Home › How to draw › Turtle

How to draw a turtle

Start with the head, the legs and the tail and finish with the smile and the shine in the eyes.

Finished, it has 9 areas to color: 9th of 50 here, counting from the simplest (one of the easiest). Close to it: pig and snowman.

Main colors in the original emoji: yellow green and dark green.

The six steps

1. The head, the legs and the tail.
2. The shell.
3. The pattern on the shell.
4. One eye.
5. The other eye.
6. The smile and the shine in the eyes.

Print the sheets

How to draw a turtle: 6 steps

6 shapes over six steps, then a box to draw your own.

Print this sheetSave PNG

How to draw a turtle: 4 big steps

Steps of 1, 1, 2 and 2 shapes, drawn bigger.

Print this sheetSave PNG

Turtle to color

The finished drawing: 9 areas.

Print this sheetSave PNG

Color and trace: turtle

Color it, then trace the word.

Print this sheetSave PNG

New parts are black and what is already drawn is gray; how the sheets work. Draw something else: unicorn, whale, airplane, apple, bee, birthday cake, bus, car, castle, cat, cat face, cow.

Drawings adapted from Noto Emoji by Google, Apache License 2.0: turned into outlines, and checked so every area can be colored.