Here's a brilliant drawing trick — the number 7 transforms perfectly into a dinosaur! The angled shape of the 7 becomes the dinosaur's head and neck, making it an easy and memorable way to draw a dino. Parikshet shows you how to turn the number 7 into a friendly dinosaur step by step.

🖍️ What You Need

  • Pencil and eraser
  • Green markers
  • Black pen for outlines
  • White for the eye and teeth

How to Draw a Dinosaur from the Number 7

  1. Write a large number 7 — draw a big 7 on your page. The top horizontal stroke and the diagonal down-stroke will form the dinosaur's head and neck.
  2. Turn the top into the head — round out the top-right of the 7 into a dinosaur head, adding a snout at the end.
  3. Use the diagonal as the neck — the slanting line of the 7 becomes the dinosaur's long, sloping neck and back.
  4. Add the face — a friendly eye, a smiling mouth, and maybe a few small teeth or a row of bumps on the head.
  5. Draw the body and tail — extend from the bottom of the 7 into a rounded body and a long tapering tail.
  6. Add the legs — two sturdy back legs and two smaller front arms (for a T-Rex style) or four legs (for a long-necked dino).
  7. Add back spikes or plates — a row of small triangles or plates along the neck and back for a classic dinosaur look.
  8. Colour — green is classic, but dinosaurs can be any colour you imagine!
💡 Parikshet's Tip: The secret to the number-7 dinosaur is using the angled shape as the head-and-neck: the top of the 7 becomes the head, and the diagonal becomes the sloping neck. Once you see how the 7 maps onto the dinosaur's front end, the rest of the body just flows out from the bottom.

🌟 Did You Know?

Dinosaurs ruled the Earth for about 165 million years — far, far longer than humans have existed (only around 300,000 years so far). We learn about them from fossils: bones, footprints, and even fossilised eggs and poo! New dinosaur species are still being discovered today — on average, a brand-new kind of dinosaur is named roughly every week somewhere in the world.

Numbers That Become Animals

  • 7 → a dinosaur (the angle becomes the head and neck)
  • 2 → a swan (the curve becomes the neck)
  • 9 → a mouse (loop = body, stem = tail)
  • 8 → a snowman or a bee

🎯 Try This: Build a Dinosaur Park from Numbers

  1. Use the number 7 to draw a few different dinosaurs.
  2. Add spikes for a Stegosaurus, a long neck for a Brontosaurus, horns for a Triceratops.
  3. Add a prehistoric background with volcanoes and ferns.
  4. Label each dinosaur with a fun made-up or real name.