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Drawing with kids: expert advice, system of play activities, ideas

Drawing with kids: expert advice. Main stages, a system of game tasks and activities, ideas and themes, rules for drawing with children from 1 to 3 years old.

Drawing with kids

Drawing for children from 1 to 3 years old is an exciting game, discovering new colors of the world, the beauty of lines and shapes, color spots, and experimentation. The sooner a child starts drawing, the better. And the point here is not only in the development of fine motor skills, but also in the great influence that drawing has on the development of a child in early childhood. And how wonderful it is when a child learns to draw at home next to his mother and with his older brothers and sisters.

This article will become a guide for you in the world of drawing for the little ones. The article is based on pedagogical research by Russian scientists and teachers (T.N. Doronova and S.G. Yakobson, T.S. Komarova, N.P. Sakulina, E.A. Yanushko and others), and the system they developed for teaching children drawing, as well as the practical experience of the author of the “Native Path” website in teaching children from 1 to 3 years old.

From this article you will learn:

Section 1. Why teach your child to draw: the main tasks of teaching drawing to young children from 1 to 3 years old, why drawing is useful for the development of a child.

Section 2. How to teach a child from 1 to 3 years old to draw:

• — the main stages of drawing with kids,
• — types of game drawing lessons with practical examples,
• - how to interest a child in drawing,
• - how to correctly evaluate and comment on a child’s drawings,
• - how to more effectively plan drawing lessons with your child.

Section 3. Basic Techniques drawing and materials for young children

Section 4. R We play with children from 1 to 2 years old: this is a very important “doodle stage”.

Section 5. Drawing with kids from 2 to 3 years old: sequence and ideas for tasks, how to teach a child to hold a brush correctly, useful tips.

Section 6. Useful books about drawing with children 1-2 years old.

In this article, I also answered questions from readers of “Native Path” and told how you can cope with typical mistakes or difficulties that always occur in the practice of communicating with young children and in the practice of teaching them.

Section 1. Why teach your child to draw?

Before you do anything, you need to ask yourself: why am I going to do this? Does my little child still need drawing? Maybe he will grow up and learn on his own. Is it safe to give your baby a pencil and paints? At what age can you give them to your baby? Let's figure out the answers to these questions together.

1. 1. The main tasks of drawing with young children

Our main task in teaching drawing to the youngest children from children 1 to 3 years old is create conditions for the emergence of drawing, support the child’s desire to draw, create, and explore. The most important thing in drawing is the child’s joy and pleasure from the process, and not “correct work with an A grade according to the given template,” which can be boasted to others.

It is very important for us to arouse the child’s interest in drawing, to create such conditions so that the child wants to depict on paper in drawing what he is emotionally captivated by, what is interesting to HIM (and not an adult)! It is very important that the child “throws out” his experiences and impressions on paper in the way he likes, so that he wants to portray what worries him now.

Therefore, the approach to drawing for children is very different from the “school” approach to drawing for assessment in the classroom.

When we draw with the little ones, we can and should combine drawing with other activities of the child that evoke an emotional response in him– playing a musical instrument (for example, after drawing rain, you can play the melody of rain on a metallophone), singing, dancing to music, looking at a painting, a poem, puppet theater.

So, drawing with kids is a joyful shared experience between an adult and a child, the joy of experimenting and learning about the world of color and form. And our main result of drawing with a child is his interest in drawing, the desire to draw, the joy of his drawing (and not the achievement of perfectly straight lines of the drawing, as is sometimes believed).

1. 2. How is drawing useful for a child’s development?

Drawing is not just pampering or a pleasant pastime for children and adults. Drawing is a truly educational activity for a child.

• Drawing is a sensory-motor exercise, the development of fine motor skills and sensorimotor coordination, i.e. natural, natural development of the child’s brain in activities that are interesting to him.
• Drawing is also the development of a child’s cognitive abilities, an effective and at the same time very simple way to deepen and clarify his ideas about the world around him.
• In the process of drawing, the ability to feel color, rhythm, the beauty of a spot, a line develops, and the child develops a sense of beauty.
• Drawing teaches you to correlate speech with action in a way that is fun and easy for the child, and develops focused attention, which is very often lacking in modern children. After all, a child needs to complete the image when drawing, i.e. bring the job you started to completion.
• Drawing develops a child's imagination.
• Drawing is closely related to the development of children’s speech, because in the process of visual activity we conduct a conversation with the child, name color, shape, size, actions, and encourage speech.

Section 2. How to teach a child to draw

2. 1 Basic stages of drawing with kids

Any child from one to three years old goes through several stages during the development of drawing.

First stage. Introduction to visual materials– pencils, paints, crayons, ink and others.

At the first stage of drawing, we give the child the opportunity to experiment with paints or a pencil, but at the same time we do not give tasks to depict something.

However, by looking at a child’s random drawing, we can give meaning to what he came up with: “Oh, look, smoke is coming”! (we say, showing the child scribbles in the form of circles and strokes). Or: “It’s raining drip-drip-drip-drip for you” (if the child draws with a pencil from top to bottom)

Second phase. A child imitates an adult in drawing

A child at this age cannot yet set himself a task like an adult (an example of such a task for an adult: “I will draw a bunny”). Even if a 2-year-old child sets himself such a task (“I want to draw snow”), he will quickly lose it and instead of snow in the drawing, what will appear is what happens :).

Therefore, the game task and the drawing task are thought out and set to the child by an adult, he shows what and how to draw, and conveys to the child how to work with visual materials.

At this stage, most often the adult prepares the background in advance and comes up with a theme for drawing, and the child completes the fragments on this background.

EXAMPLE 1: In drawing on the theme “Fireworks”, the adult draws a night city in advance while the child is sleeping (so that he does not see it), and then offers him a ready-made background. After the celebration and watching the fireworks in the sky, the adult invites the child to imitate a fireworks display, and the child pokes a brush and makes a “fireworks” in the sky - the same as he saw in the sky. Below is an approximate diagram of the algorithm for such a drawing.

EXAMPLE 2: We teach a child to color and create a game situation. An adult draws a car and a road on a white sheet of paper. He says that the road is white and needs to be cleared of snow. The child paints the road gray or brown (“clears the snow” so that a car can pass along the road).

It is at this stage that the adult shows the child how to use a brush and pencil.

The very first techniques for painting with a brush are dipping and poking. It is important that we accompany each action in drawing with speech and that these actions and speech are rhythmic. For example, we apply a brush and say “drip” to each resulting drop of rain. Drip-drip-drip-drip - the rhythm of rain and rhythmic movements of a brush with a hand on a sheet of paper are obtained. A child imitates an adult.

Often at this stage you can initially use the “hand in hand” technique, that is, take the baby’s hand in your hand and draw together first. The adult guides the child's hand with his hand. Then gradually we let go of the child’s hand, and he begins to act on his own.

Third stage. The baby can draw an image according to his own plan or at the request of an adult or toy

At this stage, we teach kids to draw circular lines, because... they are the most difficult for a small child. For example, he can already draw a bunny, a ball, a snowman. This stage comes closer to the age of three years.

2. 1. Main types of playful drawing lessons for children from 1 to 3 years old

We can roughly identify several types of playful drawing activities with young children.

A) The first type of game drawing lessons

Familiarizing children with visual materials and experimenting with them, with color, shape, line

A child's drawing does not begin with an image of a ball, a bird, a path or some other object from his life. It begins with the child experimenting with the material itself - paints or pencils - and learning the properties and qualities of beauty.To .

Let's consider how best to introduce the baby to new objects - a pencil and paints, a brush.

Introducing the baby to paints as a new object

Before drawing anything, it is important for your child to get acquainted with paints as an unusual new object - just move your finger with paint over a sheet of paper and learn that, as it turns out, paint leaves a mark on the paper! And these marks can be different - dots (we place our finger vertically), and stripes (we move our finger down the paper and get a “path”), and even squiggles of the most bizarre shapes!

Give your child the opportunity to mix different paints, try applying them on smooth and rough paper and observe the differences.

Of course, the baby will not get to know each other in one go. He will need some time and the help of adults to examine the new object from all sides.

If the child was not allowed to live through this period, then such a situation arises. When an adult immediately puts a new object in the child’s hands and begins to explain drawing techniques and wants to teach the child something, the child does not listen to him, he is absorbed in the new object, reaches for the paint, wants to try it on his teeth, does not listen, and is capricious. After all, his research needs were not satisfied. When the baby is already familiar with this subject, he begins to learn with pleasure that it turns out that with its help this is what can be done! And he is ready to try to draw with you in ways that are new to him.

Introducing the baby to a pencil as a new object

Before starting to draw with a pencil, the child first gets acquainted with the pencil as an object - he can roll it, try to make a ladder out of pencils or put them vertically, deliberately drop them from the table and put them back on the table and drop them again, tear paper with a pencil, knocking pencils together like chopsticks.

Such examination activities cannot be prohibited for a child. On the contrary, we need to encourage them and support the child’s cognitive actions. Usually the child goes through this first “examination” stage from 1 year to 2 years. The sooner a pencil or paint falls into his hands, the sooner this stage will end.

We draw an important conclusion for starting our drawing lessons with the little ones:

Conclusion 1. The very first type of activity for all kids is familiarization with visual materials.. This is explained by the fact that all children first experience the first stage - an interest in the material (pencils, paints, crayons) arises - and only after this is satisfied, an interest in drawing certain objects, embodying life in line and color develops. If we have not introduced the child to paint and a brush in advance and hope that he will immediately begin to draw the picture we have in mind, then most often nothing will work out. Instead of drawing, the child will examine interesting objects that are new to him. And this is normal and natural for his age.

Conclusion 2. Our very important task at this stage of drawing children- in the game, unnoticed by the baby, help him see something similar to life in his randomly obtained images. For example, in the dots drawn by the kids you can see rain in the summer, and snow in the winter, and maybe... dandelions in the meadow (depending on the season and on the child’s impressions in life), in the green ovals you can “identify” and name the cucumbers for the child, and in in red circles there are balls, in green vertical strokes there is grass, and in multi-colored spots on a black background there are fireworks. And only after this the baby will begin to consciously depict on a piece of paper what he sees in life.

b) The second type of playful drawing activities with kids.

A child watching an adult draw

You can draw in front of your child anything, any way, and with any materials. And talk to him about what’s going on.

Examples of such displays:

A) Most often, in front of a child, we draw objects or scenes in which he can participate, for example, we will draw a forest, and the child, using the “dipping” technique with a brush, will draw traces of various animals in the snow in the forest after us. Or we will draw a clearing, a sky, a cloud. And the child will draw drops of rain that come from a cloud to water the flowers on our lawn.

B) An adult can draw whatever the child asks for. It doesn’t matter that you are not an artist and “don’t know how to draw.” A child is not an “arts council”; something completely different is important to him – the joy of creativity and communication! If your child asks you to draw a tractor, then we draw a tractor, name its parts, their size, shape, color, why they are needed in this machine.

C) An adult can draw according to his own design your favorite painting and comment and discuss drawing with your child.

