Step 1: First, draw a long wavy line for the top of the body.
Step 2: Add a second, long wavy line for the bottom of the body, nearly connecting the two lines.
Step 3: Draw the first antennae.
Step 4: Draw the second antennae beside the first one.
Step 5: Put a wavy line on the bottom of the body.
Step 6: Illustrate the speckled pattern of the slug with varying sized dots.
Interesting Facts about the Garden Slug
The Garden Slug is a gastropod (meaning “Stomach Foot”) which is the largest class in the animal kingdom – second only to insects. Garden Slugs play an important role in the enviromnet because the eat decomposing vegetation. This actually takes place underground – where ninety-five percent of the slug population currently resides. Garden Slugs have to keep moist because the whole population used to live in the ocean – hence why their skin is wet.
Did you know?
- Garden Slugs can live up to six years during good weather conditions
- They can lay up to one hundred eggs several times per year
- They have both male and female reproductive organs
- Only five percent of the slug population is above ground
- Eggs can lay dormant underground for years before hatching
Lesson Plan Idea – Research slugs and find out exactly how they help the environment. Discover their purpose and what could be done to make it better and/or more effective.
How to Draw a Garden Slug – Step-by-Step Tutorial