This unique drawing technique will help your child develop both hemispheres of the brain.

One of the common problems of modern children is a violation of coordination in actions between the hemispheres of the brain. How can this problem be helped in preschool age?

You can do physical exercises, do finger exercises. The tasks discussed below will successfully complement them. The highlight of the tasks is simultaneous drawing with both hands on checkered paper. This is one of the ways of mirror drawing. Drawing with two hands harmonizes the actions of the hemispheres.

Most likely, you will be faced with the fact that while drawing at the same time, the child’s hands are not working in a coordinated manner: one is in a hurry, the other is lagging behind. The goal is to achieve coordinated movements. This requires practice, but is quite achievable. Cells will help us. It’s easier to navigate by them, it’s easier to keep the same dimensions of the right and left parts: not only the eye is activated, but also counting skills, which are important for the future student.

Drawing with two hands.

Drawing with two hands is quite difficult. Therefore, at first it is more useful to suggest tracing the pictures with both hands simultaneously along the dotted lines. It is raining in the picture.

Droplets fall on the grass.

How worms went to visit a friend

Instructions. The two worm brothers had not met for a long time and decided to see each other. There are several paths that worms can take. They move from opposite ends and meet in the middle.

Exercise “Draw a couple of ducklings”

After the tracks we move on to the objects. Instructions: redraw the duckling on the right so that it swims towards you.

Exercise "Cockerels"

Once upon a time there lived two cockerel bullies. It seemed to everyone that his friend was stealing grains from him. Make peace with bullies. Draw the grains. You need to draw with both hands at the same time. Color the cockerels with both hands at the same time.

Exercise "Hedgehogs"

The work is similar. Hedgehogs need to draw needles with both hands at the same time. Then trace and color them. We also draw the tree in the middle with both hands at the same time, starting from the bottom.

Two-handed drawing at school

How is the two-handed drawing method used in practice in remedial classes at school?

The activity of the right and left hands in humans is associated with the left and right hemispheres of the brain, respectively. Consequently, by developing the motor skills of the right hand, we develop the left hemisphere of the brain, and the left - the right.

Left hemisphere of the brain is responsible for the development of speech, writing and reading abilities. Thanks to the work of the left hemisphere, a person is able to remember various facts, events, dates, names, their sequence and how they will look in writing. The left hemisphere is responsible for human analytical thinking; thanks to this hemisphere, logic and analysis of facts are developed, and manipulations with numbers and mathematical formulas are carried out. In addition, the left hemisphere of the brain is responsible for the sequence of information processing (step-by-step processing). Thanks to the left hemisphere, all information received by a person is processed, classified, analyzed, the left hemisphere establishes cause-and-effect relationships and formulates conclusions.

Right hemisphere of the brain is responsible for processing so-called nonverbal information, that is, for processing information expressed in images and symbols, rather than words. The right hemisphere is responsible for imagination; with its help, a person is able to fantasize, dream, and also compose, learn poetry and prose. This is also where a person’s abilities for initiative and art (music, drawing, etc.) are located. The right hemisphere is responsible for parallel processing of information, that is, like a computer, it allows a person to simultaneously analyze several different streams of information, make decisions and solve problems, simultaneously considering the problem as a whole and from different angles. Thanks to the right hemisphere of the brain, we make intuitive connections between images, understand a variety of metaphors, and perceive humor. The right hemisphere allows a person to recognize complex images that cannot be broken down into elementary components, for example, the process of recognizing people's faces and the emotions that these faces display.

And for everything to develop harmoniously, you just need to learn to work with both hands, the left as well as the right. To do this, we have prepared for you recipes that use both hands at the same time. It will be fun to study according to such recipes not only for children, but even for adults!

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There is an opinion that people who write with their right hand have a more developed left hemisphere of the brain, and for left-handers, accordingly, the opposite is true. Therefore, it is very useful (not only for children, but also for adults) to develop both hemispheres equally. That is why psychologists have already invented several techniques that help with this.

Today we want to tell you about a drawing technique called griffonage. Another name for the technique is double doodling. The essence of this exercise is that a person draws something while his attention is occupied with something else. For example, when a student is sitting at a lecture, he begins to unconsciously draw something in the margins of his notebook - this is a type of double doodling. Griffon images can be both abstract and concrete. This is a very useful technique for children. But we recommend that you develop yourself in the same way.

How to draw using this technique?

Your task is to draw with both hands at the same time, while leaving as symmetrical drawings on the paper as possible.

To do this, take felt-tip pens or pencils in your hands, press them together and place them in the center of a sheet of paper. We begin to draw with two of these markers at once, creating a mirror drawing. For example, if the right hand draws to the right and down, then the left hand should draw to the left and down. When one hand begins to move towards the center, the other should immediately do the same.

To make it more convenient for children to draw, secure their sheet of paper on the table with tape.

Here are examples of children's drawings using the double doodling technique.