About This Video

In this guided activity video, JD leads participants through creating landscape drawings using colored markers and repeated line work.

The activity begins with a simple outdoor landscape made from hills, a tree, and a sun. JD shows how to use repeated curved lines to fill the sky and hills with color. He then creates a second landscape with a barn, pond, field, and more varied line patterns.

Participants practice using lines, color, direction, repetition, and pattern to build a finished picture. JD encourages experimentation throughout the activity, reminding participants that the goal is not perfection. The goal is to have fun, try new things, and see what happens with color and line.

This video gives participants a relaxed, step-by-step art activity focused on drawing, pattern-making, marker use, creative choice, and pride in finished work.

Supplies Needed

• Paper

• Black marker

• Colored markers

• Extra paper underneath to protect the table, especially if markers may bleed through

• Art binder

• Three-hole punch, if adding the finished artwork to a binder

Good For

• Adults with IDD who enjoy drawing, coloring, landscapes, patterns, markers, nature scenes, or creative art activities.

• Caregivers looking for a guided art activity with clear steps, flexible choices, and repeatable drawing practice.

• Adult day programs, home routines, or group activities about art, creativity, fine motor practice, following directions, pattern-making, and self-expression.

• Participants who benefit from calm pacing, visual modeling, encouragement, repetition, and permission to experiment without needing the artwork to be perfect.

How to Use This Video

Use this video as a guided drawing and coloring activity for a home routine, day program, small group, or independent creative time with support nearby.

Caregivers can gather the supplies ahead of time and help participants set up their paper, black marker, colored markers, and table protection. Because JD creates two landscape examples, participants can follow the whole video, choose one version, pause between steps, or repeat the activity later with different colors and patterns.

The landscapes do not need to match JD’s exactly. Participants can change the colors, add different outdoor details, create more hills, draw a different tree, or use their own line patterns to fill the space.

Because this activity involves markers and optional hole punching, caregivers can provide support with setup, protecting the table, staying oriented on the page, using a three-hole punch, watching fingers near binder rings, or adding the finished artwork to an art binder.

At the end, participants are encouraged to sign their artwork, save it in their binder, and revisit the activity later as a calming, repeatable line drawing exercise.