Any observation by a child of an adult’s drawing necessarily takes place in communication between the adult and the child, with the adult commenting on everything he does. The adult tells the child what and how he draws. Commenting is not invented in advance, it is natural communication with the child as an interlocutor, it comes from life, from the interests of the child and mother.

For example: Look, now I’ll draw a bunny for you. What color will our bunny be - white or gray (the baby chooses). Okay, you and I will have a white bunny - white as a snowball! I'll take white paint. Where is our white paint? Here it is, right (the kid gave me a jar of the right color), I’ll dip my brush into the jar. Look carefully - I dip the brush not completely, but halfway. To take a little paint and so that it does not smudge. What needs to be done next - do you remember? (The question is asked only if the child has experience in drawing and can answer you. If there is no such experience, then the adult explains everything himself). Now I need to squeeze the brush against the edge of the jar. So that the excess paint flows into the jar - like this, drip-drip-drip-drip, the paint flows into the jar. Now everything is ready! Here is the bunny's head. The head is round like a ball. I’ll stroke the head with a brush and paint it: like this, like this, like this! (an adult paints over the outline of the head). It turned out to be a white head. Beautiful! What kind of ears does a bunny have? Long ones, that's right. Here is one ear that is long - long (the adult draws a line and simultaneously with the movement of the brush says “Long”), but the second ear is also long. And what kind of body does the bunny have - long or round (we look at the toy) - round like a ball. Now I'll paint over the body. Like this - I stroke the bunny with a brush. Top down, top down! She stroked the bunny's tummy. And he became white! Do you like the bunny's white belly? This is what the body turned out to be. Hey, bunny! What kind of tail does the bunny have - long or short? No, it's short. What does it look like? The tail is like a small ball. Hey bunny, bunny, jump. Our little bunny jumped around the forest - stomp, stomp, stomp. Do you want to jump? Take a brush and paint - stomp, stomp, stomp, stomp. the bunny is running. Smart girl! etc.

If the child does not yet speak, then this comment can be simplified and spoken in simpler, short sentences. For example, you draw marks on a path by dipping. Top-top-top-top, this matryoshka went for a walk along the path. Or jump-jump-jump-jump, a bunny jumped through the snow. Or drip-drip-drip-drip - it’s raining from a cloud. “Vzhzhzhzhzhzhzh” (draw a long horizontal line from one edge of the sheet to the other) - a car drove by. You can draw large and small footprints and introduce the baby to these concepts: big footprints - this is a bear walking through the forest, stomping, stomping, stomping (we speak slowly, in a low voice, each “tap” is one brush stroke). Small footprints - stomp stomp stomp stomp - this is the mouse running (we speak in a high voice, one syllable is one “mouse step”).

As a rule, for the first time the baby will not participate, but will simply observe. But if you want to draw another bunny (“friend” of the previous hare :)), then the baby can already express a desire to take part in drawing. Usually kids, if they liked this activity, then they ask an adult to draw again. Give your child this opportunity! And you can always draw a “friend” for the bunny, his brother, or just another bunny on the lawn in the forest.

There is no need to expect the child to draw everything himself, he will simply join in with your drawing and complete a few details.

Even if the baby doesn’t want to draw himself, but is happy to watch and listen to you, don’t worry, everything goes as it should. While he is “absorbing” new impressions, there is no need to rush him to “immediately draw a hare.” Let him watch for now; the time when he himself will pick up a brush will simply come a little later.

IT IS IMPORTANT TO KNOW: Even the most focused baby will not be able to listen to you attentively for more than 3-5 minutes. And he can perform a chain of 2-3-4 actions, no more. Therefore, all our explanations and comments always include the active actions of the children themselves and are very short-lived.

For example,“Wash the brush for painting and put it to dry” - this is a chain of 2 actions, accessible to a child at 2 years old. But here is the chain: “come up with an idea - translate it on a sheet of paper with paints - set the work to dry - wash the brush - dry the brush - put it back in its place” - is too difficult for a child even at 3-4 years old :).

The most important factor for success in such drawing is your interest, your passion, your emotions and your joy! It is through the emotions of an adult that a child can be interested.

C) The third type of drawing lessons with kids.Free drawing kids

Children draw themselves what they want, how they want and as much as they want.

Our task is to provide them with a creative environment for this (for example, cover the table with oilcloth or lay film on the floor), provide paints, pencils, and crayons. And after drawing, together with the child and with his possible help, restore order and put everything back in place.

It should be taken into account that the “average” child aged 1 to 3 years usually begins to get tired after 10-15 minutes of any activity in a sitting position, including drawing. Therefore, if you see signs of fatigue, you can switch your baby to something else (go for a walk, read a book, play an outdoor game with toys based on his drawing).

D) The fourth type of drawing classes with kids

Mastering drawing techniques together with an adult through game situations

The child draws something specific together with an adult. An adult helps and guides, sets a game plot, shows the child drawing techniques, the correct grip of a brush and pencil with his fingers, etc.

If the first three types of play activities with a child at home in drawing can be carried out already in the second year of the baby’s life, then we begin to use the fourth type after the age of 2 years in the third year of the child’s life.

The relationship between types of drawing activities with children

These types of home drawing activities easily transition into one another and are given as a guide. For example, if you showed drawing (second type), and after that the child wanted to draw himself (third type), then we give him the materials and let him create!

Or another example: a child began to draw on his own, but asked you for help. Moreover, this request will be expressed in childish language: “UUU, bibi!” :), which means: “it didn’t work out, please help me draw a car.” Of course, in this case there is an option. We will either show you how to draw a car and the child will draw it himself. Or we’ll draw it ourselves on our own sheet of paper in front of the child and comment on what we’re doing.

I have highlighted four types here so that we do not forget that drawing can be different, and all types are necessary and important. Each type performs its own task in the development of a child.

Any of these types of play activities takes from 5 minutes in duration (if your child is active and restless and cannot concentrate for a long time) to 10 minutes.

The maximum duration (this is the entire process, including not only drawing, but also a dialogue with the game character, presenting him with your drawing at the end of the work, a song or game on the theme of the drawing) is 15 minutes. Of these, drawing does not take up all the time, but alternates with other types of activity of the baby.

2. 3. How to interest a small child in drawing

Without interest in drawing, there will be no successful solution to the problem of teaching the visual skills of young children. After all, drawing is a more complex type of visual activity for a child than modeling (You can read more about modeling with children from 1 to 3 years old, basic techniques, rules, game plots in modeling in the article).

There are children who immediately become interested in paints and brushes, crayons and paint with pleasure. And there are those kids who are simply very afraid of colors! Or they don’t want to draw at all; they are much more interested in tearing a sheet of paper with a brush.

But it is important to understand that any child from 1 to 3 years old will not be happy to complete educational drawing tasks (draw grass, rain, balls, etc.) if he does not understand why he needs it? Therefore, any drawing lesson with a child is always a playful activity.

An example of such a game plot: we want to draw carrots with the child. What could the plot be? Who might need these carrots? One option is that the bunny may need them. Therefore, our plot can unfold like this: a bunny comes running to us from the forest. He is upset. He was walking through the forest and lost his basket in the forest. And there were carrots in it. Now he has nothing to bring home to the bunnies. The bunny asks the child to help him and draw carrots for his bunnies, because he needs them so much to feed his large family!

How to properly conduct such a game - drawing for a toy with a baby? The nuances are very important here!

Rule 1. How to correctly introduce a toy - a character into a drawing lesson with a child.

WRONG: You take a toy and in your voice say to the child: “Look, Mashenka! Here's a bunny. He asks you to draw carrots for the bunnies. He lost his carrots in the forest." Or you just say, without a toy, “Let’s help the bunnies and draw carrots for them.” Most children will not accept the game and will give it up in this case

CORRECT: You take the toy, and the toy says for itself in a different (not your) voice: “Hello, Mashenka! I came to you from the forest. Do you also live in the forest? No? And where? And this year we have a problem in the village - a bad harvest! There is no food at all! And we need so much food to feed ourselves and to feed our bunnies. Could you make us some carrots – draw them?”

Rule 2. It is useless to simply tell a child a story without a toy. It is important for the child to see this particular hare, whom he will help, to hear how he talks to him, to make sure that he really needs help - in this case, he needs carrots :). And then he will accept the learning task and will be happy to help the bunny by drawing. And at the end he will give his carrots to the hare, who will thank him and take them to the forest.

Rule 3. The resulting drawing result must be “used for its intended purpose” right away, so that the child is convinced that his efforts were not in vain. That is, we give the bunny carrots, he thanks us and is very happy, he may even sing or dance a song in gratitude to us. And the bunny quickly takes our drawings into the forest. This moment is the most important for the child, and it should not be missed under any circumstances.

You can come up with a lot of such scenes for playful drawing lessons with your child! Create, improvise, use stories from children's fairy tales, poems, songs, and from our everyday life. I will give tips and an approximate list of possible plots below in the description of drawing by age of children.

2. 4. Is it necessary to evaluate children’s drawings and comment on them for the child?

Of course, we always give a positive assessment to any child’s drawing.

There are three important points here.

First. If a child made a drawing according to instructions from a toy, then the toy itself evaluates the work. A(for example, a bunny “accepts” carrots drawn by him from a baby and thanks the child for them),

• WRONG: An adult says: “Masha, the bunny says thank you. He really liked your carrots.”
• CORRECT: An adult says in the voice of a bunny: “Masha, what is this in your basket? Surprise! Oh, those are carrots! Well, thank you! How I like them! This is a thick carrot, probably very juicy. But this one is thin. It's probably crunchy. Do you also like to chew carrots? I'll take them to my bunnies. Well, I ran into the forest to treat the bunnies with carrots. Come visit us! We will be glad!

Second. If you need to correct something in a child’s drawing, we also do it in a playful way. For example:

• WRONG: An adult says: “Your sunshine turned out well. Where are the rays? Forgot to draw again? I told you that I need to draw more rays, but you forgot.” After such an assessment, the baby will no longer have the desire to draw.
• CORRECT: An adult or a fairy-tale hero says: “Oh, you got the sunshine! What a round, yellow, warm thing. Well, I’ll stretch out my hands to him and bask in the sun. It's so warm! And warm yourself up. Oh, why did the sun hide its rays behind the clouds? Scared of us. Don't be afraid of us, sunshine. Show us the rays. Let’s help the sun show us its rays - let’s draw them like this!” and finish drawing the details that the baby forgot.

Third. Be sure to discuss his drawings with your child. Such a discussion encourages the baby to develop visual skills and creates a trusting relationship between mother and baby.

If the drawing is successful, then, as a rule, adults do not have any difficulties. And every adult will always find something to answer the child and something to tell him about his drawing. But if the drawing is completely incomprehensible to you. So what should we do? But the child brought it to you, which means he is waiting for your comments, waiting with joy and impatience. How to guide your baby? After all, it’s just “yes, yes. “put the drawing here,” will clearly not satisfy the child or may even offend? Let's look at specific cases from life.

Example 1. Your 2-year-old child brought you something incomprehensible in a drawing in the form of a circle, and says that it is his mother or grandmother(and this is how many children draw adults). Don't be silent and don't be surprised. And immediately tell him: “What an interesting mother you have turned out to be!” Where is my hair? What about the eyes? Pens? Legs? Let the child complete the image with those details that he already knows well and that are available to him for depiction.

