How to teach a child to draw

Drawing is a useful and fun activity for both children and adults. For mothers who cannot draw, lessons with children are more difficult. To make creativity with your child fun, you can use various drawing techniques.

Children's drawing techniques

Before you start teaching your kid to draw, you need to introduce him to pencils and paints. To begin with, you can draw together when the baby is holding a pencil, and mom draws them on a sheet of paper. Then, with the child, you need to study the properties of objects, tracing them with your hand in order to feel the outlines. The next step is to choose a painting technique.

You can draw in different ways. There are traditional techniques, which include practicing using a pencil, crayons, felt-tip pens, watercolors, gouache or wax crayons. Preference should be given to the technique that the child likes, because the key to the successful development of the baby lies in his interest in the creative process.

From non-standard techniques, one can distinguish drawing with fingers, palms, foam rubber, cork, cotton swabs or cocktail tubes. The process consists in dipping the selected object into paint, and then applying the impression on a piece of paper.

Older children can paint using sand and salt. An unusual way is to paint with crumpled paper. A crumpled piece of paper is dipped in paint and applied to a blank piece of paper, on which the drawing remains.

You can also paint with splashes or blots. Splatter can be obtained by brushing paint off the paintbrush onto a piece of paper. Blots are created using cocktail tubes through which paint is blown.

An interesting kind of drawing is engraving and monotopy. In these techniques, you need to paint over thick paper with a thick layer. To obtain an engraving, the drawing is scratched with a sharp object. And to obtain a monotopy, a blank sheet of paper is applied from above, on which a printed blurry pattern is obtained. It can be used as a base for a landscape.

You can also use a variety of objects for drawing. Moreover, you can use absolutely everything that is at hand, the choice depends on the imagination of the child and parents. Alternatively, you can paint using natural materials such as collected leaves, flowers, cones. Plasticine, thread spools, buttons of various sizes and shapes, threads, orange peel are also suitable. Any household item can be used. Having chosen an object, you need to print it on a piece of paper, and every time, even using one object, the print will be unique.

Teach a child to draw in stages

In the process of learning to draw, parents need to be patient, attentive and empathetic. In no case should you laugh at the kid's clumsy attempts, otherwise you can discourage all desire and interest in classes.

The duration of the classes should be 10-20 minutes, they should be carried out several times a week.

To teach a kid to draw with pencils, you need:

1. Explain to the child that the drawing is created from simple elements.
2. Draw simple geometric shapes with a crumb, find them in the environment and tell that with their help you can depict objects on a piece of paper.
3. Teach the kid to paint over the drawn details. You can use ready-made coloring pages, or you can draw pictures yourself and color them together.
4. Provide the kid with pencils so that he draws the drawing himself. To keep the interest in drawing alive, it is imperative to praise the child for every achievement.

In order to teach a child to draw objects, animals or people, you can use a step-by-step drawing method. It consists in drawing according to a ready-made algorithm in certain proportions.

In order to organize a step-by-step drawing lesson, you need to prepare an album, a pencil, an eraser and a clear outline. To interest the child, parents can first draw a drawing themselves according to the prepared scheme. Seeing the interest and enthusiasm of adults, the child will also be happy to join the process.

The benefits of drawing

Toddlers develop through play and creativity. Drawing helps to develop the mind and imagination, helps in mastering new objects, such as a pencil, felt-tip pen or paintbrush. If the child has depression, it is drawing that makes it possible to find out about the true reasons for this condition.

Through drawing, the child expresses himself, learns to distinguish and convey through the drawing various colors and shapes of objects.

Drawing, children develop and enrich their inner world, making it richer and brighter. It is also a great way to develop fine motor skills in your child's hands.

Creative drawing activities help your child develop concentration and motivation, because to get a beautiful meaningful drawing, you need to make an effort and focus.