5 Minute Drawing

Ready to draw something spooky?

Every drawing in this book starts with a shape you can already draw. An oval becomes a ghost. A triangle becomes a witch hat. Two circles become a spider. Four easy steps later, you have drawn something you will want to show someone.

40 spooky friends to draw, one at a time

Start with candy corn, a bone, a ghost and a black cat. Move up to a cauldron, a mummy, a little vampire and a coffin. Then take on the big ones: a skeleton, a haunted house, a werewolf, a witch on a broom, a ghost pirate ship and a whole graveyard.

Every drawing works the same four ways

• START — see the shapes. Circles, ovals and simple curves.


• BUILD — add the big parts. Hats, wings, arms and towers.


• DETAIL — make it recognizable. Faces, stitches, cracks and spooky details.


• FINISH — erase your guide lines and clean it up.

Because the steps never change, the drawings can get harder without ever getting confusing.

Made for kids who think they cannot draw

Your lines can wiggle. Your monsters can be silly. Your drawings can look nothing like the examples. Every drawing counts. There is no wrong way to finish a page in this book.

What is inside

• 40 step-by-step Halloween drawings, arranged easy to hard


• Big 8.5 x 11 inch pages with room to draw right in the book


• 12 challenge pages that mix what you have learned


• Free-draw space for your own spooky ideas


• A certificate for the back when you finish

Perfect for October afternoons, classroom free time, party activities, screen-free quiet time and rainy days. Kids ages 6 to 12. No art experience needed — just a pencil and five minutes.

Part of the 5-Minute Drawing series, alongside Cute Animals, Fantasy Creatures, Cute Food, Manga Chibi and Fall & Autumn.

Grab a pencil. The ghosts are waiting.