Example 2. Let's assume that your baby drew the same circle and brought you this drawing. But at the same time, he clearly doesn’t know what it is and what he depicted. In this case, you can and should start playing riddles with him and immediately ask him: “Did you draw a bun or a plate? Or maybe it's a bunny? Or the moon? I just can’t guess! It's probably a round clock - yes or no? All children love this game! Even if they were not going to wish you something, they immediately take on the role of the wisher and talk with you with pleasure. And so guess until your baby agrees that you “guessed” what he depicted.

With the help of such dialogues, we teach young children to find similarities in lines, spots, shapes in a drawing with the objects of our life, and develop their imagination. And we push the development of drawing to new, more complex stages, and create trusting relationships in the family.

Be sure to praise the child’s drawing, even if it seems to you that it “turned out worse than it could have been” or “worse than the neighbor’s child.” Praise is very important at this age. Joy and pride in achievements are important to the child; he tries very hard and still finds drawing difficult. We draw with children not for the sake of exhibitions and exemplary results (in which it is often impossible to understand whether the child drew or an adult did everything for him?), but for the sake of the development of the child himself. Therefore, tell your child about his drawing and find what you like in it - bright colors, a cheerful clown, beautiful eyes or snow, or any other fragment of the drawing.

2. 5. How to plan home drawing lessons with your baby

From the age of a child from 2 years old, we can already plan our home play drawing activities. In order to make the most of your time, you need to know the basic rules of planning learning for young children.

The first rule of planning home drawing lessons with your child. At first, when the child is just learning to hold a pencil and brush correctly and draw with them, the frequency and sequence of playful drawing sessions with the child is very important.

For a small child from 1 to 3 years old, it is very important to follow the principle of educational planning based on knowledge of the age characteristics of children. Research (by G.M. Lyamina) has shown that if we teach kids something new, it is better to plan our lessons this way: hold them for two days in a row, and then repeat the material after 2-3 days. Let's look at this sequence as an example.

For example, we want to teach a child to draw vertical lines and strengthen his ability to hold a brush correctly.

How to properly plan play activities with a young child in drawing:

Correctly, easily for the child and more effectively it can be done this way. We are planning three small play sessions, during which we will draw different scenes with the baby, but in all of them the main ones will be vertical lines.

For example:

• On Monday, April 7th we will draw rain.
• On Tuesday, April 8, my child and I will draw green grass or ribbons for dolls (these are also vertical lines).
• Then you can take a break for a few days if you don’t want to draw or have other plans.
• On Friday or Saturday (April 11 or 12), we will again draw vertical lines with the baby to consolidate the skill. But this time we need a different game plot. For example, this will be a fence for a rooster - the kid will draw a fence to hide the toy from the fox.

The planning cycle for learning a new skill (in this case, drawing vertical lines) is complete. Then we can repeat this material on any day and with any breaks. For example, we will reinforce this skill again in a few days on April 17 and draw a new plot with the same vertical lines - for example, a railroad. You will draw two horizontal lines on a piece of paper in advance. And the baby will draw vertical ones. On this train, along these rails and sleepers, a familiar and beloved fairy-tale toy hero - Cockerel, Bear or Bunny - will come to visit you.

Only after the baby has already learned to control his hand during such a short period of time, holds a brush correctly, and has learned the rules for using it, can you plan a “painting day” once a week, and this will be correct.

Typical mistakes in planning:

EXAMPLE of a typical mistake No. 1. NOT VERY EFFECTIVE and therefore INCORRECT.

• We planned that every Monday morning we would draw with the child.
• On April 7, we drew rain and taught how to hold a brush correctly.
• A week passed, and on April 14 we started drawing grass, but the baby had already forgotten everything. And we again teach him how to hold a brush and move it vertically along a sheet of paper.
• Another week passed, and we started painting the fence on April 21st. And we start again from the beginning.

This way of learning to draw is too complicated, because... does not take into account the nature of a small child and the fact that children 1 and 2 years old do not develop new skills so quickly and easily, unlike older children - preschoolers. There is no need to do this.

EXAMPLE of a typical mistake No. 2: also ineffective and therefore incorrect

On Monday we teach the child to draw vertical lines, on Tuesday – circular ones, and on Wednesday – horizontal ones. The baby is confused because... Each action requires a special movement of the brush on a sheet of paper, and so far this has been difficult for him. It is difficult for a small child to switch.

SO, let's summarize the first rule. To make drawing with your baby simple, easy and enjoyable for both the child and the adult, you need to take into account the rule for planning our play activities. When we want to teach a child a new skill, we need to repeat this material with the child several times in a row in one week, but in different game scenes. If the child is already free to draw and masters basic movements and skills, then we can plan only one permanent “drawing day” during the week to engage in this type of activity with the child.

RULE 2: All of a child’s drawing cannot be reduced only to play activities with an adult. Equally important, and perhaps more important, is the child’s free drawing according to his plans. You need to devote no less time to it than to “learning” drawing with an adult!

Therefore, plan the time when you simply give your baby paints and the opportunity to do with them what he wants! If the child doesn’t know what to draw, then give him an idea and help. If a child creates on his own, then interfering with his free creativity and, even more so, introducing your own patterns into it (“How did you draw a Christmas tree? Wrong? How did I teach you?” :)) is extremely undesirable. After all, who said that our way of drawing is the only true and best way for any person? The child has every right to invent his own way of drawing!

In kindergartens and children's centers, the creation of a developmental environment for the development of a child's drawing is usually planned as follows: 2 educational game lessons on drawing, then the third – drawing according to the kids’ ideas. And again 2 training sessions and after them - a third drawing according to the child’s idea or experimenting with paints. Plus, every day children have free access to paints and pencils to draw according to plan.

Section 3. Basic materials and drawing techniques for little ones

3. 1. Materials for drawing with children 1 - 2 years old

You can use different materials for drawing with young children:

• brushes and paints (gouache, watercolor, icing for decorating cookies with food coloring or natural berry dyes),
• bright soft colored pencils,
• crayons (wax and regular),
• felt-tip pens (both felt-tip pens for paper and felt-tip pens for fabric),
• Finger paint,
• pieces of sponge (you can cut them in different sizes and shapes),
• pieces of cotton wool (cotton balls, cotton swabs) as stamps - signets for a pattern of round shapes,
• brushes (“poke the brush with a poke” and get an interesting texture, similar to a dandelion or fluff or animal fur),
• stamps for children - signets (ready-made sets of stamps for children with stamp inks),
• In recent years, gel pens, watercolor pencils, colored ballpoint pens, and colored ink have also begun to be used in drawing with children.

You will also need:

• Palette for mixing colors,
• Place for drawing. First of all, this is an oilcloth so that you can use it to cover the table and not have to worry about the safety of your furniture while your child is drawing (if the furniture does not allow it to be washed). If you are worried about the cleanliness of the floor, then there is no need to prohibit drawing and modeling. Just select a place for drawing where there is no carpet or sofa nearby or other objects that require delicate handling, and cover the floor and table with film. The main thing is that both you and the baby are happy and calm while drawing and that your creativity is not overshadowed by annoying hindrances in the form of stains on a light-colored sofa.
• A children's waterproof apron and sleeves (if the child has long sleeves) so as not to stain the child's clothes during his “colorful experiments”,
• A jar for water (the most convenient jar is a sippy cup, which is sold in office supply stores). You can use any stable, wide container. You should not give narrow dishes, because... The child will splash water from it.
• A napkin is wet and dry for wiping a child's hands while drawing and experimenting with paints. It should always be at hand right on the table.

What you can draw on with a child 1-2 years old:

You can draw with your kids at:

• regular drawing paper
• on fabric
• on cardboard,
• on plywood,
• on a wooden plank.
• You can take a large sheet of whatman paper (or half-whatman paper) and do collective work on it with several children. Moreover, in group work, one child can make stamps with a sponge, another can draw with a pencil, and a third can use paint. This picture is the simplest - sun, grass, flowers, rain, etc. The adult completes the picture of the children to make it more interesting and recognizable to them. For example, you can add characters to the background - a bunny, a hedgehog and others.

3. 2. Basic drawing techniques for little ones

With young children you can use quite a variety of drawing methods. For example:

• poke drawing,
• dip painting,
• drawing with stamps
• drawing lines (vertical and horizontal),
• drawing circular lines,
• finger painting - fingerprints on paper

It is very important: When learning a new skill or a new drawing technique, it is advisable to adhere to the planning given above. Then the child will learn to transfer the skill to new conditions, learn to draw independently, come up with his own stories based on already mastered skills, and we will be able to consolidate new skills. Otherwise, if you constantly “jump” - switch from one technique to another technique (today we drew with a poke, tomorrow with a dab, next week we will draw circles, and then a week later - lines, and we will draw everything only once), then there will be no skill The child will not master it firmly and will not learn to draw on his own. He will be dependent on the adult and his ideas. And we need the child to learn to express his own impressions in drawings, and for this we need him to learn to use a brush and pencil fluently enough for his age.

We will describe the basic drawing techniques that are accessible even to the youngest children.

3. 3. How to poke and draw with young children

To paint with a poke, you will need a semi-dry hard brush made of bristles and paint.

When painting with a poke, the brush is held vertically. The shorter the bristle brush, the more expressive the texture of the print on the paper. Therefore, if you have a long brush, then trim the lint on it in advance. The brush should be large enough so that the “poke” turns out to be large.

For this type of painting we use thick paint, usually gouache paint. The brush should not be wet.

The adult prepares the basis - the background for the drawing, and the child fills it with “pokes” - brush marks. These can be different stories.

Examples of subjects for drawing with a poke:

• Prints of yellow or white color on a green background - dandelions in a meadow,
• White prints on the blue sky are fluffy clouds,
• The blue brush marks are raindrops coming from a cloud.
• Yellow, orange, red prints drawn by a child on a background of autumn trees prepared by you in advance are autumn foliage,
• If a child draws white prints on a winter background all over a sheet of paper, they will get fluffy snowflakes.
• Against the background of the city and the black sky using the poke technique, multi-colored fireworks in the sky look very beautiful
• On a blue background with dark brown tree trunks (the background is prepared in advance by an adult), white snow caps painted on the trees using the “poke” technique look great.

You can poke not only with a hard brush, but also with a stick to which a piece of foam rubber is attached with a strong thread.

Drawing with a poke is accessible even to the smallest children from one and a half years old.

3. 4. How to draw by dipping with babies from 1 to 3 years old

Dipping is a method of painting with a brush, with which you can get a rather interesting image without artistic skills. You will need paints - gouache. as well as a “Squirrel” brush for painting. The brush should be soft and leave a fairly large impression.

We put paint on the brush and touch the bristles of the brush to a sheet of paper. It turns out to be a fingerprint.

