How to draw a house - a free house drawing guide

What can we use if we don't have the recommended paper or colouring materials?

If you don't have drawing paper or coloured pencils, use a sheet of printer paper placed landscape (or a flattened cereal-box cardboard) and colour with crayons, markers, or watercolour paints after lightly sketching the square, door, roof and windows with a pencil so you can erase guide lines.

My side wall or side roof doesn't look right — how can we fix the slanted lines and diagonal?

If the two slanted lines for the side wall don't match or the diagonal from the roof tip doesn't meet the top slanted end, lightly mark the same outward distance on the top and bottom right corners with a ruler or your finger, draw both slanted lines to that mark, connect their ends with a straight line, then draw the diagonal from the roof tip and erase the guide marks.

How can I adapt this drawing for different ages?

For younger children, pre-draw the central square, front roof triangle and door so they can add windows, panes and colour, while older kids can extend the side wall for stronger perspective, add roof tiles, chimney bricks and background details before labelling and sharing on DIY.org.

How can we make the finished house more creative or advanced?

Enhance the project by adding a garden, pathway, textured roof tiles and window shutters, using coloured paper or stickers for 3D details, shading with pencils or markers, labelling parts with arrows as instructed, and photographing the final piece to post on DIY.org.