If your baby is often upset that he can’t draw, or the drawing doesn’t turn out the way he expected, encourage your baby not to draw according to a model, but to use alternative drawing techniques that will captivate him and become excellent motivators for creativity!
We offer you 20 options for non-traditional drawing techniques for a child that will reveal his individuality!
PASSEPARTOU
In this drawing technique for children, the child's careless "doodles" are inserted into a sheet with a cut-out shape of an animal, tree, flower, etc. You need to cut out a template, for example, in the shape of a daisy and place it on top of the baby’s daub. This way, an unremarkable drawing will become part of a special idea.
FROTTAGE
A sheet of paper should be placed on a flat relief object and its surface should be shaded with a colored pencil. You will get a beautiful picture-print, with the silhouette of the substrate object! Children who have tried to draw on a table from relief wood probably know that sometimes this technique is “connected” to the drawing completely by accident.
AIR COLORS
To prepare this paint, mix in a small bowl:
- 250 g flour, half a teaspoon of soda, half a teaspoon of citric acid
- a couple of drops of food coloring
- 1 tbsp. l salt
Drawing technique:
- Pour a little water into the bowl with the above ingredients to make the paint the desired thickness.
- Apply paint to thick cardboard with a brush or cotton swabs.
- Place the drawing in the microwave for 20 - 30 seconds until the mixture dries. Drying time depends on how thick your paint is and what layer of paint you have applied to the drawing.
Make sure that the cardboard does not contain synthetic materials or films. Choose either the most common version, or take colored thick paper.
MARBLE PAPER
For this drawing technique you will need:
- shaving foam
- watercolor paints or food coloring
- flatware
- paper
- scraper
Work plan:
- Apply a thick layer of shaving foam to any flat utensil.
- Make a saturated solution of each paint color using water - dilute the dyes to a liquid state.
- Take an eyedropper (or a simple brush) and add a few drops of paint different shades onto a layer of foam.
- Use a brush to spread the paint over the surface, trying to do it so that you get beautiful lines and shapes. This stage can be considered the most creative and interesting!
- Place a clean sheet of paper on top of this patterned foam.
- Place the sheet on a flat surface and remove any foam from it with a piece of cardboard.
- Under the foam you can see unusual marble patterns that look like the Northern Lights! Now you need to put the picture in a dry place for 2 hours so that it dries.
SOAP PAINTING
Mix paints with a few drops of regular liquid soap, then brush onto paper. You will see small soap bubbles appearing from the paint, which create a beautiful texture to the design.
BLOCKGRAPHY
To perform this technique, you can use a straw to blow out the blot, or you can do without it. Ask your child to drop paint on a piece of paper, then tilt it in different directions, and then add something to the blot to get a beautiful drawing.
You can also make a blot, and then fold the sheet in half so that it is imprinted on the other half. Then let your child imagine what the blot looks like and ask him to complete the necessary elements.
DRAWING ON A WET SURFACE
Moisten a piece of paper with water and leave it to dry for literally half a minute, and then start painting on it with watercolors. The paints will spread in different directions and you will get very original stains with sagging.
BUNCH OF PENCILS
Carefully gather 5-6 colored pencils into a bunch, tie them with adhesive tape and let your child draw.
CRAYONS AND STARCH
Make a starch solution and moisten it Blank sheet paper. Give the little one some crayons and let him try to draw on such a slippery base. Use the primary colors of the crayons and they will give new shades on paper!
MULTI-COLORED GLUE
Prepare several empty containers and pour PVA glue into them, then drop a couple of drops of paint of a different color into each glass. Use this colored glue to draw whatever your heart desires! Drawings using the “drip technique” are especially beautiful.
DRAWING WITH SALT
Draw with a simple pencil sketch on paper, run a wet brush along the outline of the drawing, and then sprinkle generously with salt. After 10 minutes, shake off the salt and add the missing elements. Using salt you can beautifully draw butterflies, birds, and snow.
DRAWING WITH WAX
On a white sheet of paper, use a wax candle to draw the outlines of people, trees or flowers. As your child begins to color the drawing with watercolors, they will “create” beautiful white images. Can also be coated multi-colored paint the entire sheet, dry it, then rub it generously with wax.
Apply a thick layer of dark gouache over the wax and let it dry. After this, you can “scratch” it with a thin needle or wooden stick. bright drawing on a dark background.
FOAM OR SPONGE
By moistening a sponge or piece of foam rubber with gouache, the baby can draw the crown of trees, flowers, winter landscapes and much more.
DRAWING WITH COTTON SWIPS
Tie a bunch of cotton swabs with adhesive tape or an elastic band, invite the child to dip it in paint and draw clouds, trees, snowdrifts, snow. The missing details can be completed with a simple brush.
DRAWING WITH DOTS
First, the baby must draw the outline of the object, and then fill its entire background with multi-colored dots, using paint or a felt-tip pen. To make the drawing colorful, you need to alternate the colors of the dots.
SPLASH PAINTING
Take a dry toothbrush and brush it with gouache. Don't overdo it, there shouldn't be a lot of paint, but it should be thick. Place the sheet of paper on the table, lean over it, hold a brush with paint in one hand, and scrape the bristles in your direction with the other. The bristles should be turned down towards the design, otherwise you and your child risk splashing the whole house.
If you put several colors on a brush, you can create a fireworks display. Yellow and orange colors are suitable for autumn-themed drawings, and blue colors will help create a beautiful winter landscape.