Using such prints you can get different images:

• traces of animals on a white background of snow in the forest,
• lights are burning in the house (we apply it - we draw “windows” on the outline of the house, prepared in advance by an adult),
• the lights are lit on the New Year tree (the green outline of the tree is prepared in advance by an adult),
• leaves on a tree branch (the adult draws the branch, the child only draws the leaves),
• bugs in the grass,
• patterns and ornaments (we decorate a postcard, the outline of a plate, cup, etc. with tassel prints)

3.5. Drawing with stamps and fingerprints with children 1 year and 2 years old

The stamp that leaves an imprint on the paper can be a foam sponge, a cotton swab, or the child’s own finger. Stamps of different shapes can also be cut from vegetables, such as potatoes or carrots. Lovely little stamps can be made from a regular dish sponge. With such stamps you can, for example, draw multi-colored Christmas tree decorations on the silhouette of a Christmas tree.

For this technique, you will need several saucers and several signets (each color is in its own saucer, into which its own signet or sponge is dipped).

What can you draw with stamps:

• multi-colored cubes (we make prints on paper with cubes from the designer-builder),
• rowan berries on a branch,
• beads,
• lights on the New Year tree,
• stars in the sky,
• caterpillar,
• apples on an apple tree,
• pattern on the outline of an object, postcard
• snowman.

In order for the child to enjoy drawing, it is very important that the adult prepares a colored background for his creativity in advance.

We have now looked at the simplest methods of drawing, which are accessible even to children of the second year of life.

Drawing vertical and horizontal lines, drawing circles and ovals It is much more difficult for a child, it requires good coordination of movements and our help in mastering them. So I'll talk about drawing these lines with little ones in great detail below in the next section.

Section 4. Drawing with kids by age:

from 1 year to 2 years

The age from 1 year to 2 years is usually called “astrakhan age”. How does it go and how does “drawing” develop in the smallest child? Why are these doodles valuable and why do children of all countries and peoples draw them at this age?

4. 1. How a one-year-old child masters a pencil,

or let's draw some doodles!

In the second year of life, the baby begins to hold a spoon, a stick and a pencil in his hands and move them along the paper. He discovers that the pencil is leaving a mark on the paper! This is a real discovery for a child! Of course. that the child does not yet know that he can draw with a pencil. He simply holds the pencil in his fist and moves it in different directions, sometimes making holes in the paper from his joyful efforts. Very often, little children use a pencil differently for the first time - having discovered that the pencil makes a mark on the paper, they begin to hit the sheet with all their strength - moving the entire pen from the elbow or even from the shoulder. They like both the mark of a pencil and the sound of a pencil hitting paper.

Then the child begins to study the pencil marks on the paper and try to make them different. At first you get a chaos of lines, a random pattern, and the paper almost always breaks. There is no need to scold for this - the child masters the space of a sheet of paper and gets to know the world.

Gradually, the child begins to move the pencil along the paper himself so that some of his movements become rhythmic and repeatable. The results are quite uniform lines in his “drawing”.

Helpful advice from experience: When drawing, a child aged 1 to 2 years goes beyond the boundaries of the sheet and cannot yet draw only on the sheet. Therefore, be sure to give your child a drawing space much larger than a sheet of paper (use oilcloth or other materials to protect the furniture).

Gradually, if the child has access to pencils, then when examining them he begins to make more orderly movements on the paper - back and forth, rotational lines across the entire sheet, spirals, circular skeins and lines. They are usually rhythmic, and this brings joy to the child and calms him down. This is a kind of rhythm of life and one’s actions for the baby, which is very favorable for him. After all, all of nature is a rhythm (the rhythm of changing seasons and parts of the day, ebbs and flows, rhythms of the Moon, etc.)

By about 2 years old, a child can scribble several sheets of paper in a row with a pencil using such rhythmic movements, without stopping from this process. He is very interested in marks on paper! Such “drawing” of a one-year-old child is not yet a visual activity, but it is serious preparation for it! Indeed, in such “doodles” coordinated rhythmic movements of the hand and visual control develop!

4. 2. At what age can you start giving a small child a pencil for scribbling?

Usually, in kindergartens and children's centers, pencils for “doodle drawing” begin to be given to children at about the age of one and a half years and older. At home you can give it earlier. But children must draw under the supervision of an adult, because... a pencil is an object with a sharp end. And from the age of 2 and later it will be possible to begin learning how to actually draw as a visual activity.

If a child at this age was not given pencils and paints for free use at home or in the studio, then the child usually develops drawing much later - from about 2.5 - 3 years old.

4. 3. How to help the development of “doodle drawing”?

Such “drawing” of scribbles does not require our attention, but only requires that we provide the baby with a large amount of paper, bright multi-colored pencils and do not scold, but encourage his interest in independent research!

But if we help the child, then the child will already learn very important new skills through doodle drawing experiments. which will be useful to him a little later in drawing.

Example 1. You can tell your child to hold a sheet of paper with his other hand when drawing a doodle and show how this is done.

Example 2. Around 2 years old, you can show how to hold a pencil in a pen.

Example 3. At any age, having examined a child’s drawing, you can find in it what it looks like from a real phenomenon or object - “Oh, what a rain you got - drip-drip - drip-drip!!!” (on vertical strokes). Our gentle help will push the child to a new stage in learning about the capabilities of a pencil.

4. 4. What to give a one and a half year old child - a pencil or a felt-tip pen?

In addition to pencils, you can give your child felt-tip pens. But I wouldn’t recommend limiting yourself to felt-tip pens, although it’s clear that children love them more. And that's why. Drawing with felt-tip pens is very easy, and the mark is very bright. And a pencil requires pressure when drawing - that is, the effort of a small hand. Therefore, pencil doodles are much more useful for the development of a child’s pen (fine motor skills) than felt-tip pens. So combine both!

This is important to know:

Section 5. Drawing with kids by age: we draw with children from 2 to 3 years old

In the third year of life We teach the child not just to move a pencil or brush over a sheet of paper, but also to draw a certain object - a path or a ball, to recognize and name what an adult has drawn.

What the child draws should be very good and familiar to him from his personal experience - something that he can touch, feel, examine, that he can act with HIMSELF. It is important that the child is familiar and aware of the details of the object, their shape and size. After all, we convey them in images on paper.

5. 1. What can you teach a 2-year-old child about drawing?

Children at this age can already begin to learn:

• understand that spots, lines, outlines can be used to depict well-known objects and phenomena on paper,
• correctly hold a pencil and felt-tip pen, brush with three fingers (from 2 years old),
• draw vertical lines, horizontal lines, intersecting lines, rhythmic strokes and spots, rings, rounded lines (prepare the child’s hand to depict round shapes),
• use visual materials correctly: 1) first soak the brush in paint - pick up paint, 2) remove excess paint on the edge of the jar, 3) after painting, rinse the brush in the jar and dry. 4) And only then put it in its place when it becomes dry.

A child can watch how an adult draws and imitate the same simple drawing (draw cucumbers in a jar - “grandmother’s pickles”, an apple for a hedgehog or a ball as a gift for a kitten).

At this age, kids are already beginning to determine “beautiful - ugly.” Use these words in your speech: “This is what a beautiful bouquet you and I got. Bright, elegant, festive!” Looking at pictures in books, also find beautiful details - a beautiful elegant dress of a doll or a cap from Parsley, tell your child why you think this picture is beautiful, what you admire in it: “Look what a beautiful cat! He put on his red boots, took a book and went on a visit. Cheerful, smiling!

This is important to know: at the age of 2 years, a child is not yet able to depict something himself according to plan. That is, the baby cannot yet set a goal for himself - to draw a sun - and fulfill this goal. He is still in the process, the result and goal are not important to him at all! So don’t be surprised if your baby just chirps what he just worked hard to draw.

There is no need to “analyze” and “divide” beauty into parts with a child of this age. Emotional admiration and holistic perception are very important. V. A. Sukhomlinsky wrote about this very accurately:

“Beauty itself affects the soul and does not require explanation. We admire the rose flower as if it were a single whole, and the beauty would be destroyed if we tore the petals off the flower and analyzed what the essence of beauty is.”

5. 2. Sequence of play activities for 2-year-old children to learn drawing

If your baby gets a pencil and a brush in his hands early enough, then by the age of 2 he has already passed the scribble stage and is ready to draw and depict the world in a drawing.

When drawing, it is very important for a child of two to two and a half years to experience tactile and motor sensations from materials and actions with them (sensory development of the baby), visual perception of color and shape, the joy of knowing the properties and qualities of materials and the shape of objects in the surrounding world! It is important for him to feel with his fingers a ball, a line, an angle, long and short, thick and thin, rough and smooth, bright and pale.

There is a certain sequence of increasing the complexity of tasks for a child from simple to complex. Let's look at it step by step.

Stage 1. We teach a 2-3 year old child to draw

vertical lines with a brush and pencil

Drawing vertical lines with a pencil and brush is the skill with which it is best to start teaching your child how to use a pencil and brush. Let me remind you that we begin to do this at the age of about 2 years.

THIS IS IMPORTANT TO KNOW AND CONSIDER: Vertical lines are the simplest type of image for a baby. This is explained by the fact that a child’s hand with a brush or pencil can easily fall down without much visual control. Horizontal and circular lines are much more difficult for a child. That's why we start with vertical lines.

What topics and plots on drawing vertical lines with a pencil and brush can we offer a child:

• We draw a fence for the cockerel (we will hide the cockerel from the fox),
• We draw how green grass grows in a meadow with movements from top to bottom,
• Rain drips from a cloud onto the meadow and flowers: drip-drip-drip-drip,
• We are drawing a railway for the train on which the bunny will come to visit us, you can draw with a group of children and connect all the drawings into a long common railway around the room or hall,
• Drops are falling - the icicle has melted in the spring: drip-drip-drip.
• Let's draw strings for the balloons,
• In autumn the leaves fall and fall to the ground - Oops! Fell! Oops! Fell! (draw a vertical line the trajectory of the leaf falling down)
• We draw the hedgehog's spines.
• The rabbits' cleaning brush broke. Let's help fix it :).

At the same time, at the first stage, we teach the child how to hold a brush and use paints correctly.

How to hold a brush correctly:

• We hold the brush immediately behind the metal tip (we explain to the child that this is such a beautiful shiny skirt from the Sorceress Brush, and we do not touch it).
• The brush is grabbed with three fingers. It is located between the thumb and middle finger, and is additionally held on top by the index finger.
• When drawing lines, the hand does not lie on the drawing, but is suspended (otherwise we can smear the paint on the paper with our hand and ruin both the drawing and the clothes).

Stage 2. Learning to draw horizontal lines

pencil and brush

Horizontal brush movements can be offered to a 2-3 year old child in the following scenarios:

• thread from a ball,
• paths and paths,
• the car is driving along the road,
• ribbons,
• horizontal steps ladder in the garden,
• spring streams flow,
• a lot of colored pencils are in a box
• planks and logs of the bridge across the river.
• an airfield with runways - horizontal lines.
• a multi-colored rug for a cat (the image of a cat is cut out in advance by an adult and pasted onto a striped rug that the child made).
• handkerchief (the child paints horizontal lines on a sheet of paper or a piece of fabric stretched over a frame).
• brush (brush bristles are drawn with lines, but in the horizontal direction)

Stage 3. Drawing with children 2-3 years old

circles and ovals

Circular hand movements are the most difficult type of lines and hand movements for a child. Typically, children are able to master circular movements from the age of 2.5 years, and before this age we do not offer them such tasks.

