How to Draw a Birthday Cake for Kids – Fun Step-by-Step Drawing Guide
Feb 06, 2026
Let’s celebrate with art as kids learn how to draw a birthday cake using easy picture steps and fun shapes.
Step 1: Draw a semicircle horizontally on your paper, as shown in the image, to begin your cake drawing.
Step 2: Start drawing a wavy line just below the semicircle you have drawn now.
Step 3: Continue drawing the wavy line to the left, as shown in the image.
Step 4: Draw the lower layer of the cake with two straight lines on the sides and a curved line connecting them.
Step 5: Now, draw two small vertical lines and a wavy line connecting them above the first layer you drew.
Step 6: Add another layer of wavy lines and a curved line on top of the lines you have drawn now. Leave a small space in the middle of that curved line.
Step 7: Again, draw a curved line in the front portion of the layer of cake you have just drawn, as shown in the image.
Step 8: Now draw two vertical lines, parallel to each other, connected by small curved lines at the top of your cake for the candle, in the space left between the curved lines.
Step 9: Add some lines inside the parallel lines you have just drawn.
Step 10: Now add a small flame on top of your candle.
Step 11: Draw three small circles inside each layer of the cake, as shown in the image.
Step 12: Your yummy birthday cake is ready! Are you ready to cut the cake? Color your cake drawing, then serve it.
How to Draw Birthday Cakes – Start Your Drawing Journey Simply with Monkey Pen!
Birthday cakes are a blast to draw, so let your imagination go wild. You can draw a big cake, a small cake, a round cake, a tall cake, a cake with sprinkles, a cake with candles, and just about any cake you can think of! You may have seen birthday cake drawing tutorials on different social media platforms, and you can try drawing with the same ideas; it will be just as fun with Monkey Pen's how-to-draw videos and step-by-step illustrations.
These drawing tutorials are aimed mainly at kids and parents, with no big rules and no confusing art terms, just a fun, simple drawing video to encourage you to draw and maybe even inspire you to post your own videos! Now let's start drawing!
Why Drawing Cakes is Fun!
There are a lot of reasons why drawing a cake is even more fun than eating it! The first reason is that cakes are made of simple shapes, which is the best part about cake; they are made of shapes we can all recognise! Most cakes are made of rectangles, rounded rectangles, and sometimes perfect circles. Once you get the hang of drawing the main shapes of a cake, you can use colours to decorate it and make it your own, just like following how to draw a donut for kids.
- Did you know that in real life, the largest birthday cake ever made was taller than a house? Imagine trying to draw something that big on a piece of paper!
Start with the big essential pieces of the cake, rather than the tiny details.
When George makes videos that show how to draw a birthday cake easily, he doesn't start with tiny sprinkles and candles. Instead, he begins with big chunks of the cake.
Think of your birthday cake like a 4-piece building block set.
- First, the base,
- Then the layers,
- Then the top,
- Then the decorations.
This is often called step by step drawing because you add one part at a time. It is a good method to use because kids learn better when drawings grow slowly on the page rather than showing multiple things at once.
If you want, you can first practise on a printable worksheet. Then you can record your drawing as a video.
Cakes Can Have Faces Too!
Adding faces to cakes in your drawings is something that a lot of drawing blogs forget to tell you! Try drawing a birthday cake and give it little eyes, a smile, and a party hat to make it cute. Now, instead of just being food, your cake is a character! This really works well in videos because kids love characters so much more than inanimate objects. A cake with a face is so much happier and more inviting.
- Fun fact! A lot of cartoonists and animators stick faces onto inanimate objects because we are hardwired to react more to faces than we are to just shapes!
Make Your Drawing Video More Fun, Not Just Correct
When you are making a drawing video, you don't have to be perfect. You just have to make it clear and keep it fun.
- Here are some suggestions:
- Show the final cake first
- Draw it from start to finish
- Take your time and pause after each drawing.
- Add your colours last
Celebrate when you're done!
All kids learn better when the voice sounds happy and relaxed. Make sure your voice stays fun and happy. At Monkey Pen, you can watch step-by-step drawing videos and download drawing tutorials as high-quality PDFs and learn simply to sketch a pirate.
Don't Stop After One Cake Drawing
After you draw one cake, you can draw... another cake! You can try different cake shapes and cake styles!
Draw a:
- small cupcake cake
- big party cake
- square birthday cake
- rainbow birthday cake
- chocolate drip birthday cake
Older kids can try drawing a 3D birthday cake by adding side edges and shadows to make it pop out of the page. Younger kids can just draw a flat cake and colour it with whatever colours they want. Guess what? Both are great! There's no age rule for art.
Worksheets Help You Get Better
Worksheets are like playgrounds for drawing! Parents print them so kids can draw the same thing the creator is drawing, and they can pause it to go at their own speed. Worksheets help you for so many reasons.
- You can draw at your speed.
- You can go back and repeat the steps that are challenging for you.
- You can color later.
- You can look at the thing to draw.
- You can check to see how good you are at drawing compared to the worksheet.
One drawing tutorial helps children to take their own time and pace in making their own art.
Celebrate Your Big Day Cake Drawings
It is always more fun to draw a birthday cake with someone. You can ask your siblings or parents to pull with you. Each might bring something different to the cake. You might put a shabby-looking decoration on your cake. You might draw "the best birthday cake ever" with lots of cool decorations. Each cake you draw will be special, and you can make the activity even more exciting with birthday party coloring pages.
It's a Draw Cake Party
When drawing birthday cakes, there are no significant rules for what the cake should look like. A birthday cake can be fun, crazy, or colourful. If you want to set up a video recording to share what you draw, feel free to do so. When you finish the drawing, your cake will tell a happy story with every colourful, fun line. We have more drawing ideas and worksheets. Celebrate your creativity!! Draw your next big masterpiece; maybe it will be a birthday cake!!