DRAWING WITH PRINTS
Take an apple, cut it in half and create beautiful drawings, dipping the halves into paint. For this unconventional drawing technique, you can use other interesting “stamps” that you can find at home!
DRAWING WITH BALLS
For this technique you will need: box lid, balls, paint, paper, brushes.
Place a sheet of paper on the bottom of a flat box (or any other type of paper) and generously spray it with watercolor paint. Then throw in a few glass marbles (or ball bearings) and shake the box a little so that they roll, thereby mixing the colored splashes on the sheet and creating a pattern.
DRAWING WITH FEET
This drawing technique for children is very relaxing and develops the child’s imagination! Tape a piece of paper to the floor. Place a pencil between your baby's toes and ask him to draw something.
You can also paint with paints, soaking your toes in gouache and creating beautiful prints on paper.
Non-traditional drawing technique at school. Master class “We made compote”
The master class is designed for children in grades 2-3.
Purpose: such works can decorate exhibitions children's creativity, or as a gift for Mother's Day.
Step-by-step work process
Our work will look like this:
For work we need: white thick sheet of paper or white cardboard, paints ( gouache is better), brushes, jar of water, scissors, cotton buds, beautiful paper napkin, narrow braid 50 cm, 2-3 apples, newspaper, pencil.
First, let's figure out which jar our compote will be in. To do this, take a newspaper or just a sheet of paper and bend it in half. Let's draw half a jar from the center of the sheet.
We cut out the template that we like best. We place it on a sheet of paper in the middle and circle it.
Now we take gouache paints. You can mix red, yellow and white. To get the color of compote.
Cut our apples in half. It's better to do this for adults. (While the children are coming up with the shape of the jar and preparing the template, I cut them 2-3 apples.)
Now comes the fun part. We paint the cut of the apples with gouache paints. Take as little water as possible. The paints should be as thick as sour cream. You can mix different colors, like apples.
We turn the apple over with paint onto the drawing and press it. If it doesn't work out the first time, it doesn't matter. The same apple can be used several times. We paint it and print it again. It turns out to be a print.
Oksana Deneko
Probably all children really like it paint. And they especially welcome non-traditional drawing methods. But this plays into our hands, because any drawing helps development of creative thinking, imagination, creativity, expansion of ideas about the world around us. It also develops fine motor skills of the hand, trains the muscles of the hand, and prepares the hand for writing.
Shaving foam - very unusual surface for drawing. The paint on it can be stretched and twisted beautiful lines, curls and other patterns. Sometimes it resembles paper quilling. Each drawing turns out unique! At drawing the principle of monotype is used on foam - drawing using unique prints. We use dried paper in classes, for wrapping gifts, and even for further drawing!
Materials and tools:
a flat tray, lid or plate, or just a sheet of A-4 format.
shaving foam,
We take ANY paint!
a thin brush or toothpicks, combs, foam swabs, brushes of different sizes.
Ruler (we took a plastic one) or strips of thick cardboard.
a pack of napkins, you can put a basin with water to rinse the ruler.
And also ENTHUSIASM, GOOD MOOD, CREATIVITY!
First, let's prepare the work surface)
Apply a little foam to a tray or A-4 sheet.
Use a ruler or a strip of cardboard to level and smooth the foam over the surface.
Armed with ANY COLOR, let's begin paint…
We painted today only with brushes, it turned out like this...
When the image is ready, attach a sheet of paper to it and press it so that the image is printed on the sheet, but do not press the sheet too hard.
Careful not to smudge the design, remove the paper and lay it foam side up for a few minutes to allow the paint to absorb.
Remove any remaining foam from the drawing by running a ruler or cardboard over it.
Let the drawing dry.
And this is what we ended up with...
And with the remaining foam you can come up with a lot of other things) For example, make something out of it
Or you can invite your child to play with multi-colored foam - touch it with your palm and remove your hand, touch it again, scoop the foam into your palm and clench your hand into a fist, stretch it or pass it between your fingers.
Relaxation of fingers and palms, unusual the child is provided with pleasant sensory sensations that are beneficial for development, as well as positive emotions
Role drawing in the formation of speech in a child is great. As we adults know, stimulation of fine motor skills, namely finger movement hands: fast, slow, conscious, leads to an increase and intensification of speech activity. The more attention is paid to this during the period when the child begins to speak, the faster the process of speech production goes.
Drawing in turn performs two at once functions: aesthetic perception world through drawing and increased speech activity.
In addition, it is very pleasant to see joyful and desired fruits enlightenment: skills drawing, joy in the eyes of a child, the immense happiness that he receives from his creativity.
All children love to draw, but the monotony gets boring. What new types of drawing can be offered to a child today?
Almost all children have a tendency to creative activities. However, children quickly become bored with everything ordinary and traditional. After drawing with colored pencils or gouache for a week or two, the child loses interest in repetitive activities. And parents begin to sound the alarm that their child lacks a creative streak and shows no interest in either drawing or modeling. Learn new types of drawing for children and see the new talents of your son or daughter!
To interest the baby in crafts, parents need to be creative and turn each activity into a unique, exciting activity. At the same time, it is not at all necessary to purchase expensive materials and tools! You can get by with very inexpensive things.