Ideas for game activities for learning to draw circles and ovals:

• balls for kittens (“wind the threads around a ball”),
• draw the sun and its rays,
• flowers (the adult draws the stems, and the child draws flowers on them),
• there is smoke coming from a chimney in the village,
• delicious sushi or bagels for grandma or another character,
• “stir the porridge” (Magpie – crow),
• snowball,
• snowman,
• balls,
• watch,
• wheels for cars, for toy carts,
• tumbler,
• chick,
• bugs in the grass.

IT IS IMPORTANT: When a child paints a round shape, you can remind him how to do it correctly. It’s as if we are “winding a thread around a ball.” This is necessary so that the baby learns to paint over the image using movements according to the shape of the object - in a circular manner.

THIS IS INTERESTING TO KNOW: In the third year of life, even children who have never been taught how to depict specific objects can draw them perfectly themselves! But on one condition - if they have all the visual materials in constant access and they often draw what and how they want. But this is observed in children 2-3 years old only in relation to those phenomena or objects that greatly amazed them. Such objects seem to be “before the eyes” of the child, so it is easier for him to depict them.

This is precisely what explains the fact that young children often draw the most ordinary and easy-to-depict objects much worse than very complex objects, but which are emotionally significant for them. Moreover, each child has “his own interest” in this regard: someone was captivated by the sight of an excavator on the street or a scuba diver, while another child was impressed by a thunderstorm or a scary big dog in the yard. There is no need to forbid a child to draw objects that are scary for him; on the contrary, let him draw them as much as he needs. Later, this event will no longer worry him so much and this topic will disappear from his drawings.

5. 3. Where to start learning to draw after 2 years - with drawing with pencils or with drawing with paints?

There is no consensus on the answers to this question.

1. Painting is easier for a child, since strong hand pressure is not needed and bright spots appear, which are always interesting to the child.
2. Having learned to hold a brush correctly and draw with it without excessive pressure, the child can easily transfer these skills to drawing with a pencil. It won't tear the paper, press it too hard or hold it incorrectly. The child will immediately begin to draw correctly with it.
3. If the baby is used to drawing with a pencil with strong hand pressure, then he will also begin to paint with a brush.
4. Drawing with pencils tires a child. Since in order to get a bright line, he needs to press it hard, and the child’s hand gets tired of this. Painting with paints does not require this. And the child enthusiastically draws with paints for 10 and 15 minutes.

T.S. Komarov and N.P. Sakulina has a different opinion. They believe that it is better to start with drawing with a pencil and first conduct 3-4 play sessions with the child on drawing with pencils. And after that, move on to painting with a brush and paints.

5. 4. How to teach a 2-3 year old child to hold a brush and pencil correctly when drawing

The brush and pencil should be held with three fingers, without squeezing too tightly. In this case, the brush or pencil is held between the thumb and middle fingers, and the index finger is on top.

Grip the pencil not too close to its lead (the distance from the lead to the fingers is approximately 2 cm).

The brush is held with your fingers just above the iron tip.

The brush is moved over a sheet of paper easily, freely, and rhythmically. The baby learns this in the third year of life.

Of course, you don’t need to explain this to the child verbally - you just need to show him how to hold it and help him if something doesn’t work out.

This correct grip of a pencil and brush is not immediately mastered by any child. Let's see how we can help him.

What to do if a child puts his middle finger up on a brush or pencil?

Answer: Using the “hand in hand” technique (take it - clasp the child’s hand in your hand) and lightly move his finger to the side.

What to do if a child does not allow you to take his hand in yours? And holds the brush only in his fist, refusing to hold it otherwise?

Answer: Try to gently hug the child's hand with a brush and draw interesting patterns with his hand with bright colors.

What to do if a 2-3 year old child cannot learn to hold a brush correctly in his hand?

Answer: The “Poke Drawing” technique helps develop the ability to correctly hold a pencil or brush for drawing. From the name of this method it is already clear that when drawing in this way, the movements of the hands are vertical from top to bottom. And the print is obtained instantly with one quick action of the hand.

Make a “poke” stick for your baby. To do this, wrap a piece of thin foam rubber around a regular stick (you can use an unsharpened pencil, flat on both sides). Secure with strong synthetic thread, wrapping it several times around the poke and securing with knots.

Show how to hold the wand - poke correctly (with three fingers wrapped around the wand). The kid dips the stick in paint and, placing it vertically on a sheet of paper, gets prints. This way you can draw dandelions, beads, fireworks, a clearing with flowers and much more.

Explain to your child that in order for the print to turn out beautiful, you need to hold the poke on the paper a little, and not immediately tear it away from it, press it slightly. Then you will get smooth round “balls”.

When the baby learns to draw easily with a stick - “poke”, give him cotton swabs. Let him draw flowers, berries, patterns with them.

So gradually the baby will learn the correct grip and after correctly gripping a cotton swab with his fingers, he will move on to correctly gripping a pencil and brush.

5.5. How to teach a 2 year old child to use paints correctly

Very often, young children forget the rules for using paints. For example, they forget to take it out of a jar and rub the paper without paint with a brush, surprised that no traces remain. Or they forget to remove excess paint from the bristles of the brush or put too much of it on and, as a result, get blots on the sheet. Therefore, the adult constantly helps the child and reminds him what to do next:

• First you need to moisten the brush in a jar of water,
• then carefully dip the entire brush into the paint can,
• after that, squeeze the bristles of the brush against the edge of the paint can,
• and now you can start drawing!

5. 5. What brushes and pencils should children of 2 years old use for drawing?

The baby's first brush should be short, but with a thick handle. It should also be a brush that draws thick, obvious lines. And only when the child masters painting with such a brush can he be given a thinner brush.

Large brushes (No. 10-14) are best suited for painting by children. They can be natural (eg pony, squirrel) or soft synthetic.

To paint a large surface (sky background, grass background), use wide flat flute brushes or sponges.

You can use a poke to paint with female bristle brushes. You already know how to make a poke stick.

A child's first pencil can be triangular, but this is not necessary. The main thing is that it must be large enough.

drawing lessons for 2 year old children

Tip 1. If you are going to give a drawing to a child, be sure to talk to him about it and get permission: “Do you want us to give your drawing to your grandmother?” and respect the child's opinion. If he does not want to give this drawing, then it is better to draw another as a gift. And keep the drawing your child loves at home.

Tip 2. If you want to show your child something again during the drawing process, then show it - demonstrate this element or method of drawing on your piece of paper, and not on the child’s sheet. Then on the children's worksheet there will be exactly the child's work without your intervention. Yes, not as beautiful as your example. But the child is learning! And he can’t immediately learn to do everything “perfectly”, and this is not necessary.

Tip 3. It is very important that during educational game drawing sessions there are no distracting objects near the baby. For example, if you need only 4 paints for drawing, we only prepare them and put them on the table, we put away the other paints so that the child does not see them and cannot reach them. If we only need one paint, then we take out exactly this color of paint, and do not put the rest on the table.

An abundance of objects only distracts a small child from his task.

A convenient option for nimble children - if you no longer need something, then after use we put this item (for example, a sponge) in an opaque closed plastic container so that the child will not be further distracted by it.

After all, everyone who has ever drawn with a small child knows how unstable his attention is - he saw a foreign object, got distracted and... forgot about drawing!

Tip 4. Do not rush to teach your child, from the age of 2, intentional imagery and “stamps and patterns” in it - “this is how you should draw a bunny, and this is how you should draw a horse!” Do as I do. This is correct, but the way you drew it is wrong.” This age has another more important task! And why did we suddenly decide that we have the only correct way of depicting? A child can invent his own way, and that’s wonderful!

Tip 5. Do not strive for the lines drawn by your baby to be identical and absolutely even. We draw, not draw :). Look around at the natural world - there are no identical lines in it. On the contrary, the line is alive in nature and in drawing. it conveys the artist’s mood, his way of perceiving the world. A line in a drawing can be calm or tense, cheerful or scared, sad or brave. Play up these moments and the different nature of the child’s resulting lines and shapes. For example, tell your child: “How brave your ball is! He’s just eager to fly into the sky, but a thread is barely holding him back. But this ball is timid, afraid to fly into the sky. What’s the third ball?”

5.7. Unusual drawing techniques for 2-year-old children: drawing with ink on fabric

Now there are a lot of interesting drawing techniques. Therefore, it is absolutely not necessary to limit yourself only to paints and pencils. I’ll tell you about one of the unusual drawing techniques with children 2-3 years old, because... I really love working with fabric.

Using fabric paints (an expensive option) or regular colored ink (an economical and affordable option), you can make your own individual doll textiles with a 2-year-old child or real fabric gifts for the child’s toys - for a bear, a bunny, and guests of the dollhouse. Or you can make something simple for your home - even real oven mitts or towels for your home. With us, everything in such creativity will be truly like that of designers. And this is exactly what kids like!

You will need for drawing with your baby:

1. colored ink or paint for painting on fabric, drying under an iron (instructions are given on the paint packaging),
2. old fabric of the shape and size you need (of course, you can use new fabric!),
3. cotton swabs or round foam stamps. You can make the stamps yourself by cutting out circles of different sizes from foam rubber and attaching them to the sticks with strong thread.

Drawing technique: poking

Pattern options:

• a) fill the entire surface of the fabric with multi-colored circles (you get “polka dot fabric”),
• b) place several dots of the same color in the center of the napkin. And after that, take paint of a different color and put one more dot in each corner of the handkerchief or napkin,
• c) draw a row of dots on each side of the napkin or towel or doll blanket.
• You can come up with your own patterns!

How to draw with ink with a 2-3 year old child:

- Step 1. Mandatory step! We put additional oilcloth on the table. And onto the oilcloth - ironed clean fabric of the required size.

For example, if we draw a doll tablecloth, then we need to take fabric of a size slightly larger than the size of the doll table available in your doll apartment. You can draw an apron for a doll. Or a handkerchief for a bear. A bow for a bunny or a mini bag for a doll.

— Step 2. Using a poke we draw a pattern of circles over the entire surface of the fabric. To do this, we dip our stamps or cotton swabs in colored ink (each color has its own stick) and poke it vertically onto the fabric. Fill the entire surface of the fabric. This is the first option, the simplest and most beloved by children - the option of obtaining fabric with multi-colored polka dots. We try to ensure that the entire surface of the fabric is covered with colored polka dots.

Next time you can offer your child a more complex pattern.

— Step 3. We are waiting for the pattern to dry completely (at this time there may be a nap, a walk or other interesting or everyday events).

— Step 4. Iron your piece with a hot iron. If you need to hem the edges, then hem them. All is ready! The resulting doll item (or maybe this is a real oven mitt for your kitchen!) can even be washed by hand, it will not fade.

— Step 5. The most important step for a child and therefore should not be skipped. We give our product to the person for whom it was intended. This means that if we made a tablecloth for dolls for a housewarming party, that means we are playing a housewarming party, welcoming guests and treating them. If we made a handkerchief for Mishutka, then we take the handkerchief to him. He thanks us. If we made an apron for a doll, it means we solemnly present her with our gift. The doll tries on the apron and thanks the child and then pretends to prepare something tasty for us and hands it to us.

