Easy How to Draw a Fire Truck Tutorial and Fire Truck Coloring Page

Here's how to draw a fire truck that is not overly simple, but not unnecessarily complicated either. My step by step tutorial will show you how.

Fire Truck Drawing

A little research showed that fire trucks almost always come in their familiar bright red color, but there is no one standard shape. It seems the ladder size and placement often varies, probably because they all specialize in different tasks.

I hope this tutorial helps a few young artists with firefighter ambitions, or maybe those that are studying Safety Week themes. It will break down the steps of how to start and finish a fire truck, and add a simple skyline in the backgroud too.

Use the Button below to download a PDF Tutorial

Fire Truck Coloring Page

Materials for Fire Truck Drawing

  • Pencil. The Ticonderoga brand are the most reliable, make nice dark lines when you need them, and are the easiest to erase. Buying the pre-sharpened ones will save busy teachers a lot of time.
  • Eraser. Large ones you can hold in your hand do a much better job than just the pencil tip erasers, especially when erasing leftover pencil lines after tracing.
  • Black Sharpie Marker. These fine point permanent marker pens make nice black outlines, have a good tip for coloring, and never bleed when they get wet. Use them with good ventilation and add extra paper underneath to protect your tables.
  • Prang Crayons. These are a bit softer than other crayons so they sometimes look like oil pastels. They also have a some nice brown shades that Crayola does not have unless you buy their larger boxes.
  • Crayola Crayons. The reliable brand that always works well. The 24 pack has some of my favorite golden orange and yellow colors that seem a bit richer and warmer than the ones Prang has.

Directions to Draw Fire Truck Step by Step

Time needed:45 minutes.

How to Draw a Fire Truck

  1. Draw a rectangle for the back of the truck.

  2. Add the front cab.

  3. Draw two wheels with hubcaps.

  4. Add wheel rims and cab windows and lights.

  5. Draw the front cab bumper, light and details.

  6. Add a ladder attached to the back.

  7. Draw the extra details to the back.

  8. Add a road, skyline and clouds.

  9. Trace with a marker and color.

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