Secrets of the grattage technique
Drawing using the grattage technique is considered a very interesting and at the same time simple activity. This activity can be done with children from 3 years old. Bright gouache paints are applied randomly to the album sheet. The paint layer should be quite dense. Do not skimp on colors, let hot scarlet, orange and yellow tones bloom on a white background in combination with ultramarine, bright greens and rich lilac.
Then the sheet is covered with a thick layer of paraffin, and then with thick black ink. When the ink is completely dry, sit down with your child and begin to scratch the surface of the sheet with a sharp object, such as a feather or a toothpick. To the delight of the child, rainbow patterns will appear through the black surface. You can scratch a simple pattern on a sheet of paper in the form of stripes, zigzags and dots, or you can depict fish, animals, a house, flowers.
What is monotype
Monotype is also a very exciting business. Take a sheet of paper, fold it in half and draw a conventional landscape in watercolor on one side. It is not necessary to draw all the details, just draw at the top blue sky, a strip of land, a couple of trees, grass, flowers. Let the image be blurry and unclear.
Then, while the drawing is still wet, press the landscape piece of paper onto the clean side. When you unfold the sheet again, you will see that a mirror image of your landscape has been created on the second part of the sheet. Now you can add clarity to the picture with light strokes, and your landscape is ready! This is the secret of the monotype technique.
Drawings using nature
Drawing on stones is accessible to children from 2-3 years old. Moreover, this activity requires almost no costs. Collect regular flat pebbles from the street, stock up on gouache paints, brushes, clear varnish and go! It's easy to turn ordinary rocks into fun trinkets to play with in the yard. Draw on stone beautiful flower, a bright rose, a colorful fish, a typewriter, or even just an elegant pattern. Then coat the stones with varnish to seal the paint.
Such stones will be an excellent decor for a room or bathroom. They will remind you of summer, and after many years they will turn into a family heirloom.
In autumn, imprinting fallen leaves on paper will become especially relevant. Collect leaves from different trees, cover them with paints, and for a better effect you can paint the leaf not with one color, but with several. And then apply the leaves together with the backing one by one to the surface of the paper. The result will be something unusual and beautiful piece.
Other drawing techniques
For babies and older children, you can shift it; this technique is not only interesting, but also useful for the psyche. You can read more about it in a separate article.
We all know that drawing is one of children's favorite activities.
Babies pick up pencils and start tracing them on paper at the age of 12 months.
Let the pencil still slip out of your hands, and it will still pass a lot of time before a child draws his first doodles - this is the first step towards self-expression.
Painting classes can be taught to children as young as one year old.
Some parents start even earlier: this makes sense. How younger child, the easier it is to deal with it. He accepts new things more easily and readily. How older child, the more it is life experience, the more stable the stereotype of behavior and habit.
Children who started drawing early do not have the “fear of a white sheet of paper” in the future. In addition, it has been proven that everything we learned in early childhood stays with a person for life.
This does not mean at all that a child who starts drawing early will become an artist, he simply will not be afraid of this type of activity. Bright colors They diversify a child’s life and satisfy his need for pleasant sensations. Finally, painting is one of the forms of objective activity of a child, and objective activity is absolutely necessary for the baby for physical, mental and mental development.
When using a brush and paints, the fingers work - it develops fine motor skills hands, which means speech development improves. The baby’s speech becomes more active because another (and what an interesting!) reason for verbal communication between a child and an adult appears. A drawing is a mirror of your baby’s feelings, maturity, and development. From masterpieces little artist you can learn a lot.
The main thing for us, parents, is to learn to “read” his messages. Psychologists believe that children's drawings are of great interest for understanding their feelings and personal characteristics, expressing relationships with family and the outside world.
If we want to understand what a child wants to “say” with his drawings, then, first of all, we must give him creative freedom. Your little creator should always have paper and pencil at hand.
The drawing should not be criticized; on the contrary, the child should be praised. Together with him, select the best drawings, in his opinion, hang them somewhere in the apartment, arrange an exhibition.
Invite to your art gallery grandmothers or acquaintances, perhaps their visit and delight will inspire your child to create new masterpieces.
Children reflect their inner world, so be sure to look closely at how your baby draws, listen to what the little artist tells you about his paintings. This may help understand his problems.
Your baby draws what he sees around him, what excites him. The drawing is a projection of the child’s experiences and feelings.
For example, when drawing a person, a child depicts himself, and when drawing a family (even if it is a family of some animals), he assumes his own family.
It is important to notice in time what and how the baby draws. You should especially pay attention to what colors your child chooses to create his masterpieces. For example, the predominance of black and gray colors may speak of timidity, shyness and hidden fears. Orange and red colors tell us about the child's sensitivity and need for warmth.
Children who feel the need for safety and security most often use green color. But you should only sound the alarm if most of the picture is painted in an “alarming” color.
After all, noticing what exists in reality, the child draws an orange sun and a black tree trunk.
Blotography
It consists of teaching children how to make blots (black and multi-colored). Then a 3-year-old child can look at them and see images, objects or individual details.
You will need gouache, a thick brush and paper (preferably 1/2 or 1/4 sheet).
Fold a piece of paper in half and unfold it again. On one half, ask your child to put a few bold blots, strokes or curls. Now fold the sheet in half again and press firmly with your palm. Carefully unfold the sheet. You will see a bizarre pattern: “What does your or my blot look like?”, “Who or what does it remind you of?” - these questions are very useful, because... develop thinking and imagination. After this, without forcing the child, but by showing him, we recommend moving on to the next stage - tracing or finishing the blots. The result can be a whole plot.