Another one The technique of drawing with ink with children 2 years old is the blotography technique.

• Take a landscape sheet and fold it in half.
• Place a spot of paint in the middle of the fold, then fold the sheet in half and run your palm several times in different directions from the center of the fold.
• Open the sheet.
• What did you do? What does it look like? How can I finish painting this spot?

Section 6. Useful books on drawing with children from 1 to 3 years old

I have selected for this section those books that will be understandable to any family and that will be easy to use for drawing with a child.

1. Yanushko E.A. Drawing with young children. 1-3 years. Book+CD.
In the book you will find ideas and scenarios for play activities with young children on drawing in sections:

• Drawing with crayons
• Drawing with felt-tip pens and pencils
• Introduction to pencils and markers
• Drawing straight lines
• Drawing wavy lines
• Drawing broken lines
• Drawing dots
• Drawing circles
• Drawing Spirals
• Drawing Curly Lines
• Drawing different lines
• Independent drawing with pencils and
• felt-tip pens
• Drawing with paints
• Introduction to paints
• Sponge painting
• Finger painting
• Drawing with palms
• Painting with rollers
• Drawing with stamps
• Drawing using the dipping technique
• Drawing using brush strokes technique
• Drawing on top of a sketch

This book is very convenient both for teaching children in a circle and at home, because... gives a system of game tasks and many ideas. This book is actually a “ready-made tool”, a ready-made technology for conducting play activities with a child, which is very easy and simple to use in any family or in any children's center.

2. Albums for children by Daria Koldina “Game drawing” in three parts (Sfera publishing house). The album contains ready-made backgrounds and tasks for a child aged 2-3 years.

Previously, D. Koldina’s drawing albums from the series “Your Baby Can Do This” have also been produced and continue to be produced. For example, the album for children 1-3 years old “Fun Drawing” contains the following tasks and ready-made backgrounds:

• draw the rays of the sun,
• finish the paths,
• draw a fence near the hare's house to protect it from the fox,
• draw balloons
• draw grass and stairs,
• draw windows in the house.

Plus such albums - ready-made backgrounds, beautiful, you can take and use.

There is also a minus - one album includes tasks for completely different skills, so you can use the albums as additional material (so as not to draw the background yourself). But working on them in the sequence given in them is not convenient for your child. For many of the tasks, you also need to prepare the child’s hand with preliminary play exercises so that he can complete them (see above about effective planning of play drawing lessons, which takes into account the characteristics of 2-year-old children, this rule is not taken into account here).

3. “Album for children's creativity. Younger ages (1.5 - 3 years)" - the album also provides ready-made templates - backgrounds for drawing, and options for tasks. The pros and cons are the same as in previous albums. You yourself will have to think in what order and how best to offer tasks from the albums to your baby. You will need to figure out which tasks can be given right away, and before which ones you need to first carry out preparatory play exercises so that the child can cope with them.

If this article turned out to be useful and necessary for you, I would be grateful if you share it on social networks and write a comment. After all, there are many parents around us who want to engage in drawing with their baby, but simply don’t know where and how to start.

If you drew something interesting based on the materials in this article, I will be glad if you share your result with us.

It turns out that the human figure is drawn according to the rules. If you follow them, the drawing turns out to be quite reliable. How to teach a child to draw people and lay the foundations of artistic literacy?

Drawing a person's face

Ask a child what a person's head looks like, and he will answer that it is an oval.

• Draw an oval, slightly narrowed downwards.
• We mark the oval into four equal sectors (draw lines crosswise). Divide the horizontal line into 4 equal parts. Vertical (its lower part) into 5 parts.
• The pupils are drawn at the side points symmetrically from the center, directly on the horizontal line. The tip of the nose is the second line from the top, the mouth is the second line from the bottom. Teaching a child to draw a person is not so difficult - as you can see, so far everything is simple.
• Draw the upper eyelids and finish the lips. An equilateral triangle lies between the outer corners of the eyes and the center of the lower lip. The height of the ears is equal to the length of the nose. Mark the contours of the hairstyle.
• Finish drawing the eye - finish drawing the lower eyelid and the upper (its lower border). Draw some eyelashes.
• Eyebrows begin to be drawn at the level of the inner corner of the eye. The form is arbitrary. At the same stage, the width of the bridge of the nose is outlined. Shade the dark areas and leave the illuminated areas light.

How to teach a child to draw a person? Before teaching your child, practice yourself.

Change the shape of your mouth, eyebrows, chin. “Customize” the model in a new way. Make sure you get a new face each time. It is important for a child to understand the location and proportions of the parts of the face.

Remember, that:

• a woman's nose is smaller than a man's
• men's eyebrows are wider and lower
• women's lips are more voluminous
• the male chin is more angular and slightly larger
• women have thin necks
• the female eye is more expressive, this difference is conveyed by the eyelashes
• Women's upper eyelids are larger than men's
• a man's mouth is wider and his lips are narrower

How to teach children to draw a little person, their own age? The image of a child's face has its own differences:

• a child's neck is thinner than an adult's
• the face is smaller in relation to the head
• ears are disproportionately large
• round cheeks
• lips are fuller
• eyelashes are longer and eyebrows are thinner
• snub nose
• Create a drawing of a human figure

Modern canons of beauty require certain relationships between parts of the body: the human head (its height is the unit of measurement for artists) fits eight times the height of a person (from the top of the head to the floor).

How to teach a child to draw a human figure with a pencil? We will start with a simpler plot - a man stands straight, facing us. Let's mark the head at the top of the sheet.

Draw a straight line perpendicular to the floor, measuring the head 7 more times. Next, we make markings, marking the main milestones of the figure directly, counting units of measurement from the top of the head to a certain point:

• to the center of the chest: 2 units
• to the navel: 3 units
• to the pubic bone: 4 units
• to the middle of the thigh: 5 units
• to the center of the knee: 5 units and another part from the crown to the eyes
• to the bottom of the knee: 6 units
• to the middle of the shin: 7 units
• to the floor: 8 units

How to teach a child to draw a person? By studying the proportions, we found that the length of the torso holds 3 units, and the length of the legs holds 4 units. The width of the leg at the beginning of the thigh accommodates one unit.

The hands also correspond to the established proportions:

• from the line corresponding to the center of the chest, 3 three units are placed
• The width of a woman's shoulder and the width of her head are equal
• The width of a man's shoulder is equal to one unit

• Schematic figure of a man

  How to teach a child to draw a person who moves? Now that we are familiar with proportions, we can try to draw a diagram of a moving person.

  For the diagram of a person who is facing the artist, the conventional designation of the pelvis and torso is accepted - an equilateral trapezoid. Although this is not necessary. In order for female and male figures to differ, it should be remembered that:

  • a woman's trapezoid-torso is narrower than her trapezoid-pelvis
  • the trapezoid-torso in a man is wider than the trapezoid-pelvis

  The smaller bases of the trapezoids make up the waistband of the figure. A figure drawn with trapezoids looks like an hourglass.

  When a person is turned sideways, the torso and pelvis are indicated by ovals.

  When drawing schematic figures, follow some rules:

  • the elbow is at the level of the beginning of the thigh
  • arms and legs located closer to us partially overlap the ovals of the torso and pelvis
  • the oval, indicating the torso, is larger than the lower one, indicating the pelvis
  • when the body position changes, the angles between the lines change

  After the “skeleton” of the figure is ready, it is covered with muscles and clothing. They complete the details of the face and hairstyle, and add the necessary items: a bag, sports equipment, furniture.

  Before teaching a child to draw a person step by step, observe people in different situations. It would be nice to invite a model - a family member or a childhood playmate.

A child develops every minute from birth. A mother’s natural desire is to help the baby in his endeavors. Drawing is a great way to prepare your little one for preschool education.

When to start?

You can instill a love of drawing in babies as early as 9 months, when they are already sitting well and confidently, giving them a brush in their hands or creating wonderful drawings simply with their hands. At this age, the baby is very curious and explores the world with the help of tactile and taste buds. Bright jars of paint will undoubtedly attract his attention. At this age, he will not create an ideal landscape, but the abstraction will certainly be bright and will delight the baby. In this case, it is not the result that is important, but the process of introducing the child to paints, their consistency and capabilities. This will teach your child to draw like real artists do. From the age of one year, or even earlier, you can give him a brush, colored pencils or markers so that he can see the difference between colors.

The child begins to create images with meaning, close to the general understanding of the drawing itself, after two years, closer to three. To develop artistic abilities even earlier, direct interaction between parents and children is important. Mom should set an example, draw an object and voice out loud what she is doing and how. This will be a great start to teaching your child how to draw simple drawings.

First steps

When you decide to introduce your baby to colors, you need to be patient. To begin with, you will need good quality finger pigments. In any case, the baby will want to taste the new substance. Special finger paints are given a characteristic bitter taste so that you will not want to eat them. You can draw in a regular album, but it is better to unfold a large Whatman paper or get a roll of old wallpaper. The more space available for play, the less likely it is that surrounding objects will get dirty. It is better to dress the child in household items that you don’t mind getting smeared with paint.

After 3 years, children become even more interested in drawings; they crave a variety of materials - paints, pencils, markers, pens, crayons. It is necessary to give the little person the opportunity to develop his imagination, using various techniques. By combining a few simple elements, it is easy to teach a child to draw a person. As soon as he is able to draw on his own, the tasks need to be gradually made more difficult. All classes should be conducted in a playful way, but in no case in the form of training sessions! If the baby is not in the mood, you should not force him - this will only make him alienated from creativity.

Simple techniques for kids

To fully express emotions on paper, there are many different drawing techniques, the choice of which depends on the quality of the canvas and the shape of the brushes. In addition, the choice of tools determines how smoothly the paint will lie on the paper.

In addition to creative talents, drawing develops fine motor skills, speeds up the process of learning colors, develops horizons, sensory and eye skills. Don't overload your baby. A couple of flowers on the palm is enough for the first acquaintance with drawing.

It’s time to introduce a growing child to various techniques. At about a year old, the baby is ready to pick up a brush and make a variety of strokes, strokes, and lines. It's better to draw while playing. To do this, use cotton swabs, lids, sponges and other improvised materials with which you can truly show your imagination. There are a lot of options: spraying with a toothbrush, “stamping” with a foam sponge or champagne cork, using applique elements and plasticine.

Painting with paints

It is better to start drawing lessons with paints. They are bright, have an interesting consistency, and you can draw with them without much effort. Children's fine motor skills are still poorly developed, so they may not hold a brush or pencil, but create their masterpieces directly with their fingers.

Initially, after applying paint to the child’s palm, it is important to monitor his reaction. The task of parents is to help the child in an unfamiliar matter. First, palms and fingers leave imprints on whatman paper. Ideally, mom does the same. At first, three colors are enough. The lesson should end before the child gets bored, otherwise he may refuse to draw next time.

To develop motor skills, you can give your baby a cotton swab or sponge. It should be interesting for a child to dip an object into paint and get different prints. In addition, the process itself develops not only fine motor skills, but also concentration.

After one and a half years, acquaintance with figures, objects, and animals begins. By combining elementary circles, squares and triangles, you can teach your child to draw simple drawings step by step, for example, a man or animal faces.

