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How to Draw Pin the Tail on the Donkey

If you can draw a heart, rectangle, triangle, teardrop and an oblong circle, you can draw a donkey for the Pin the Tail on the Donkey game. These six shapes are the basis for the entire donkey's body. Don't worry about making the shapes precise. A few crooked lines will give your donkey personality. Practice drawing the donkey on scrap paper with pencil until you are happy with it, then draw the donkey on a large piece of brown or gray poster board with magic marker for the game. Draw enough tails for everyone who will be playing.

Things You'll Need

Scrap paper
Pencil
Poster board
Magic marker

Instructions

- 1
  Make the donkey's rump by drawing the top half of a heart. Start at the center of the heart and swoop up and out. Stop before you would normally begin making your lines go down to a point for a full heart.
- 2
  Draw legs for the donkey by making rough, rectangular shapes beginning at the sides where the heart section ends. The rectangles should be uneven so the donkey's legs are wider at the top and become more narrow near the bottom. Do not draw lines at the top of the rectangles. Make the lines a little wavy to represent thigh muscles and bumpy knee joints. Draw vertical lines near the bottom of the legs to make hooves.
- 3
  Draw an oblong circle for the donkey's head at the upper left of the heart. Tilt it slightly so that only the bottom of the shape touches the heart. Leave the part of the circle next to the donkey's rump open. Connect the top of the head to the rump with a short line for the neck.
- 4
  Draw vertical, oblong-shaped eyes at about the middle of the head. Fill in. Draw a downward curve at the bottom of the head to make a muzzle.
- 5
  Draw two tall triangles for the donkey's ears. Leave the bottoms of the triangles open. Make two smaller triangles inside the ears. Scribble a tuft of hair for mane between the ears.
- 6
  Make multiple donkey tails on a separate piece of paper by drawing long, narrow rectangles with an upside-down teardrop shape at the end. Draw some vertical lines inside the teardrop to look like fringes. The tails will be cut out and given to each player.

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