Get Started with Canva

Tutorials made for kids, tweens, and creative beginners!

New to Canva? Youโ€™re in the right place! These step-by-step beginner tutorials are designed to help young creatives (and their grown-ups!) build confidence using Canva โ€” one click at a time.

Whether you’re making your first poster, a social media graphic, or just exploring digital design, these videos will walk you through the basics in bite-sized lessons.

Each tutorial is short, fun, and focused โ€” perfect for short attention spans, creative brains, and learning by doing.

Who These Tutorials Are For:

  • Kids, tweens & creative teens

  • Total beginners (no design experience needed!)

  • Parents supporting creative learning at home

  • Teachers or homeschoolers introducing Canva in class

Getting Started with Canva

Why Use Canva?

Canva is a fun, user-friendly graphic design tool that helps young creatives express their ideas visually. Itโ€™s free to use, works on any device, and is perfect for school projects, creative hobbies, or just learning how to design like a pro.

The tutorial belowย will walk you through what Canva is, how to sign up, and how to navigate the dashboard and tools.

Whatโ€™s inside:

  • What Canva is and why itโ€™s awesome
  • How to sign up and the different memberships
  • Quick tour of the dashboard and editor
  • Tips for first-time users

Click the link below to go to Canva๐Ÿ‘‡

 

OPEN TO FOLLOW STEP BY STEP ๐Ÿ‘‰
  • Use these steps and timestamps, if you need to refer back to something in particular:
    • What is Canva?- 0:23
    • Sign up- 0:41
    • Canva App- 0:53
    • Free & Pro Memberships- 1:05
    • Canva Dashboard- 1:33
    • Design Tab- 2:04
    • Element Tab- 2:40
    • Text Tab- 2:48
    • Upload Tab- 2:56
    • Tools Tab- 3:03
    • Photo Tab- 3:12
    • Can’t Find a Tab? – 3:26
    • Background Tab- 3:40
    • Next Up! Designing in Canva- 4:02

Go MAD and get creative with Canva!

I’d love to see what you come up with ๐Ÿ˜ get in touch at hello@somadaboutdesign

Designing with Canva

A 2-part series for Beginner Designers

Get ready to take your Canva skills to the next level!

๐Ÿ‘‰ Part 1: Learn how to customise a Canva template to make your first poster
๐Ÿ‘‰ Part 2: Build your own design from scratch โ€” upload images, add effects, and make it your own!

Whether youโ€™re creating for fun, school, or a special project, these tutorials will help you build skills and confidence, one step at a time.

๐Ÿ‘€ New here?
Scroll up to start with Getting Started with Canvaย  โ€” I cover the Canva basics – or Scroll down to get designing.

Part 1: Design A Poster

Using a Canva Template

Ready to start designing? In this beginner-friendly Canva tutorial, youโ€™ll learn how to create your first poster using a pre-made template โ€” step by step.

Learn how to:
  • Pick a template that fits your style

  • Change colours, fonts, and text

  • Move and resize elements

  • Personalise it to make it your own.

This is a great way to get comfortable with Canva while making something fun โ€” perfect for creative kids and teens just starting out with digital design.

OPEN TO FOLLOW STEP-BY-STEP ๐Ÿ‘‰
  • Use these steps and timestamps, if you need to find something in particular:
    • Overview- 0:26
    • Find a template- 0:49
    • Customise your template- 1:19
    • Toolbar options- 1:35
    • Undo/Redo – 2:13
    • Duplicate Element- 2:24
    • Customise Text- 2:32
    • Resize text box- 2:42
    • Centre text in text box- 2:57
    • Add text box-3:22
    • Centre multiple elements- 3:39
    • Change text colour- 4:17
    • Customise elements- 4:39
    • Change background colour- 4:58
    • Add element/graphic- 5:15
    • Change layer order- 6:01

Part 2: Design A Poster

Level up your skills with your own design.

Let’s take the next step in your Canva journey.

In this tutorial, I’ll walk through how to design a poster from scratch using your own ideas, images, and creative choices. No templates this time โ€” just you, your imagination, and a blank canvas!

Learn how to:
  • Start with a blank canvas
  • Upload and use your own images or artwork
  • Use text effects, gradients, other edits and photos,
  • Save and download your final design

This tutorial is perfect for creative kids and teens who are ready to level up their Canva skills and make something thatโ€™s completely their own.

OPEN TO FOLLOW STEP-BY-STEP ๐Ÿ‘‰
  • Use these steps and timestamps, if you need to find something in particular:
    • Overview- 0:11
    • New Page- 0:36
    • Uploading to Canva- 1:03
    • Deleting Extra Uploads- 1:21
    • File Types – 1:32
    • Add Text- 2:15
    • Change Font- 2:31
    • Text Effects- 2:46
    • Other Edits- 3:33
    • Keep options-4:09
    • Background- 4:34
    • Gradients- 4:46
    • Using Photos- 5:03
    • Rearrange Layers- 5:54
    • Reposition Background Photo- 6:06
    • Save & Share- 6:53

Go MAD and get creative with Canva!

I’d love to see what you come up with ๐Ÿ˜ get in touch at hello@somadaboutdesign