae, fine-tip inking, and darker shading under the belly and legs.

How can we extend or personalize the drawing after finishing it?

Add a background of grass or flowers, decorate the abdomen with patterns or glued-on paper wings, increase contrast with darker shading under the belly and legs, and then photograph the finished grasshopper to share on DIY.org.