Little children, especially boys, like to play games and pretend that they are adventurers. They especially like to imagine that they are explorers who discover new lands.
Moms are worried about their children, of course, because children can go far away and if there is a river nearby – they will go there.
You can offer your child to learn how to draw a ship’s wheel to entertain him or her. Let your child imagine him or her to be a captain and let him or her make his or her own control’s element with the help of our instruction.
Basis
The basis of the wheel is a circle of a medium size. Draw it with a help of the compass. Watch your child not to injure himself or herself. If your child does not know how to use a compass, use a round object and circle it.
Volume
Draw a smaller circle inside the figure marking the wheel’s volume.
Marking the center
Mark the wheel’s center with the help of a small circle. The figure should resemble a wheel.
Inner parts of the control levers
Draw the parts of the control lever with the help of the ruler, which are inside the wheel. The lines are intersected in the center.
Draw two more parts to make eight control levers.
Unnecessary lines
Erase the lines of the control levers, which are placed in the center. Try not to mar the circle.
Carving
Ships’ wheels are often decorated with carvings. Draw the carvings on the upper parts of the control levers.
The carvings should be identical.
The details can be very small so help your child if he or she can’t draw something correctly.
Center's parts
Draw another circle in the center.
Upper parts of the control levers
Draw the upper parts of the control levers with carvings. Lines curve towards each other in the center. This allows you to hold the ship’s wheel better.
Draw the control levers next to the each inner side.
Try to make these details look similar.
Center's carving
Decorate the smallest central circle with carving in the form of a star.
Draw a hexagon star and make it voluminous with the help of straight lines that are connected in the center.
Coloring
The ship’s wheel is made of wood, so color it brown. You can color the rest of the details on the control lever as you like.
Color the wheel online. It’s quite an interesting activity.
Choose how you want to paint.
Collage of the stages of the ship's wheel drawing
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