How to Draw a Plant Cell

1. Begin the plant cell outline by drawing a wavy rectangle. Plant cells are usually rectangular because they have a rigid cell wall.

2. Draw another wavy rectangle inside the first. This is the cell membrane.

3. Draw a circle within a circle inside the cell. These are the nucleus and the nucleolus.

4. Draw a large, irregular peanut shape. This is a vacuole. Alongside it, draw two ovals and band them with parallel lines. These are the chloroplasts.

5. Use wavy lines to enclose a number of squiggly parallel lines below the vacuole.

Then, use curved lines to draw interlocking zigzag shapes curled around one side of the nucleus. Enclose small circles around each.

The first organelle is the Golgi apparatus, and the second is the endoplasmic reticulum.

6. Draw three small circles within circles in the cytoplasm. Then, draw three successively smaller circles inside the vacuole. The former are peroxisomes, while the latter is a druse crystal.

7. Draw two irregular oval shapes in the cytoplasm. Draw a wavy line down the center of each, forming the mitochondria.

Then draw a spiral line that ends by meeting itself, forming a circle. This is the amyloplast. Finally, enclose two thick, straight lines with rounded ends inside the vacuole. These are raphide crystals.

8. Begin labeling the organelles and other parts of the cell. Beginning with the chloroplast and moving clockwise, label the raphide crystal, amyloplast, cytoplasm, nucleolus, mitochondrion, and nucleus.

Draw a straight line from each vocabulary term to the cell part it describes.

9. Continue labeling the parts of the cell, moving clockwise. Label the endoplasmic reticulum, peroxisome, cell membrane, cell wall, ribosomes, druse crystal, vacuole, and Golgi apparatus.

Your cartoon plant cell outline is now complete. Color your diagram. Make sure you make each of the organelles a different color so that you can easily tell them apart.

The chloroplasts, of course, should be green, because they are filled with green chlorophyll.