If you love all things tiny and adorable, learning how to draw a charming hamster is the perfect creative adventure! With their chubby cheeks, little paws, and big sparkly eyes, hamsters make the cutest subjects for a fun and easy drawing project.
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3 Fun Activities with Your Charming Hamster Drawing🐹
Whether your hamster is holding a snack, peeking out of a cozy home, or just looking extra fluffy, this step-by-step guide will help you bring your new furry friend to life on paper. However, once completed, the following fun activities can turn your cute hamster into a craft!
Make a cute hamster greeting card 💌
- Fold a piece of cardstock or construction paper in half.
- Redraw or glue your hamster drawing on the front of the card.
- Add a sweet message inside like “You’re Pawsome!” or “Have a Ham-tastic Day!”
- Give it to a friend or family member to brighten their day.
Create a hamster bookmark 📚
- Resize or redraw your hamster on a small rectangular piece of paper.
- Decorate it with fun colors, patterns, or speech bubbles with cute sayings.
- Laminate it or cover it with clear tape to make it sturdy.
- Use your handmade bookmark in your favorite book!
Design a hamster storybook 📖
- Draw different hamster poses on separate pages—eating, playing, sleeping, etc.
- Write a short, fun sentence on each page to tell a story.
- Staple the pages together to create your very own hamster picture book.
- Share your story with friends, family, or even read it aloud for fun!
So grab your pencil, get comfy, and get ready to draw the most lovable little critter ever!
The step-by-step instructions and many of the drawing ideas on Cute Things to Draw include dashed lines running through the center of the page, both horizontally and vertically. By drawing their own center lines on blank paper before starting, learning artists have helpful guides to follow as they draw.
Getting the right size and placement of lines on the page provides visual reference points that help improve accuracy. To create these guides on their own page, students can simply fold their paper in half both vertically and horizontally, slight crease it, then unfold. The best part is that once the drawing is finished and colored, the creases will no longer be noticeable.
Let’s draw a cute and charming hamster!
Start by drawing a round shape for the hamster’s head and a larger oval underneath for the body.
Add two small ears on top of the head and a cute face with big eyes, a tiny nose, and a smiling mouth.
Draw short arms holding a little snack, like a sunflower seed, and add small feet at the bottom.
Finally, give your hamster some furry details, whiskers, and color it in with soft browns, grays, or any color you like!
Your hamster after you draw and color it
Step-by-step overview
Step 1: Draw the head
Step 2: Draw the body
Step 3: Draw the cheeks and ear
Step 4: Add the facial features
Step 5: Draw the bowtie
Step 6: Draw the tophat and arm
Step 7: Add the cane and other arm
Step 8: Draw the whiskers and hands onto your hamster
The completed charming hamster drawing!
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