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Based on a video by Art for Kids Hub.
This cute cookie drawing comes from Art for Kids Hub, where a dad and his daughter draw side by side. You draw a chocolate chip cookie with a happy face, and next to it a tall glass of milk with a face of its own. They look like best friends. The whole thing takes about six minutes, and every shape is one a young kid can manage.
You need a black marker, a sheet of paper and colored pencils or markers for the finish.
A smooth circle reads as a ball or a plate. A bumpy edge reads as a cookie right away, because real cookies crack and spread in the oven. That is the main trick here. Wobbly lines are welcome. The chocolate chips do the rest. Small, uneven shapes look like chips. Round dots look like sprinkles or spots.
The glass of milk is there to give the cookie a partner, and it teaches one useful drawing idea: a curve at the bottom and an oval at the top turn two straight lines into a 3D cup.
Plain printer paper works for practice. For a finished picture, a heavier drawing pad stops marker ink from bleeding through. A fine point black permanent marker gives the bold outline you see in the video. Kids who are nervous about mistakes can sketch in pencil first and trace over it.
The video colors with colored pencils. Brown for the cookie, darker brown for the chips, pink for the bow and cheeks, and light blue along the edges of the glass so the milk stays white in the middle.
Size matters more than supplies. Let the glass and the cookie fill most of the page. Big shapes leave room for the faces and are much easier for small hands to color without going over the lines.
This drawing doubles as a Christmas Eve plate for Santa. Have your kid draw it on folded cardstock as a note that sits next to the real cookies, or add a plate under the pair and write a message to Santa above it. Pair it with a Santa drawing or a gingerbread man for a full holiday set. If you want to bake the real thing, a basic sugar cookie recipe is an easy match.
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Leave room on the right side of your page for the cookie. On the left, draw two lines going down. They start apart at the top and get closer near the bottom. Make them tall. The glass in the video is a tall glass of milk, and a big glass is easier to fit a face on later. Try to make both lines the same length.
Tip
Draw the left line, then look at it while you draw the right one. Matching is easier when you can see the first line.
Connect the bottoms of your two lines with a curve that dips down and comes back up. Then go to the top. Start at one line, draw a curve over to the other line, and keep going back around to where you started. That makes an oval. It is a little tricky. Once the oval is on, the cup looks 3D.
Tip
Turn your paper sideways while you draw the oval. Your hand curves more easily that way.
Draw two more lines right inside the sides of the glass. Stop them below the rim, because the milk does not go all the way to the top. Add a curve along the bottom that follows the first one. Then connect the two inside lines across the top with a wavy line: down, up, down, up. That wavy line is the milk.
Tip
Keep the inside lines close to the outside lines. A thin gap reads as the glass wall.
Next to the glass, draw a circle. Do not make it smooth. Let the line wobble and bump as it goes around, so it looks like the edge of a real cookie. Make it big. Big cookies are better than small cookies, and you need space for a face and chocolate chips. It can overlap the side of the glass a little.
Tip
Small bumps look like a cookie. Huge bumps start to look like a cloud.
Give each one a face. Draw two big circles on the milk glass and two big circles on the cookie. Inside the top of each eye, add a smaller circle. Then draw an even smaller circle near the bottom left of each eye. Those little circles are the shine that makes the faces look cute. Pause the video if you need more time.
Tip
Place the eyes a little low on the cookie. Faces look cuter with a big forehead.
Fill each eye in with black marker. Go around the small circles and leave them white. This is the step that brings the faces to life, so take your time. Color slowly near the highlights. If you color over one by accident, it is fine. Draw a new small circle with a white gel pen or leave it as is.
Tip
Use the marker tip on its side to fill big areas faster.
Give the milk a sideways smile: a curve, a small line up at one end and a cheek line at the other. Add little eyebrows above its eyes. The daughter gives hers a curly milk mustache too. On the cookie, draw tiny eyelashes on the outside of each eye, then a small cute mouth. Your faces can look different from the video.
Tip
Eyelashes are short flicks. Three on each eye is plenty.
Draw a few small circles near the top of the milk. They look like bubbles and make the milk look freshly poured. Then move to the cookie. Draw small, uneven shapes all over it for the chocolate chips. Keep them away from the eyes and mouth so the face stays easy to see.
Tip
Mix chip sizes and shapes. Uneven chips look more like real chocolate.
On top of the cookie, draw a small box for the knot of the bow. From one side, draw a diagonal line up and then curve it back down to the knot. Do the same on the other side. Add a short line inside each loop so the bow looks 3D. The bow is optional, but it gives the cookie a lot of personality.
Tip
Put the bow a little off center. It looks more playful that way.
Now add color. The video uses colored pencils. Color the cookie light brown and press harder for the chocolate chips. Make the bow pink and add pink cheeks to both faces. For the milk, color light blue along the edges of the glass and leave the middle white. That little bit of blue makes the glass look shiny and round.
Tip
Color the cookie in small circles instead of straight strokes. It looks more like baked dough.
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