THE HOUR FLOWER

Here is a simple project to keep a child busy for a bit. You only need a piece of paper and a pen, or pencil, or crayon.

Start with a dot and add more dots around it. Then outline the dots.

Outline the outline, shade the space between the outline and then draw raindrops at each dip in the outline.

Continue adding dots and shapes and outlines and shading in some outlines and leaving some empty. I've done hundreds of these doodles to pass the time away and no two are ever the same. Here's where creativity takes over.

Keep working toward the edge of the paper. Think light and dark and contrast with both shading and shapes and types of outlines.

Once you've gotten to a point where you can make your doodle into a flower, simply draw a stem with some leaves and you have a finished drawing. It can now be colored if you want or left as is.

Here are some other doodles I've done. Hopefully, it'll give you some ideas.