[Graduation from Preschool] Messages with Hand-Drawn Illustrations! A Collection of Ideas to Share with Children
At this special milestone of graduation from kindergarten, many of you may be thinking about giving a message card with a hand-drawn illustration.
From spring-like motifs such as tulips, cherry blossoms, and clovers to unique ideas like turning party poppers or lettering into illustrations, here are some tips for creating a heartfelt card.
These ideas can all be drawn with familiar tools like ballpoint pens, colored pencils, and dot markers, so try making an original illustration filled with your feelings for your child!
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[Graduation from Kindergarten] Heartfelt Messages with Hand-Drawn Illustrations! Idea Collection for Kids (1–10)
Bouquet Drawn in Pastels
Beautiful soft textures! Here are ideas for creating bouquet art with pastels.
Prepare white cardstock or message cards, scissors, a craft knife, masking tape, a pencil, an eraser, pastels, mesh, cotton, and cotton swabs.
First, sketch motifs like the wrapping paper for the bouquet, ribbons, and stars on the cardstock and cut them out.
Next, use powdered pastels with your stencils and a piece of cotton to blend the color onto the message card.
As you work, using an eraser and masking tape will help you achieve a clean finish.
Finally, balance the design with motifs like stars, and you’re done! It looks like a painting—such a charming idea.
Clover drawn with colored pencils
Beautiful gradients! Here are some ideas for drawing clovers with colored pencils.
What you’ll need: white cardstock or a message card, and four green colored pencils.
How about drawing a four-leaf clover—considered a symbol of good luck—using a beautiful colored pencil gradient? By layering colors to express the contrast between the edges and the center, you can create a natural, gentle look.
There are many ways to customize it too, so give it a try!
Cherry blossoms drawn with markers
Here’s an idea for drawing cherry blossoms with markers.
You’ll need white cardstock or a message card, a black marker, and colored pencils.
Cherry blossoms are beautiful with their five petals, but many people find it hard to draw them in good balance.
With this idea, it should be easier to adjust the balance of the petals.
After sketching the lines with a black marker, color them in with colored pencils for a soft, gentle look—highly recommended.
Give it a try!
[Graduation from Kindergarten] Messages to Give with Hand-Drawn Illustrations! A Collection of Ideas for Kids (11–20)
Balloons and a Girl
We’ll introduce an illustration of a girl with balloons, along with coloring ideas! All you need is the illustration and colored pencils.
Maybe you want to send a hand-drawn illustration to children taking flight into the future, but you’re struggling to come up with ideas.
Many people have positive associations with balloons! This illustration of a girl holding colorful balloons gives a lively, bright impression.
It’s also lovely to use colored pencils to express subtle nuances.
Give it a try!
Graduation corsage (for preschool/kindergarten)
Large corsages adorning the chests of children at their graduation ceremony.
Illustrations of corsages, a motif that symbolizes celebration, are perfect for kindergarten graduation albums and congratulatory message cards.
We recommend writing messages from teachers to the graduating children, or words of congratulations from parents, on the ribbon part beneath the flowers.
Why not infuse your congratulations into an illustrated corsage and gently add it to an album or message card?
Motif of a graduation certificate (for kindergarten/preschool)
One recommended option is an illustration of a graduation certificate, one of the items that symbolizes graduation from kindergarten.
If you include a certificate illustration in your newsletter, it can remind people that graduation is approaching.
You could also use the illustration to create wall decorations, which could serve as decor for the graduation ceremony venue as well.
Illustrations of graduation certificates come in two types: rolled up in a tube and opened.
With an illustration of an opened certificate, you can even add a message celebrating the graduation.
Roses painted with wet-on-wet (bleeding) technique
Let’s try using brush pens! Here are some ideas for painting roses with a bleeding watercolor effect.
What you’ll need: white thick paper or a message card, an oil-based pen, water, a red brush pen, pink and orange brush pens, a green brush pen, and water.
Some people might think illustrations done with brush pens are difficult, but this idea is recommended because you can simply add color using water and colored brush pens! Drawing roses like a spiral feels fresh and fun, too.
Give it a try!