This is a good idea starter for marker pens or crayons. Draw a simple shape and color it with a solid color. Then carefully outline it, again and again, so the shape grows and grows to fill the whole paper. Use different colors to draw these rings, if you want. Or use regular black to draw the lines, then color in the rings like the dolphin picture below.
Supply your drawing center with
- colorful crayons or markers
- heavy white paper
A few echo line idea prompts:
- Cut basic geometric shapes out of colored paper…like three triangles of different size. Glue these shapers onto a sheet of white drawing paper, then begin making the repeated outlines around them. One outline around each triangle. Grab a new color, then a second outline around each one. Keep going. What will you do when the outlines begin to run into each other?
- Waves are fun. Draw a swooping, wiggling line starting at the top corner of a drawing paper and ending at the opposite bottom corner. Now draw the echo lines on either side of your first line. And again and again. Fill the paper with colorful repeating lines. If you use different colors of blue and green, this ends up looking like waves in the water.
- Write your initials in the middle of a drawing paper…the starting letter of your first name and the starting letter of your last name. Or maybe you have three names or more. Just write the first letters of each part. Write them kind of big, maybe 3 or 4 inches tall. Now carefully draw repeating outlines around the letters. The first outline makes them skinny block letters. A few more outlines makes them fat block letters. When the outlines begin to touch, just keep making outlines around the two letters together…on and on until outlines fill the paper.