How to Draw a Giant Squid for 8-Year-Olds: A Step-by-Step Guide to Show Its Huge Size

Hi there! Let's learn how to draw a giant squid and make sure to show just how big it is compared to other sea creatures. We'll make a full bleed drawing, which means the squid will fill up the whole page from edge to edge without leaving any white space around.

1. Gather your drawing tools: You will need paper, pencils, an eraser, and color pencils or markers.
2. Understand what a giant squid looks like: It has a long, tube-shaped body, big eyes, and lots of long arms and tentacles with suction cups.
3. Start by drawing the giant squid's body: Draw a long oval shape in the middle of the paper but make parts of it touch or go beyond the edges of the paper to show it's very big.
4. Add the squid’s arms and tentacles: Draw eight arms and two longer tentacles coming out from the front of the body. Make some arms stretch toward the edges of the paper to fill the space fully.
5. Draw details: Add suction cups on the arms with small circles, big round eyes on the head, and a pointed fin on each side of the body.
6. Show the giant squid’s size: To help show how huge the squid is, draw a small ship or a submarine near it, and make it much smaller than the squid.
7. Color your drawing: Use reds, oranges, and browns for the squid. Make the water blue and the small ship gray or white.
8. Final touches: Make sure your squid touches the edges of the paper — this makes it a full bleed illustration and makes the squid look huge.

Great job! Now you have a giant squid that looks massive and fills your paper from edge to edge.