Bitmap
Children like everything unconventional. Drawing with dots is an unusual technique in this case. To implement this, you can take a felt-tip pen, a pencil or an ordinary ear cleaning stick. But the best thing to do is dot drawings with paints.
You will need a separate stick for each color. Using this technique, lilac or mimosa flowers are produced beautifully. Draw branch lines with a felt-tip pen. And make clusters of flowers with chopsticks. But this is already aerobatics! Drawing simpler things - flowers and berries (the stems can be drawn with a felt-tip pen) will bring no less pleasure to your child. Or you can cut out a dress (scarf, tablecloth, mittens) from paper and decorate it with an ornament of dots.
Foam drawings
For some reason, we all tend to think that if we paint with paints, we must also use a brush. Not always. Foam rubber can come to the rescue. We advise you to make a variety of small geometric figures out of it, and then attach them with thin wire to a stick or pencil (not sharpened). The tool is already ready. It turns out to be a large brush without hairs. The stick is held strictly perpendicular to the surface of the sheet, without tilting. Now you can dip it in paint and use stamps to draw red triangles, yellow circles, green squares (all foam rubber, unlike cotton wool, washes well). At first, children will draw chaotically geometric figures. And then offer to make simple ornaments out of them - first from one type of figure, then from two, three.
The mark left by such a “brush” can imitate animal fur, tree crowns, or snow. A stick with foam rubber is dipped in paint (the main thing is that there is not a large amount of water), and the baby begins to cover the sheet with traces of it. Let him first simply understand that with the help of a “magic wand” you can quickly and easily draw marks.
Then draw tree branches or a bush with a black felt-tip pen, and let the child finish painting the foliage with green, yellow, red or orange paint. Draw a simple outline of a bunny or fox with a pencil, let the baby “trample” it with his “magic tool” - the bunny and fox will turn out fluffy, their fur will seem so disheveled that the baby will certainly want to touch it.
It is extremely interesting to work in this technique with a stencil. Cut out an image in the middle of a thick sheet of cardboard, such as the head of a tiger cub or a bear. Attach the cardboard with the cut out stencil to the landscape sheet and invite the child to “trample” the part of the landscape sheet that is visible through the hole in the stencil.
After the child has done this, let the work dry, then use a brush to draw eyes, a mouth, a mustache, and a stripe “Curly” figure
A very interesting way of drawing with a pencil, felt-tip pen, or ballpoint pen using pre-made stencils. Stencils can be of two types - some are cut inside the sheet, others are made from the sheet and separated from it. It is easier for young children to trace the figures embossed inside the sheet. Many squares and rulers have such patterns.
Having attached them to the album sheet, you ask the child to trace the shapes. Then you remove the stencil and, together with it, figure out how you can complete this or that shape.
Children 4.5-5 years old will be able to trace single stencils cut out of cardboard. This is more difficult, because the hand does not hold well on the outside of the pattern and the baby draws extra lines. But you can interest children in the content of stencils: for boys, these are silhouettes of cars and airplanes, for girls, animals, nesting dolls, bows and houses. Having traced the patterns, children can paint over their images with felt-tip pens and paints, and hatch them with various lines: straight, wavy, zigzag, with loops, wavy with sharp peaks. Stencils can help you create your own drawings; they will complement what the child himself has created.
You can start a game: the child circles various objects, and you guess what they are. Firstly, not all objects can be circled. By finding them, the baby will understand the difference between three-dimensional and flat objects or things that have at least one flat side and those that do not. Secondly, it is not easy to circle this or that object on your own, without the help of an adult. And thirdly, in this game the roles change: the baby puzzles the parents, and the adults try to find the answer. All this pleases the child, providing him with a surge of creative energy.
Mysterious drawings
Mysterious drawings can be obtained as follows. Take cardboard measuring approximately 20x20 cm and fold it in half. Then a wool blend or wool thread about 30 cm long, its end 8 - 10 cm is dipped in thick paint and clamped inside the cardboard. You should then move this thread inside the cardboard, and then take it out and open the cardboard. The result is a chaotic image, which is examined, outlined and completed by adults and children. It is extremely useful to give titles to the resulting images. This complex mental and verbal work, combined with visual work, will contribute to the intellectual development of children preschool age.
Drawing with crayons
Preschoolers love variety. These opportunities are provided to us by ordinary crayons, sanguine, and charcoal. Smooth asphalt, porcelain, ceramic tiles, stones - this is the base on which chalk and charcoal fit well. Thus, asphalt is conducive to a succinct depiction of subjects. They (if there is no rain) can be developed the next day. And then compose stories based on the plots. And on ceramic tiles(which are sometimes leftovers stored somewhere in the pantry) we recommend drawing patterns and small objects with crayons or charcoal. Large stones (such as boulders) are asked to be decorated with the image of an animal’s head or a tree stump. It depends on what or who the stone resembles in shape.
Drawing with foam
Take paints, shampoo, water, a glass and a straw for cocktails. And bubble a lot of colored bubbles in your glass.
And then, together with the children, apply the paper to the multi-colored foam, and flowers, fireworks, ice cream and much more are imprinted there that you and your baby can see.
