Draw Your Own Picnic Printable – Kids Activity

Draw Your Own Picnic – Imagination Drawing Activity for Kids

Bring summertime fun indoors (or outdoors!) with this Draw Your Own Picnic worksheet. This free printable invites children to design their dream picnic by drawing their favorite foods, drinks, and picnic items on a blank blanket space. It’s a low-prep, high-engagement activity that builds creativity, vocabulary, and fine motor skills.

What’s Inside This Worksheet

Inside you’ll find:

• A blank picnic blanket / grid area for drawing picnic items

• A picnic basket illustration to set the scene

• Sample items (sandwich, chips, juice, bowl of salad) at the bottom as inspiration

• A clear instruction: “Draw some Items for your own picnic”

Why It’s Useful for Kids & Educators

• Provides creative freedom — Children choose what to bring and how to arrange their picnic

• Reinforces fine motor control — Drawing shapes, small items, spacing

• Builds vocabulary & food awareness — Use the opportunity to talk about healthy picnic items, naming foods

• Versatile in different settings — Great for classrooms, homeschooling, art centres, rainy day activities

• Minimal prep needed — Simply print and hand out

How to Use It — Step-by-Step Tips

Here’s how you can deploy it most effectively:

1. Print
   Use a standard white sheet or light cardstock for sturdiness.

2. Introduce picnic vocabulary
   Show pictures or real examples of picnic food (sandwich, fruit, juice, salad), utensils, blankets, etc.

3. Brainstorm first
   Ask kids: “What would you bring on a picnic? Drinks? Snacks? Games?”

4. Draw the items
   Let them fill the blanket area with their drawn items, using colored pencils, markers or crayons.

5. Optional extension: cut & paste
   Provide a second sheet of picnic item templates—they color, cut and glue onto the picnic blanket.

6. Share & discuss
   Encourage children to name and explain their choices. Display the drawings.

7. Reuse via lamination / dry erase
   Laminate the blank version so kids can redraw with dry-erase markers each time.

Variation Ideas & Extensions

• Math link: Use counting (“How many sandwiches? 2 drinks?”) or simple fractions (“Half of the blanket has food, half empty”)

• Writing prompt: Ask kids to write a short menu or story about a picnic they would go on

• Themed picnics: Challenge them to draw specific theme picnics (fruit picnic, dessert picnic, healthy picnic)

• Group project: Combine drawings into a giant class picnic mural

• Scavenger twist: After drawing, go on a picnic and try to find real examples of what they drew

This Draw Your Own Picnic worksheet is a fun, flexible way to spark young imaginations and build drawing confidence. Perfect for classrooms, home, or creative time, it encourages kids to think, plan, and visually express their picnic dreams. Use it as a stand-alone activity or pair it with writing prompts or group projects.

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