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Lets make a picture of a red nosed reindeer!
You can email it to someone special using ArtBug!

You will need:
1. a piece of white paper and a pencil.
2. paint (brown, white, red, black, blue), a brush and a tissue.
3. you may also like to cut the words out of an old Christmas card.
4. a glue stick and safety scissors also.

Use your pencil to draw a blob for Rudolf's body and a smaller blob for his head.

Draw Rudolf a neck and some antlers like this.

Draw a front leg and a blob for the top of Rudolf's back leg.

Draw a small tail for Rudolf.
Draw the rest of Rudolf's back leg.
Draw Rudolf's other front leg and back leg.

Using brown paint and a small, neat paint brush, fill Rudolf.
I mixed some white paint into my brown paint for Rudolf's antlers.
I used the other end of my paint brush to draw lines in the paint at the tops of Rudolf's legs and at Rudolf's tail.

Wipe your brush clean with the tissue or wash it.
Use the blue paint to make a blue sky around Rudolf.
I use a small brush to paint around Rudolf first and then fill in the rest with a larger brush.

Use red paint for Rudolf's nose and black for Rudolf's eye.
Remember to clean your paint brush between colors.

Let the paint dry.
If you want to put Christmas words on your painting, cut the words out and stick them on.
Scan your picture in to ArtBug Mail.
You can use the felt-tip to put white stars and a moon on your picture.
I used the felt tip and a small circle to give my Rudolf a brighter nose too.
Now you're all done.
Choose someone special to send your picture too and click send.
Your picture will also be in your own online art gallery now!

Ho, ho, ho! Now Rudolf the Red Nosed Reindeer can fly off to help Santa! Well done!

For more tutorials like this go to ArtBug Mail's art tutorials