Magic drawing method
This method is implemented like this. Angle wax candle An image is drawn on white paper (a Christmas tree, a house, or maybe a whole plot). Then, using a brush, or better yet, cotton wool or foam rubber, the paint is applied on top of the entire image. Due to the fact that the paint does not stick to the bold image like a candle, the drawing seems to suddenly appear before the children’s eyes, manifesting itself. You can get the same effect by first drawing with office glue or a piece of laundry soap. In this case, the selection of the background to the subject plays an important role. For example, it is better to paint a snowman drawn with a candle with blue paint, and a boat with green paint. There is no need to worry if candles or soap start to crumble while drawing. It depends on their quality.
Photocopy
Draw a picture with a candle on a white sheet. Paint over with black ink.
Painting small stones
Of course, most often the child draws tiles on a plane, on paper, less often on asphalt. big stones. A flat image of a house, trees, cars, animals on paper is not as attractive as creating three-dimensional creations of your own. In this regard, sea pebbles are ideally used. They are smooth, small and have different shapes.
The very shape of the pebble will sometimes tell the child what image to create in this case (and sometimes adults will help the kids). It is better to paint one pebble as a frog, another as a bug, and the third will produce a wonderful fungus. Bright, thick paint is applied to the pebble - and the image is ready. It’s better to finish it like this: after the pebble has dried, cover it with colorless varnish. In this case, a voluminous beetle or frog made by children’s hands shines and shimmers brightly. This toy will take part in independent children's games more than once and bring considerable benefit to its owner.
Strange patterns
Take whatman paper and a small orange (tangerine) or a ball, pour a little paint of different colors onto the sheet and roll the ball along the sheet in different directions. Then “revive” what was received.
Finger painting method
Here's another way to depict the world: fingers, palm, fist, foot, and maybe chin, nose. Not everyone will take such a statement seriously. Where is the line between pranks and drawing? Why should we draw only with a brush or felt-tip pen? After all, a hand or individual fingers are such a help. Moreover, the index finger right hand The child listens better than a pencil. Well, what if the pencil breaks, the brush wears out, the markers run out - but you still want to draw.
There is another reason: sometimes the theme simply asks for a child’s palm or finger. For example, a child will be better able to draw a tree with his hands than with other tools. With his finger he will draw out the trunk and branches, then (if it’s autumn) apply inner side hands yellow, green, orange paints and draws a crimson-mahogany tree on top. It’s also good to mix several colors and shades. For example, first you apply yellow paint, and then brown or orange, it turns out fluffy!
It’s good if we teach children to use their fingers rationally: not just one index finger, but by everyone.
Monotopy method
A few words about this, unfortunately, rarely used method. And in vain. Because it contains a lot of tempting things for preschoolers. In short, this is an image on cellophane, which is then transferred to paper. On smooth cellophane I paint with paint using a brush, or a match with cotton wool, or my finger (no uniformity needed). The paint should be thick and bright. And immediately, before the paint has dried, they turn the cellophane over with the image down onto white thick paper and, as it were, blot the drawing, and then lift it up. This results in two drawings. Sometimes the image remains on cellophane, sometimes on paper.
Drawing under the film
Squeeze the paint onto cardboard or paper, put a film on top and smooth it with cotton wool, then sharply pull the film away. This way, sunset, sea, fire come out well...
Drawing on wet paper
Until recently, it was believed that painting could only be done on dry paper, because the paint was sufficiently diluted with water. But there are a number of objects, subjects, images that are better to draw on damp paper. Clarity and vagueness are needed, for example, if a child wants to depict the following themes: “City in the fog,” “I had dreams,” “It’s raining,” “City at night,” “Flowers behind the curtain,” etc. You need to teach your preschooler to make the paper a little damp. If the paper is too wet, the drawing may not work. Therefore, it is recommended to wet clean water a lump of cotton wool, squeeze it out and rub it either over the entire sheet of paper, or (if required) only over a separate part. And the paper is ready to produce unclear images.
Drawing with postcards
Almost every home has a lot of old postcards. Go through old postcards with your children and teach them how to cut out necessary images and stick it to the place, in the plot. A bright factory image of objects and phenomena will give even the simplest unpretentious drawing a completely decoration. It is sometimes difficult for a three-, four-, or even five-year-old child to draw a dog and a beetle. You can take them ready-made, and let him finish drawing the sun and rain for the dog and the bug and be very happy. Or if you and your children cut it out of a postcard and stick it on fairytale house with his grandmother in the window, then the preschooler, relying on his imagination, knowledge of fairy tales and visual skills, will undoubtedly finish drawing something for him.
Mirror copy
Another method is based on the fact that a silhouette drawn with paints can be easily imprinted when a sheet of paper is placed on it. The sequence of work is as follows: the sheet is folded in half, unfolded, and the surface is slightly moistened with water. On one half of the sheet, the silhouette of an object or part of a symmetrical image is drawn with paints, for example, half a Christmas tree, half a flower, half a house. The sheet is folded and pressed firmly with your hand. By unfolding the sheet, you will see a whole image or two objects (if you drew a whole object on one half). Many kids like this method; for children, it seems like a miracle that the same image appears on the second half of the sheet. When the work dries, the details can be completed with felt-tip pens, pencils or paints.
Whose trace
Another way of drawing, or rather, printing, is based on the ability of many objects to leave colorful imprints on paper. You take a potato, cut it in half and from one half cut out a square, triangle, diamond, flower or something interesting. Moreover, one side of the print must be flat for application to the paper, and you will hold the other with your hand. Then you or your child dip such a signet in paint (preferably gouache) and apply it to the paper. As you might guess, an imprint remains. With the help of these signets you can make beads, ornaments, patterns, and mosaics.