Children's creativity with pencils

It is necessary to use a pencil to get acquainted with new drawing techniques - shading and outlining figures. If the brush falls down with any pressure, then drawing with a pencil requires effort.

The main condition for the development of creativity of a novice artist is to create optimal conditions. You can’t interfere, you need to give the child freedom of action. Basically, the subject of creativity depends on his age. Younger children try to imitate the sun and flowers. Older children try to draw princesses or cars. From the age of 5, full-fledged children's pictures already appear, the child begins to pay attention to details. He draws not only the main characters, but also the background.

Fine art for kids

Getting a 2-year-old interested is quite simple, just like teaching a 3-year-old to draw. A personal example is needed. It is not enough to explain to a child how something is drawn, it is important to show it. The ideal time for classes is the first half of the day, when he does not want to sleep, eats and is still full of energy. The themes for the drawing are first determined by the mother. Most often these are ordinary lines and toys. The child will trace the figures with interest or connect them using shading. In this way, he gets acquainted with the figures and trains to control the pencil to the fullest, concentrating on his own actions.

As soon as the initial stage is completed, the simplest elements learned are used to create full-fledged simple drawings. Soft triangular pencils are suitable for learning. They contribute to the formation of the correct grip of an object in the hand. If you give your child bright markers at first, he may later refuse to draw with pencils.

Basic techniques for children

How to teach a child to draw simple drawings step by step? To begin with, it is important to know how they are created correctly.

For a child to enjoy drawing geometric shapes, he must be interested in the task itself. If you simply say “connect the dots,” there is a high probability of receiving a refusal. But “help the little dot catch up with the big one” or “connect the dot-mom, the dot-dad and the dot-baby” are much more interesting. The child will be more willing to take on this “mission.”

In addition to the correct drawing technique, you need to pay attention to painting. For the first tests, shading is suitable. It is imperative to remind the child not to go beyond the boundaries of the drawing. It is important that the mother herself shows how the color and appearance of the drawn object changes if the pencil is pressed harder or weaker. You can compare the drawings and ask your child to explain what the difference is to make sure that he understands the essence of the rules and the meaning of painting.

Drawing animals and humans

If parents expect to immediately see a full-fledged portrait, then they will be disappointed. Initially, these may be schematic images of lines and geometric shapes, perhaps not even connected to each other. The easiest way to teach a child to draw a person step by step is to use lines and a circle. When creating the desired image on paper, it is necessary to explain to the baby which part of the body is conveyed by one or another line. If an activity is difficult for a child, it is worth inviting him to cope with this task through joint efforts.

Creative activities with preschoolers

By the age of five, a child’s imagination is actively developing. This gives him the opportunity to express his fantasies. Parents need to know how to teach their child to draw at the age of 4 and convey their wishes on a piece of paper. Acting as mentors, they must help children open up. At this stage the child learns:

• rules for mixing basic colors (red, yellow, blue);
• ways to sketch the background;
• criteria for combining several materials;
• technique for making drawings realistic.

You should not dictate your rules to your child. It is better to follow the flight of his imagination, offering your ideas in the process. It is advisable to be close to your son or daughter when creating the first drawings, so that the children can voice their actions. Mom should ask leading questions that will help reveal the image and may require additional touches. In this unobtrusive way, the child’s imaginative thinking develops, his vocabulary increases, and his oratory abilities emerge.

Full drawings

Having understood the colors and shapes, the child will be able to draw independently. He will be ready to depict not just figures, but entire artistic compositions. If the mother regularly worked with the baby and was able to teach a 4-year-old child to draw, as a rule, he will then become familiar with various techniques on his own initiative. The main thing is to fuel his interest in this activity. The child must use various elements, details, sketch the background, learn to select shades, use several techniques in one drawing (prints with palms and cotton swabs, contours of tree leaves and splashes). The result should be a full-fledged drawing with meaning. Let it be simple, and let the objects be distorted or poorly painted. The main thing is the effort and development of the baby.

Most likely, the first drawings that a mother gradually taught a 4-year-old child to draw, as well as the subsequent ones, will be dedicated to nature or family members. Later, the child himself will choose a theme for his creativity, trying to depict everything he sees around him.

What do children's paintings say?

A child’s drawings, starting from the age of 4, convey his inner world. Children themselves are very impressionable. It is in the drawings that their main experiences are reflected. Psychologists often turn to this technique, associated with drawing, to understand the mental state of young patients. After all, the main thing is not how to teach a 5-year-old child to draw step by step, but how to understand the meaning of his drawings. When embodying his fantasies on paper, nothing limits the baby; he can express what he is not able to say in words or show with gestures.

It is worth paying attention to what colors and shades the child usually chooses and what techniques he uses. It is important to determine the location of the main characters, their mood, and what impression is left of the drawing as a whole. All this will help you understand the child’s emotions.

Art studios

You should not burden the little ones with additional activities. The attention of parents at home is quite enough. Only after 3-4 years can you send your child to an art studio or club if the child has a craving for creativity.

At this age, he will be interested in studying along with other children; he can imitate them and try to keep up. Classes are conducted in a playful way and do not overload the child’s body at all, but only have a positive effect on his psychological state. Following the advice of leaders, parents should help their child develop his abilities at home.

To achieve good results in the upbringing and development of a child, you need to offer him activities to his liking. One of the activities that all children love to do is drawing. By inviting a child to draw, we stimulate his cognitive interest, mental development, fine motor skills, and creative thinking. From our article you will learn what simple ways there are for kids to learn drawing.

Types of drawing

Learning to draw is an educational activity through which a child can improve his innate drawing skills. And adults - parents or teachers - should help him master the necessary skills. Methods of teaching fine arts should pursue the goal of not only teaching how to properly hold a pencil or brush in your hand, but also, first of all, cultivating aesthetic feelings, namely the ability to see beauty and create it yourself, depict your thoughts, and bring your ideas to life.

When teaching drawing, take into account the age characteristics of the child

"Advice. When teaching children to draw, one should select methods that would arouse interest in drawing and evoke an emotional response in the child’s soul.”

When starting to draw with children, you need to take into account their age characteristics and select the appropriate types of drawing. Young children have not yet developed many skills. Younger preschoolers cannot yet correctly hold a pencil and brush in their hand, monitor the force of pressure they put on a sheet of paper, correctly position images on a sheet of paper, not go beyond the contours when painting what they have drawn, etc. Based on these reasons, it is best to start drawing classes for kids of the simplest types, skills and techniques.

What you need to teach your child to do first:

• hold a pencil (brush, felt-tip pen) correctly in your hand
• depict the simplest lines and shapes, “sticks” and “paths”
• do not go beyond the contours of the drawing when coloring it

When the baby masters this initial arsenal of drawing skills, he will be able to put his ideas on paper, while feeling more confident.

It’s easy to implement ideas if you master the simplest types of drawing

Show your child the simplest types of drawing:

1. "Drawing in the air." One of the first drawing lessons can be a conventional drawing of lines and geometric shapes with a hand in the air. This can be done using your index finger or your entire palm. This type of initial drawing prepares the child to begin to depict something on paper. The same movements can be done on a straight, smooth surface, such as a table.
2. "Collaborative drawing." The next stage in teaching children to draw is when an adult guides the child’s hand with a pencil along the paper. The child sees how the image is created, and the adult comments on what happens. With the help of this type of drawing, the child learns to hold a pencil correctly, press it onto the paper and, ultimately, draw simple lines and shapes.
3. "Completing the details." This is drawing based on a workpiece, where part of the pattern is drawn (like a mirror image) or points for connection. The child must complete the details that are missing in the drawing by analogy with the image on the right or left, or connect the dots, thus obtaining a drawing. It’s better when the picture has a plot and the adult tells something exciting in accordance with the intended plot.
4. “I draw myself.” Having practiced all the basic types of drawing, the child will be ready to draw something himself. And an adult can help him by suggesting a plot for a drawing and giving him a task.

Image techniques

Introduce your child to those image techniques that are easy to master.

If you continue to show your child drawing techniques that are easy to master, this will significantly enrich his visual activity. This way the child will master what he could not do before. Make sure that your baby’s hand is strong enough that he can hold a pencil firmly enough and quite consciously repeat the strokes he sees. After that show him several image techniques:

• drawing lines (straight, wavy)
• shading with short straight strokes
• shading with long vertical and horizontal strokes
• shading with oblique tear-off and continuous strokes
• shading using extending strokes
• image of round and rectangular objects
• dab (brush)
• painting (pencil, brush).

It’s good when an adult doesn’t just show a child how to trace paper with a pencil or brush, but accompanies the creative process with stories that he understands. For example, when drawing different lines, an adult suggests drawing a path, a stick, etc. And a wavy line is already a river or sea, smoke from a house chimney, a forest path. It is important that the images are familiar to the child.

Watch the video in which an art teacher talks about where to start when teaching kids to draw.

How to teach a child to draw step by step

If you decide to teach your child to draw, be prepared for the fact that you will have to practice a lot and regularly. This is how skills are developed. Parents will have to draw pictures themselves, because the baby needs something to focus on. The child will look at the drawings you made and try to repeat them.

"Advice. There is no need to simplify the task too much by drawing objects for the child schematically. If you are drawing a house, then let it be surrounded by a dense forest, flowers, and funny animals. The drawing should be bright and attract the child.”

In step-by-step learning to draw, it is important to voice the plot of the image. In this case, not only fairy tales, but also poems are well suited. This way you will also contribute to the development of your baby’s speech skills.

Showing how the simplest lines and geometric shapes are drawn, gradually transform them before the child’s eyes. So from a circle you will get the sun, from a triangle - the roof of the house, and short vertical lines will become grass. This is the basic principle of step-by-step drawing.

See how you can easily show your child how to draw a chicken:

Know that children quickly get bored with simple drawing. Don’t be lazy to suggest and show your child new techniques, offer new images to reinforce the skill of step-by-step drawing. An interested child will be able to draw better and better.

Pick up a pencil

Teach your child how to use a pencil correctly

To properly organize your child’s learning to draw with a pencil, follow these recommendations:

1. Teach your child first to hold a pencil in his hand in the correct position, and then directly to learning to draw.
2. Help first: guide the baby's hand with your hand.
3. Start learning with straight and wavy lines, simple shapes, gradually “revitalizing” what you have drawn.
4. As soon as your child masters drawing simple large shapes, gradually complicate the tasks by inviting him to draw small details: a man near the house or fruits on a tree.

"Advice. While drawing, teach your child to recognize colors, select and combine them correctly.”

Remember that to consolidate the skill you need to regularly repeat exercises with a pencil.

Painting with paints

When starting to introduce your child to paints, choose watercolor and gouache.

