Animal Clip Art

If you haven't visited PicMonkey, you're in for a treat!  It is a user-friendly and fun photo editing site!  I love it so much that I used it to create the new design for the blog--even the background.

Lydia Grace saw my little bird and asked, "What else can you make, mommy?"  Eli quietly questioned, "Turtle?"  And so a little game began of them asking for an animal and me using PicMonkey to "draw" it.  Here are some of the animals we made...

Bird

1. Start with a empty background by choosing any photo to edit and dragging an overlay across it.  I turned my overlay white.  You'll find all of the overlays under the left sidebar button that has the three shapes on it.

2. The body of the bird was made from a teardrop overlay found under the Symbols tab.

3. A second teardrop was used for the wing.  I made the wing darker by clicking on the desired color in the editing box that appears when you click on the overlay.  When you select an overlay by clicking on it, you can also resize or rotate it as needed.  Add a circle for the eye and a triangle for the beak.

4. The legs were made by adding a text box and typing two lowercase l's with a few spaces between them.  Simply click on the text box to move it where you need it.

Lion

1. Start with your blank background again.  Add a flower and cover the stem with an overlay that is the same color as the background.  I found this flower under Overlays and Graphic Blooms.

2. Three circles (1 large circle and 2 small circles) all colored the same were used for the face.  (Think of Mickey Mouse.  Oh...there's another clip art idea that you could create.)

3. To finish off the ears, I added two small circles that were the same color as the mane and covered up half of each circle with square overlays that were the same color as the face.  Tip: As you are layering the different pieces, sometimes you may need other options like "Bring to Front"   which can be found by right clicking on the overlay.

4. To make the mouth of the lion, I added a text box, typed an uppercase B, turned the letter sideways, and covered up the straight part of the B with an small square overlay that I color matched with the face.  The eyes and nose were made with circles and a triangle.  Add some fun text and you're done!

And here is Eli's

Turtle

1. Start with a blank background again.  Add a green circle overlay.

2. The bottom half of the circle was covered up with a rectangular overlay the same color as the background.  I added lighter green pentagons to give the shell some added detail.  A tear drop was used for the head.  The legs were made from the rounded rectangular overlays available on PicMonkey.  Two circles and a sideways C became the eyes and mouth.  Add your text and you are done!

There are so many things you could do with these clip art animals...

Cute cards

Graphics for your blog

Wall art for a child's room

The sky's the limit!
Happy clipping and creating!