How to teach a kid to draw?
Drawing is very important for the development of the child. Drawing, the child learns to perceive the shape and color of objects, memorize objects, compare the sizes and proportions of objects. In the process of drawing, the child uses his imagination, accumulated experience and knowledge, analyzes. In addition, develops small motor skills of the child's hands, attention, assiduity, the baby's vocabulary increases. Therefore, it's not only pleasant to draw a kid, but it's also useful. But when and how to start teaching a child to draw?
You can begin to teach drawing from 6 months, because from about this age the crumb alreadyslowly shows interest in what others do. Begin painting with the baby yourself. In this case, show him the colors, name the colors, show how you can combine colors. Calling an object to a child, name its color, for example, green grass, yellow lemon, red tomato.
From 9 months you can already suggest that the child draw. The kid needs a lot of space, as children at this age draw from the shoulder. Offer the crumb big pieces of wallpaper for creativity, otherwise he will find himself a suitable cloth, for example, a wall or a cabinet.
What can a child draw at this age? It's too early to give him pens and pencils, buta thick marker is fine. Now special finger paints for drawing by hands are widely distributed - they too are suitable for the baby. The child will like to leave on paper multicolored prints of his palms, fingers.
Giving a child a pencil for drawing orfelt tip pen, from the very beginning patiently and persistently teach him to hold the instrument correctly and not drop it. This skill is developed in the child very slowly, because it is more convenient for a child to grab a pencil or a brush with a fist.
What do the children paint? The very first drawings of the baby are "Kalyaki Malyaki"consisting mainly of horizontal lines. A little later the child learns the vertical, so the circular lines. After the child learns to connect the lines together. TO 1,5 years children can already draw plot drawings, they begin to draw not with the whole hand, but from the elbow, so the size of the drawing paper can already be smaller, for example 30x40 cm. In 2 years the child gradually learns to draw all the smaller objects, since he uses only the brush and his fingers.
It is important to parents helped the child develop his skills. It is best to do this by drawing with the baby. Children 1,5-2 years can offer to finish already begun the parents drawings: dorisovat typewriter wheels, windows for the house.
Do not limit the child in his work and ask him to draw something "to order." Before 3-4 years children still think abstractly, best of all to themmulticolored abstract paintings succeed. But you can offer a child 2-3 years to draw something from nature, for example, your favorite toy. So the child learns to observe, compare parts of objects.
Even if the baby is not exactly what it wasit was conceived, it is impossible to criticize it or to correct something and add something with your own hand. It means for the kid that he is not able to draw something good, and can forever turn him away from further attempts. It is sometimes necessary to leave the child alone with a sheet of paper, so that he gets used to acting independently. The most successful from them it is necessary to hang on a wall, to give to grandmothers and grandfathers for a birthday.
