Draw the Treasure Room — Imaginative Drawing Activity for Kids

Let your child’s imagination run wild with this fun drawing prompt: “Draw the treasure room.” With just an open chest as a starting point, kids can build their own fantasy vault filled with jewels, artifacts, secret doors, magical items, and more.

What’s Inside This Printable

• Bold title: “DRAW”

• Subtitle: “the treasure room”

• A black-and-white outline of an open treasure chest

• Plenty of blank space for children to draw their vision of a treasure room

Why This Activity Is Valuable

• Stimulates imagination & creativity — kids can design the room: walls, vault doors, lighting, treasure piles

• Spatial thinking / layout skills — how to place objects in a room, perspective, foreground/background

• Storytelling through visuals — What’s the history of the treasure? Who owns it? How is it protected?

• Adaptable difficulty — younger children draw simpler items, older ones can add shading, detail, trapdoors, hidden compartments

• Low-prep & versatile — easy to use at home, in class, or in art clubs

How to Use the Worksheet — Tips & Steps

1. Print the worksheet (black & white is fine)

2. Introduce the prompt: “Imagine this is the open chest in a grand treasure room. What surroundings will you draw?”

3. Brainstorm ideas with children:

   • Are there piles of gold, jewels, ancient relics?

   • What kind of architecture (stone walls, columns, cave, dungeon)?

   • Any magical items, traps, secret doors, guardians?

   • Lighting: torches, glowing crystals, mysterious aura?

4. Provide drawing materials: pencils, colored pencils, markers, fine liners

5. Let them draw freely — there is no “correct” answer

6. Optionally, after drawing, ask kids to write or share a short backstory:

   • “Whose treasure is this?”

   • “How did it get here?”

   • “How would someone steal it (or protect it)?”

7. Display the artwork (class gallery, slideshow, portfolio)

Extension / Variation Ideas

• Turn into a writing prompt: “Describe a day inside the treasure room.”

• Add constraints: “Draw the treasure room in an underwater cave” or “on another planet”

• Ask children to map a treasure room floor plan first, then draw

• Combine with mystery / adventure themes (e.g. guardians, puzzles)

• Use this prompt in a storytelling / roleplay class