About the great benefits of drawing for development. Our parental task is to instill interest in him and provide regular activities with various drawing media. One of the options for involving a child in drawing is coloring. Today, publishers offer a huge variety of coloring books. I have already bought many interesting copies. But, to be honest, I’m in no hurry to give them to my two-year-old Yana to be torn to pieces. For the first coloring, I selected monosyllabic drawings from the Internet, adapted several spreads of well-known drawings by Fiona Watt and printed them out. You can download them here:

Printing coloring pages yourself is not only more economical, but also convenient. I often demonstrate to Yana various techniques coloring, in which we color not just one picture together, but each of our own copies. We also often color the same pictures in different colors, this makes it possible to compare different color schemes. For example, in the first photo of this post, I recommended the colors for the top picture, and Yana chose the colors for the bottom picture herself. Moreover, when asked “which option does she like best,” she did not hesitate to show the bottom picture with brown and gray-brown shades 😀 .

Top pictures watercolor, bottom left gouache, bottom right plasticine

We paint with everything (watercolor, gouache, crayons, felt-tip pens, plasticine), but the most attractive result is obtained using gouache.

Giraffes in watercolors and giraffes in felt-tip pens

For everyone who introduces children to creativity and has not yet purchased from Fix Price a stack of creative albums from Clever, I recommend you visit urgently. I’m bringing the ignorant up to date, scribbles and drawings by Fiona Watt from Clever publishing are very interesting and popular for preschoolers from 3 years old. They contain a variety of tasks for coloring and completing elements. I’ve been eyeing the Big Sketchbook from this series for a long time (in it 96 pages, and its price is about 325 rubles). It turned out that At Fix Price, these albums are three times thinner - 32 pages, but the price is 7 times less - 43 rubles each. In the end, buying three albums cost me 129 rubles, and the total number of pages is the same as that of the Big Kalyakalka - 96 ! At the same time, the quality and format are absolutely the same. Owners of a large kalakalka do not make sense to buy small ones, since their content partially overlaps.

UPDATE 01/22/2017: I’ll correct myself a little, Clever’s albums are excellent, but this series didn’t work for Yana even at three years old. Most assignments are for 4-5 years. We postponed it for another year because Yana found them too complicated and she refused to draw with them.

Several photo albums from Fix Price:

The task is to draw grains for the chickens and color them. Yana performed at 2 years old.
The task is to draw dogs with different fur. The poodle has curls, the dachshund has spots, the diver has wavy hair. Yana was coloring when she was 2 years old. Considering the size of the pictures, the complexity of the tasks can be compared with the copybooks for preparing the hand for writing. They are usually designed for 5-6 years.

In conclusion

This is my first post about drawing practice for kids, because after getting acquainted with the ideas of free drawing, I tried to interfere minimally with Yana’s drawing and progress in drawing was very slow. Now I have optimized my approach, we are making big changes. In the near future I will show off our masterpieces and share tips.

Below is my wish list of coloring books for little ones with thick colored outlines. As I purchase them, I will add reviews of them to this post.

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We started drawing at about 1 year old. At first Antoshka did this finger paints in the bathroom. A couple of months later, my husband made an easel, and my son became acquainted with brushes and gouache.

Basically, the child draws whatever he wants with the materials he wants or that I provide. Free drawing should be practiced as often as possible. But don't stop there.

In this article I will share drawing ideas with children aged 1 - 3 years old, I will talk about various techniques for drawing with paints, pencils and other materials, even shaving foam.

You can also download coloring pages for little ones and finger painting templates.

I won’t talk at length about the benefits of drawing with children. I think you already know very well that it develops the child’s imagination, creativity, improves hand coordination and fine motor skills fingers.

How to draw with a child 1-3 years old

In the article about applications I talked about the book E.A. Yanushko. This author also has a book "Drawing with children early age» (Labyrinth). This is an excellent teaching tool for parents and teachers, and it also comes with a CD with demonstration materials.

The book presents methodology for conducting drawing classes with children 1 – 3 years old. I take many ideas from her.

Before you start drawing with your child, here are a few simple tips from me:

• Show your child various drawing techniques (pokes, strokes, stamping, etc.) gradually, starting with the simplest ones.
• I highly recommend buying or making your own easel for painting. It is relevant as soon as the child learns to walk.
• Draw as often as possible.
• Use a variety of drawing materials.
• Try to immediately teach your child to hold a brush and pencil correctly. But if the child stubbornly refuses to do this, do not insist.
• Give your child maximum freedom. Let the child draw what he wants and how he wants. Never demand that he draw the way you want. Below I will talk about various drawing techniques with children, but if the child refuses to do something, do not insist.

Don't correct your child! Let him draw purple skies and red grass. So what if cows don't fly and there are no fences on the rainbow? Your child's mind is still free from cliches. He is a true creator.

The more different art materials you use, the better.

You need to start with the easiest to learn (for example, finger paints), eventually reaching regular pencils.

We draw on:

• plain paper
• old wallpaper,
• easel,
• magnetic board,
• plaster figures for coloring,
• wood, plywood,
• fabrics,
• tiles in the bathroom and in the bath itself.

For drawing with children 1 – 3 years old, you can use the following materials:

• Finger paint;
• gouache, watercolor (and, accordingly, brushes of different sizes);
• felt-tip pens (on water based and ordinary);
• crayons (wax and regular);
• wax pencils;
• dry pastel;
• pencils (preferably soft ones);
• gel and ballpoint pens;
• foam rubber, sponges;
• cotton swabs and cotton wool;
• stamps;
• semolina;
• shaving foam.

You will also need water glass(preferably sippy cup) and palette for mixing colors.

As I already said, we started painting with finger paints around the age of 1 year. And they did it in the bathroom. Then we switched to paper.