Not only potatoes can serve as stamps, but also bottle caps, felt-tip pen caps, buttons, small boxes, etc.
You can try to depict something based on the principle of construction from various parts. For example, a car (reel - wheels, cubes - body and window); castle of a sorceress, animals, etc.
Salty drawings
What if you paint with glue and sprinkle salt on top of these areas? Then you will get amazing snow pictures. They will look more impressive if they are done on blue, blue, pink colored paper. Try it, it's very exciting! Tooth paint
Or let's create winter landscapes in another way - painting with toothpaste. First, the child must be explained that this is a creative search, and this use of toothpaste does not give him the right to squeeze it out on the floor, shelves and tables. Together with your child, outline with a pencil the light contours of trees, houses, and snowdrifts. Slowly squeezing toothpaste, walk it along all the outlined contours. Such work must be dried and it is better not to put it in a folder along with other drawings. For creativity, it is best to use a domestic product - it dries faster.
Drawing with relief
Flour is added to the paint and applied to the sheet. The cardboard strip is cut into teeth and we draw patterns along and across. From a dried leaf, cut out a shape, such as a vase. Let's draw flowers on a white sheet of paper and then glue them on. You can also draw with a stick, toothpick, fork, or match.
Glue painting
Squeeze glue onto the image on paper, let it dry, and then paint over it to create a relief.
Like an artist to an artist
But this is a completely unusual path! You need to get a large sheet of paper. You ask the baby to lie down on such a sheet and circle it. Of course, it is better for the whole thing to fit in (this can be achieved by gluing two or three sheets of whatman paper) or, as a last resort, for the torso and head to fit. You have traced the baby, and now it’s his time - let him try to decorate the silhouette: draw eyes, mouth, hair, jewelry, clothes. If the child is small, then do this work together - the child suggests, and you, admiring his imagination, draw with him.
Rainy fantasies
Another option unconventional drawing is as follows: during rain or snowfall, you boldly open the window and expose a sheet of paper for less than a minute, holding it horizontally. You probably guessed that drops of rain or snow will remain on the sheet. And this is what we sought. Now traces of bad weather can be outlined and turned into fairy creatures. They can also be connected to each other by guessing what kind of image they get.
Drawing by points
An adult prepares a drawing diagram in advance, placing contour points. The child is told: “Do you want to be surprised? Then connect the dots with each other in order!” Offer to complete the resulting outline, color it, come up with a plot and a name.
Picture from both sides
You will need a cardboard sheet, a wide brush, paper clips, and colored pencils. First you need to paint a sheet of cardboard with any paint (an old cardboard folder will do). Immediately, before the paint has dried, place a sheet of plain white paper (preferably writing paper) on top. Attach the paper with paper clips and have the child draw something with a colored pencil on a white sheet. If you want, you can use coloring, but the drawing should be simple - some object. When the drawing is finished, unfasten and remove the paper. Look what happened - on the side that was pressed to the folder, you got a color picture with a convex, as if imprinted, pattern.
Scratches
Take thick paint not diluted with water (it is better to use acrylic or gouache) and paint a colored spot. Use a piece of cardboard or a crochet hook to scratch the lines. Or you can cut the cardboard with jagged teeth and scratch ridges in the paint. Using a crochet hook, scratch out different curls. Using the edge of the cardboard, press out lines in a crisscross pattern. Make impressions with the cap of a felt-tip pen. After the child has mastered this technique, you can begin to create a picture. To do this, apply paint of different colors on several sheets of paper and different ways scratch the surface. Now assemble the composition. For example, cut out a pond from a piece with scallops, cut out a sky with clouds from curls, make a snake from a scaly surface, and so on. Paste the cut out elements onto a blank sheet of paper.
Drawing with gouache using the poking method
You will need gouache, a brush, and album sheets. The child holds a brush in his hands and places it perpendicularly on the paper. Show me how your brush jumps! Using this poking method, you can draw fireworks, you can color a fluffy cat (the cat should be drawn in advance with a felt-tip pen or pencil), you can also color flowers.
Sprinkling technique
Dip your toothbrush into one color of paint. Hold the brush over the paper. Using your finger, spray the paint - splatter it across the sheet. Multiple colors can be used.
In the same way, you can make drawings using a stencil.
On colored paper apply the stencil. These can be various flowers, silhouettes of houses, trees. Dilute the paint thinly in a yogurt jar. Dip a toothbrush into the paint and run a ruler along the bristles of the brush towards you, splashing paint around the silhouette. Try to ensure that the entire background is covered with specks. Remove the stencil and add details on the “unstained” part of the drawing. You can also use tree leaves as stencils.
Autumn picture
With your child, collect several leaves from different trees. Apply an even layer of paint to the bottom of the leaf (where the veins protrude). Carefully place the sheet on the paper with the painted side down, and press the structure on top with a napkin. Now you can remove the napkin and piece of paper, and a nice imprint will remain on the paper. For autumn picture Make red, yellow, green and orange prints of leaves from different trees on paper.
Learning to make a background
Usually children draw on white paper. This way you can see it more clearly. It's faster that way. But some stories require a background. And, I must say, all children’s works look better against a background made in advance. Many children make the background with a brush, and an ordinary, small one. Although there is a simple and reliable way: make a background with cotton wool or a piece of foam rubber dipped in water and paint.
