Creative Activities · Mixed
Drawing prompts and a comic strip planner
Drawing prompts spark ideas; comic strips add storytelling. Both build observation, planning and visual communication.
- Ages
- 5–14 (rough guide)
- Level
- Mixed
- Subject
- Creative Activities
- Time
- 20–40 minutes
- Format
- Printable
- 1Learn it
- 2See it worked
- 3Try it online
- 4Print it
- 5Check your answer
Before you start
Who it's for and what to know first
- Sketch lightly first, then go over lines you want to keep.
- Comic strips: four panels — set-up, build-up, twist, punchline or ending.
- Speech bubbles for talking, thought bubbles (cloud shapes) for thinking, and captions (boxes) for the narrator.
- Vary the view: a close-up for emotions, a wide shot to show the setting.
- Print isometric or dot grid paper for design and 3D-style drawings.
Worked example 1
Plan a 4-panel comic: ‘A robot learns to bake.’
- 1: Robot reads a recipe.
- 2: Flour everywhere.
- 3: Oven smokes — robot panics.
- 4: Robot proudly holds a perfect cake… labelled ‘bought from shop’.
Answer: Set-up, build-up, twist, punchline.
Print it
Activity prompts
Choose a prompt and draw it, or plan it as a four-panel comic.
- Design a house for a family of snails.Open-ended — label three features.
- Draw your favourite food as a superhero.Open-ended — give it a costume and a power.
- A dragon who is afraid of the dark.Open-ended — try a four-panel comic.
- Draw your street 100 years from now.Open-ended — include one invention.
- Invent a new animal by combining two real ones.Open-ended — name it and label its body parts.
Mixed · ages 5–14
Drawing prompts and comics
NameDate
Choose a prompt and draw it, or plan it as a four-panel comic.
- 1.Design a house for a family of snails.
- 2.Draw your favourite food as a superhero.
- 3.A dragon who is afraid of the dark.
- 4.Draw your street 100 years from now.
- 5.Invent a new animal by combining two real ones.
Choose a prompt and draw it, or plan it as a four-panel comic.
- 1.Design a house for a family of snails.Open-ended — label three features.
- 2.Draw your favourite food as a superhero.Open-ended — give it a costume and a power.
- 3.A dragon who is afraid of the dark.Open-ended — try a four-panel comic.
- 4.Draw your street 100 years from now.Open-ended — include one invention.
- 5.Invent a new animal by combining two real ones.Open-ended — name it and label its body parts.
- Pressing hard with the first lines — sketch light.
- Worrying about a perfect drawing. Quick sketches build ideas and confidence faster.
Last reviewed: 25 September 2026