Finger paint are safe and do not require the use of water. You can replace them with gouache.

The simplest thing you can do is draw dots with your fingers:

• grains for birds, peas;
• apples, berries, cones, balls for the Christmas tree;
• watermelon seeds;
• raindrops, snow, animal tracks;
• giraffe spots, ladybug, leopard.

You can draw dots with your fingers using ready-made templates.

DOWNLOAD TEMPLATES for finger painting in one file.

And of course, let the baby smear the paint all over the sheet with his fingers and palms.

Drawing techniques with paints and pencils

All drawing techniques involve the use of different materials depending on the age and capabilities of the child. We give paints, crayons, felt-tip pens to very young children, and pencils, etc. to older children.

I list all the techniques in order of increasing difficulty.

Free drawing

My son calls this kind of drawing “scribbles”.

We introduce the child to drawing materials and give him the opportunity to experiment. At the same time, there is no need to give any tasks to draw something specific.

Practice free drawing as often as possible at any age of the child. It perfectly develops imagination.

Painting a sheet

We give the child paints, crayons, etc. and we suggest drawing:

• grass for the cow,
• water for fish,
• sand, snow.

The child needs to paint over the sheet, and not draw individual blades of grass, etc. Even a one-year-old can cope with this task.

It's also great to use here paint rollers- simple or curly.

Shading an element

We draw a base (small images of animals and various objects) and ask the child to hide them by painting them over:

• hide the mouse, bunny, fish, bug;
• hide the moon and stars, the sun, the car.

With very young children it is interesting to do this with a sponge; with children over 2 years old it is useful to paint over elements with pencils.

Drawing points

Pre-draw the basis for the drawing - a bird that the child will feed, a bush on which berries will grow, etc.

Invite your child to draw: grains, berries, snow, raindrops, a bagel with poppy seeds, freckles, polka dots on a dress.

• Direct: rays of the sun, stems of flowers, tops of carrots, fence, cage, path, rails, paws of bugs, needles of a cactus, teeth of a comb.
• Wavy: boat waves, worms, octopus legs, car tracks, hair.
• Broken: slides, a fence, icicles, a road with turns, thorns for a hedgehog.

Draw circles, ovals

Balls, apples, candies, Christmas decorations, beads, air balloons, rowan, berries, bubbles, eggs, cones.

Drawing Spirals

Invite your child to draw: a snail's house, smoke, a bee's flight, curls, sheep's rings, threads.

Finishing the drawing

Antoshka really likes to play this game: I say that one boy was drawing different figures, but didn’t finish it, and I suggest my son finish it. He does this with great pleasure. This is how we finish drawing:

• geometric figures;
• I draw a road (a broken line) and Antoshka repairs it,
• any simple and understandable drawings.

Drawing simple stories

This is the most difficult stage in mastering drawing. Here the child combines different techniques drawing according to instructions from an adult.

Take turns asking your child to draw different elements that will eventually turn into something specific. But give your child as much freedom as possible.

The purpose of such drawing is to show the child how the finished image appears step by step.

The child can hold the sponge with his hands or with a regular clothespin.

Simple sponge painting:

• waves, sand, snowy landscape, grass, paths - by smearing;
• snow, leaves - poked;
• we hide bugs, fish, etc. - by painting.

Draw the shape you want on the sponge - a triangle, a tree, or even letters. Cut it out. Invite your child to dip a sponge in gouache and make an imprint on paper.

The child applies shaving foam to the template with a brush. This way you can cover a Christmas tree, a house with snow, make a snowdrift for a bear, etc.

Foam can also be applied to rubber toys. This is great fun for kids.

I talked about drawing with semolina in articles about, as well as about. There are two ways to draw with semolina:

1 way. You need to pour a little semolina onto a surface with sides: a tray, a baking sheet, a lid from under big box for shoes. And then the child draws simple images with a finger or a brush - waves, paths, circles, etc., makes fingerprints or various objects.

Method 2. Print out a coloring book for the little ones. Invite your child to apply glue to the image and sprinkle it with semolina. It will be more like coloring with semolina. But you can simply give your child a brush with glue and let him randomly apply it to the sheet, and then pour in semolina, shake it and see what pattern he gets.

I paint semolina with gouache. Instead of semolina, you can use sand for children's creativity.

On the Internet, I have repeatedly come across the opinion that children should not be given coloring books before school. They seem to be in the way creative development child. Some parents are simply afraid to give coloring books to their children, while others have a real phobia.

I I don't see anything wrong with coloring books. But rather only benefit if used in moderation. And give the main priority to free drawing, which I mentioned above.

Offer your kids simple coloring books that use 1-2 colors. From 1.5 years old, you can try coloring books that involve the use of several colors. But all the same, the elements in them must be large. And you need to paint them, of course.

But it’s better to color small images with pencils or felt-tip pens, because the child simply won’t have the patience for large ones.

At 1–2 years old, children are also interested in water coloring pages(Labyrinth, My-shop).

There are ready-made regular coloring books on sale (Labyrinth, My-shop).

You can also DOWNLOAD COLORING BOOKS for kids in one file.

Stencils

Cut out shapes in the sheet that could be painted in one color. You can paint over both the figure itself and the background.

There is a large selection of inexpensive stencils on sale (Labyrinth, My-shop).

A child may also be interested in tracing and coloring various objects and his own hand.

All children draw with stamps with great pleasure. You can make them yourself. For example, from sponges for washing dishes, vegetables. You can use improvised objects and toys as stamps.

Or you can buy ready-made stamps or even entire drawing sets (Labyrinth, My-shop).

I really hope you found this article helpful. Draw with your child and then he will also love this activity. Which drawing method does your child like best?

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