Collage
The concept itself explains the meaning this method: several of the above are collected into it. In general, we ideally think the following is important: it is good when a preschooler is not only familiar with various image techniques, but also does not forget about them, but uses them appropriately, fulfilling a given goal. For example, one of the 5-6 year old children decided to draw summer, and for this he uses a dotted pattern (flowers), and the child will draw the sun with his finger, he will cut out fruits and vegetables from postcards, he will depict the sky and clouds with fabrics, etc. The limit to improvement and creativity in visual arts No.
English teacher-researcher Anna Rogovin recommends using everything that is at hand for drawing exercises: draw with a cloth, paper napkin(folded many times); paint dirty water, old tea leaves, coffee grounds, berry juice. It is also useful to color cans and bottles, spools and boxes, etc.
Blowing from a straw
You will need a drinking straw. You can use either tempera or acrylic paints, to create unique picture using only straw blowing skills. Dilute a little paint with water.
Pour a small amount of one of the colors onto the paper. Hold one end of the tube near the paint and blow it in all directions. Guess what you got.
Miracle - drawing
Invite your child to draw a portrait of his mother, grandmother, animal or anything else from... different flowers (daisies, bells, roses...), from vegetables (cucumbers, carrots, watermelons), from bunnies, bears, cats.
These will be real miracle pictures!
Drawing games
Drawing with a secret in three pairs of hands
When your child turns 4 years old, we strongly recommend using this method. It consists in the following. Take a rectangular sheet of paper and 3 pencils. The adults and the child are divided: who will draw first, who will draw second, who will draw third. The first one begins to draw, and then closes his drawing, folding the piece of paper at the top and leaving a little bit, some part, for continuation (the neck, for example). The second, seeing nothing but the neck, naturally continues with the torso, leaving only part of the legs visible. The third one finishes. Then the entire sheet is opened - and almost always it turns out funny: from the discrepancy in proportions and color schemes.
Drawing together on a long strip of paper
By the way, it is useful to change the paper format (i.e., give not only the standard). In this case, a long strip will help two people to draw without interfering with each other. You can draw isolated objects or scenes, i.e. work nearby. And even in this case, the child is warmer from the elbow of mom or dad. And then it is advisable to move on to collective drawing. The adults and the child agree on who will draw what to create one plot.
Drawing yourself or drawing your favorite toys from life
Drawing from life develops observation, the ability to no longer create, but to depict according to the rules, i.e. draw so that it is similar to the original in proportions, shapes, and color. Suggest that you first draw a picture of yourself while looking in the mirror. And be sure to look in the mirror many times. Better yet, show how you adults will draw yourself, making sure to look in the mirror many times. Next, let the child choose an object for himself. It could be a favorite doll, a bear, or a car. It is important to learn to observe for a long time, comparing parts of an object. And further. If a child departs from nature, brings in something of his own, resulting in a completely different object or toy, do not be upset. Praise your child: “You drew today new car! You probably want one?” But at the end of such a drawing it is important to ask: “How is the drawn car different from this one?”
"I'm drawing mom..."
It would be good to continue drawing from life or drawing from memory (family members, relatives and friends could become objects for such an image). Supporting material may include photographs or conversations about characteristics appearance absent relatives... Photos are taken and examined. A conversation is being held: “What is Grandma Valya like? What kind of hair does she have? Hairstyle? Favorite dress? Smile?” And the process of co-creation begins. After a while, you can offer to draw the girlfriends from memory. When enough drawings depicting relatives and friends have been collected, we recommend organizing a mini-exhibition “My Relatives and Friends,” where the first portraits of a preschooler are appreciated.
Building a city
If you have a large sheet of Whatman paper or other white paper, it will become the place where “the city will be founded.” Spread it right on the floor, grab pencils and markers and start “building” your own city with your child. What kind of houses, shops, cars, trees will there be here? Who will live here? Perhaps everything will be the most ordinary and familiar, or vice versa - amazing and fabulous? But in any city, be sure to draw a candy store, a zoo and a circus. What would we do without them? This “drawing” game is also good because you can play it for more than one day. Tired of drawing, they rolled up the paper and put it away. But after a while, the baby’s interest will flare up with renewed vigor. And you can draw not only the city, but also the seabed, space, a bird market, a kindergarten, a prehistoric land with ancient lizards, Africa or Antarctica, in general, everything in this moment excites and interests the little artist. And on large sheet yes, with his mother’s participation, his imagination and artistic ability will open up to the fullest!
Typography
A child who loves to draw can be invited to work together. Type the text of his favorite fairy tale on the computer and print it out, leaving space for drawings. Let the child first draw pictures with a pencil, then color them. When the book is ready, order a binding (this can be done at any photocopying shop) or simply insert its pages into a notebook with transparent files. Maybe the first book your baby reads will be created by you together? By the way, you can create not only in the field of book printing. In a photo studio, your child's drawings can be transferred to clothes or even dishes.
Colorful miracle
The world around the child is full of magical colors, extraordinary flowers, fabulous images. Children's unstructured perceptions differ from adults' concrete perceptions. From the age of three, pencils and paints, drawing and coloring become one of the child’s favorite activities. You probably remember the painted wallpaper, the painted furniture, the painted knees and foreheads. A child’s desire to freely draw and manipulate paints is natural for him.