Tips for parents on teaching their child to work with paints:

1. When starting to introduce your child to paints, choose watercolor and gouache. These paints are safe for children and are easy to wash.
2. Provide your baby with brushes of different sizes, which should be made of soft bristles. Brushes made from pony and squirrel hair are good - they are soft and inexpensive.
3. Stock up on thick drawing paper. The A-3 sheet format is ideal for the creativity of preschoolers.
4. Buy your baby a special sippy cup for washing brushes. Such a glass will not stain your beautiful carpet if your baby accidentally pushes it off the table.
5. It's good to have a palette for mixing colors. At first, a regular plastic plate will do.
6. Start the first lesson by talking about paints and brushes. It is better if it is a fairy tale or even a small theatrical performance.
7. Tell about flowers, supporting the story with visual materials (colorful pictures). Tell us clearly what color is used to paint.
8. Teach your child to hold a brush and use it: hold it in your hand, pick up paint, apply it to paper, rinse the brush, blot it. First, let the baby move a dry brush over the paper, practice the degree of pressure and the accuracy of the movements.
9. Start painting using one color at first. Let the child draw lines - straight and wavy, strokes, simple shapes with closed contours that can be colored. Show how to do dipping.
10. Learn in stages. When the baby masters drawing with one color, add another, then another.

Gradually, the child will learn to draw much more accurately.

When the child draws in two colors, you will see that the drawings are not clear and accurate. It’s okay, because the little artist has not yet fully consolidated the skill of depicting clear and neat lines. Multitasking is not yet possible for a child: he must learn to work with two colors, not to smear, not to go beyond the outline, to wash the brush on time, not to pour water. Gradually, the child will learn to do everything much more carefully.

“If an experienced teacher guides learning to draw, he will contribute to the child’s development of observation, creative imagination, and accuracy.”

The drawings of three-year-olds are chaotic, since they are not yet capable of drawing objects. Do not require careful drawing and maximum similarity to real objects: all this will be gradually formed if the baby exercises regularly. To maintain a child’s interest in drawing, you need to support him in every possible way and create positive situations related to drawing. Do not scold your child if he stains his clothes or carpet with paint. Clean up the clutter together.

It’s good when the baby attends a kindergarten or a child development center, where he will be taught to draw simple objects, closed lines, and color an outline.

“It is important that the child does not get upset if the intended drawing does not work out. Mark what turned out well in the drawing, praise the child, and comfort him if necessary. Offer to draw on this topic again.”

Now you know simple ways to teach children to draw. Get your child interested in drawing and create conditions for his creative development. This way you will reinforce your child’s interest in drawing with positive emotions, and soon he will delight you with his masterpieces.

Many people think that drawing is an artistic “science” that not everyone can master. In fact, a person’s desire for art awakens in early childhood, but without a certain development of abilities, it weakens over the years.

So is it possible to teach a child to draw, especially if he was born unable to do so? When to start the educational process and where exactly? Finally, should I send my child to an art school or a drawing club in the future?

At what age do children start drawing?

Children begin to take an interest in drawing quite early, following the example of their parents and brothers and sisters writing something on paper. However, in a general sense, the craving for drawing manifests itself in children aged 1 to 1.5 years.

And if at first the child’s drawings look more like scribbles, then closer to 5 years (and up to 15 years) an actively developing imagination helps children create real masterpieces on paper.

The benefits of drawing for child development

It is almost impossible to evaluate all the positive aspects of drawing in childhood - its influence on children is so enormous that the development of the child’s entire personality falls under the “sight.”

In a general sense, drawing:

• forms in the child a passionate sense of beauty and a desire to create something beautiful;
• develops the baby’s mind and imagination and helps to master new “tools” for exploring the world: felt-tip pens, brushes, pencils;
• The child learns to convey surrounding objects through his pictures and at the same time is engaged in useful work.

Where to start?

The first drawing lessons can take place already when the baby learns to hold objects in his hands. At this point, mom can hand him pencils and help him draw a simple line on the paper.

Let it not be completely even and even “slide” from the album onto the table. It is much more important that the child understands: his “manipulations” can subsequently turn into something truly beautiful!

Pencils or markers?

You should not give pencils to children without adult supervision, so that they do not accidentally get hurt by them. However, under watchful supervision, children can draw with felt-tip pens and a brush - especially since they make their first attempts at “pen” using coloring books.

Who would refuse to draw a character from their favorite book, the finished image of which lies in front of you on paper? It’s hard to make a mistake and do something wrong here!

Which ones exactly?

Some people find that pencils or thin felt-tip pens are not very convenient to use. At least for children two years old: their stylus often breaks and the rod is pressed inward.

However, only by giving your child the opportunity to choose something of his own from a variety of options will you help him find his favorite “tool” for drawing.

Paints or crayons?

A two-year-old child can draw with almost anything: with finger paints and thick felt-tip pens - on paper, with bright crayons - directly on the asphalt or board. It is generally most convenient to draw last, since they are soft and leave clear lines behind them.

Mastering gouache and paint will be a little more difficult, because they imply not only the desire to sculpt something, but also a certain creative technique.

Miracle of technology!

Recently, stores have begun to sell some amazing things for drawing: a set for creativity with glitter on velvet paper or amazing felt-tip pens that a child can blow into. And it's truly wonderful!

Drawing lessons for kids from 2 to 4 years old

Teaching a child who is 2-3 years old to draw begins with mastering the simplest techniques. At the same time, it is very important to be attentive to the child’s needs to create and not to ridicule his diligent scratching of a pencil on paper.

The condescending attitude of adults towards children's drawings leads to the fact that the child may consider drawing an empty activity and abandon it.

What will you need?

Take bright colors, paper (the larger the sheets, the better), good brushes, a soft sponge and a glass of water. It is best to dress in something that you don’t mind getting dirty - even a purchased apron for drawing will not save you from stains when the young artist is only 3-4 years old!

How much time should you spend studying?

You need to teach your child to draw for 10-20 minutes, 2-3 times a week, so that he doesn’t get bored, but also doesn’t end up losing his desire for creativity.

Techniques for developing drawing skills

the freedom of action

To conduct this lesson, take glossy white paper and watercolor paints. Let your little one dip the brush into the paint can and drip it directly onto the paper! The whimsical patterns with which it spreads will look like magical pictures!

Sponge but not Bob

For this lesson, take gouache and a large sheet of paper. Have your child dip their hand in the paint and squeeze it out a little. Let him leave a “signature” on the sheet with his hand, and use a sponge rolled into a roll to make the final artistic “touches” nearby.

You can draw on paper in a similar way with your fingers: dilute the gouache with water so that it turns into “sour cream” and pour it onto a plate. Using a wide brush, apply paint to your child’s fingers and ask them to leave their autograph on the sheet.

Wet style

A thick and large sheet of paper needs to be wetted under water for a couple of seconds. Now put it on a tray and invite your child to scribble watercolors on it. Considering the condition of the surface, the paint will spread on it, mix and create amazing “wet” patterns.

Scarlet flower

To teach a child to draw something really memorable, you can do this: dip the child’s finger in green and, holding his hand, draw a stem with him on the paper. The palm print will act as a bud, and the end result will be a wonderful flower!

This technique can be successfully used to depict other objects. Try using it to depict a tree or a cheerful giraffe with your baby.

Drawing lessons for children over 4 years old

The age of four is a fertile time for mastering more complex drawing techniques. Already during this period it is worth sending your child to an art school, but if for some reason this does not work out, you can teach him to draw yourself.

It's more fun together

Get ready for the fact that you will have to do this together, since it is from your drawings that he will begin to take the right example. Try to draw brightly, specifically and not be distracted by too small details.

Tell me everything

Accompany the drawing process with a fascinating story so that the child understands what you are doing.

Master the shapes

The most important thing is to teach your child to draw geometric shapes that will become the basis of the desired images, regardless of whether it is an animal or a person.

How to draw a tree?

At 4 years old, you need to start with something simple: with an ordinary green Christmas tree, which is cold in winter.

Below we attach step-by-step instructions for creating an “artistic” tree and a picture so that the child understands the principle of operation.

1. Draw a line on the sheet leading from top to bottom. We draw slightly curved lines from it, which will be the branches of our Christmas tree.
2. Now we will try to “outline” these lines with needles: as shown in the figure. When all the branches become fluffy, paint the Christmas tree green.

Birch and other types of trees can be depicted in a similar way.

Learn to draw animals

Drawing a hedgehog

1. Draw the hedgehog's quills on the paper using a zigzag, and then add his ears.

1. Connect them with an oval to form a head.

1. Draw the hedgehog's nose, eyes and mouth and give the hedgehog a belly.

1. Draw his legs and arms.

1. All that remains is to draw the needles as shown in the picture. The hedgehog is ready!

Draw a donkey

Drawing a donkey on paper is also much easier than you thought.

We perform the following steps step by step:

1. We draw a simple oval on paper, then divide it with a line into two parts, in the upper of which we draw the donkey’s eye, and in the lower – the nostrils and mouth.
2. Now we attach the donkey’s ears by drawing two “cucumbers” on the sheet. Just below the head we draw another oval - this will be the donkey’s body, which we will connect to the head with two “neck” lines.
3. Now you need to add legs to the animal, drawing them at the bottom of the body, and a real tail, placing it on the side.

The donkey is ready! All that remains is to color it as your imagination dictates!

Drawing a cat and a dog

You can draw a cat and a dog using the same method. The step-by-step technique for depicting a cat is shown in the following figure:

The main thing is to let your child understand that drawing animals is not difficult if you take geometric shapes as a basis (in this case, circles and semicircles) and show a little imagination.

You can draw a dog in the same way:

How to draw a person?

How to teach a child to draw a man? Not as easy as you want, but not as difficult as it seems. Begin!

Diagram of a full-length image of a man

1. Draw an oval and a rectangle on the sheet (as shown in the picture), and then connect them with a line to each other. We finish drawing the legs and arms with fingers.

2. Then add two lines to the arms to make them appear thicker. Let's do the same with the legs. Now let’s draw the man’s ears (two semicircles on the sides) and make a hairstyle.

3. A person’s face deserves special attention, but drawing his features - mouth, nose and eyebrows - will be easy if you look at the drawing first. Add a neck to the person and draw a shirt with a collar.

5. Draw his trousers and boots, draw his palms. All that remains is to erase the auxiliary lines, outline the contours and color the person.

Drawing a human figure in motion and a face

In a similar way, you can depict a person in motion or draw his portrait. The step-by-step process is detailed in the following picture:

Drawing circle: when and why?

By the age of 6, a preschooler who is actively involved in drawing already knows how to create with paints and pencils. If his drawings differ significantly from the creativity of his peers (for the better), send the preschooler to a club so that an experienced teacher can continue to work with him.

To choose a good club, just find out if there is a private school or a creative arts center in your area. Very often, ordinary art teachers conduct similar classes right in schools (without age restrictions).

Individual lessons

If you want your child to create professionally at the age of 6, send him to individual lessons. Their advantages are that:

• the teacher visits you at a convenient time;
• you choose the program in which the child will study (for example, drawing portraits);
• Lessons are paid upon completion of the lesson.

Individual lessons also have disadvantages: they are not cheap, and finding a good teacher can be difficult.

Summing up

Any way of teaching a child to draw is good - both at 1 year old and at 5 years old, because it develops imagination and allows you to spend a little more time with the baby.

At the same time, it is not so important whether you strictly follow a certain methodology or independently develop an individual artistic program. It is important that these activities interest the child and are varied.

And even if your child does not grow up to be a real artist in the future, drawing lessons will still have a beneficial effect on his development and correct perception of the world around him.