The child is not so much interested in the plot of the drawing as in the process of changing the environment with the help of color. It is drawing that gives the feeling of a “creator”, a discoverer, an “author” who has created something unique, joy, pleasure and self-confidence. Children enjoy mixing and blurring, the fact that a new color appears here and there from a mixture of colors. The sudden surprise that flashes on the children's faces speaks volumes about what this means to them. After all, the color of the objects surrounding the child does not change over time, but on paper the color moves, changes, appears and disappears.
That is why drawing is an internal event and at the same time serves as the key to the emotional understanding of art. The most productive process for a child’s development is painting with paints on a wet sheet.
There are three colors that cannot be obtained by mixing other colors.
These are yellow, blue and red. Derived colors are obtained by mixing pairs of primary colors: green from yellow and blue, orange from yellow and red, violet from red and blue. Color ratios can vary in their saturation, so yellowish, light blue, pink colors. All this can be told and shown to the child, teaching him to experiment with really good colors. watercolor paints(they are easier to mix and produce purer tones than, for example, gouache). Free painting with colors through mixing them is a fascinating process.
Parents must show how to build it correctly. Place oilcloth or newspaper on the table or floor. Wet a thick sheet of paper (simply by dipping it in a bowl of water and ironing it with a sponge), dip the brush in one of the liquid paints and carefully brush it over the paper. Before dipping the brush into another paint, wash it in a glass of water. As if by accident, you can run a brush with water over the paper, but without paint; the water is mixed with other paints, and delicate, blurry, light halftones will appear on the sheet.
So continue to draw until the child has a desire to try: “I want to draw too!” Thus begins the first lesson of free creative drawing. It is very important that the child always prepares correctly and carefully for this activity: change the water, dilute paints of three primary colors, prepare oilcloth and paper.
At first, children draw on their own what they want; over time, they can draw while telling fairy tales to adults. After drawing, you can discuss the drawing by asking the child how he felt. The leaves dry, then they must be hung in the most habitable corners of the apartment (central room, corridor, kitchen). Your child’s fantastic, extraordinary paintings will turn your home into a fairy-tale gallery, where the most expensive, soul-touching exhibits will not be carpets and prints, but bright reflections (bursts) of your child’s joy and emotional imagination.
Rainbow
Demonstrate magic game colors When teaching your child to mix colors, it is helpful to ask him to draw a rainbow. To remember well how the colors are located in the rainbow, tell him the rhyme: “Every (red) hunter (orange) wants (yellow) to know (green) where the (blue) eagle owl (purple) sits” - and with him draw a rainbow by mixing paints.
Gems
The exercise allows you to freely experiment with color. A wet piece of paper is a chest with precious stones. They all have their own unique color. The child is invited to try all possible combinations of three colors, different brightness and saturation of colorful mixtures, and fill the chest with different gems, simply by placing multi-colored dots.
Drawing music
Prepare everything for drawing on a wet sheet. Sit next to your child and watch the expression of emotions on his face and on the paper, turning on calm, lyrical music. You can first agree on what colors will be good (yellow, blue), sad (green, light blue), evil (dark red, dark blue). Then it is better to exclude these rules and give the child freedom in choosing colors that reflect his perception of music.
Drawing a mood (for children from 5 years old)
Prepare a wet sheet and paints. Ask your child to draw his mood. Nearby, let him depict the mood of mom, dad, sister, cat, etc.
The adult observes but does not interfere with the drawing process. The interpretation will depend on the brightness, thickness and color of the design. Dark tones are disturbing tones.
"Drawing a fairy tale"
Prepare everything for drawing on a wet sheet. Invite your child to listen carefully to a fairy tale (any one) and, when he wants, to depict something or someone with color. While the child mixes paints and draws, the adult waits calmly, then continues the story. The drawing will show how emotionally the fairy tale affects the child. A dark range will indicate a negative experience. Light - about joyful and light.
Seasons
Invite the child to draw spring, summer, autumn and winter on one sheet of paper, telling him that “nature has no bad weather”, that any state of mind is useful to a person. When interpreting, pay attention to whether the child is sad or happy to draw autumn.
Drawing with the whole family
Having chosen the theme of the drawing (a fairy tale, an incident from the life of a family, etc.), prepare a large wet sheet, sit around it, allowing you to crawl to any place and draw whatever you want.
funny drawing
Attach a piece of paper to the door or wall. The players line up in one line. The presenter blindfolds the first person, takes him to the “easel”, gives him a felt-tip pen and says that now everyone will draw one cow, elephant, hare, princess, etc.
Everyone takes turns coming up blindfolded and completing the missing details.
Well, what a funny picture it turns out!
Collective drawing
On one sheet of paper, each participant draws a detail of a pre-selected plot (someone's portrait, the seabed, a morning in the forest, an unfamiliar planet, etc.). Then everyone names the picture and comes up with general history or a fairy tale.
Drawing portraits
Participants are divided into pairs. One is the sitter, he must concentrate and try not to change his pose and facial expression while the “artist” is working on his portrait. You can draw with flowers, stars, snowflakes, containers, carrots, etc., as long as you get a portrait of exactly the person you are drawing. The “artist” does not show his work to the “sitter” until he has been in the role of the “artist”. Then the couples exchange “masterpieces” and discuss what is wrong and what would be better. It is possible to re-draw and correct defects.
Have a creative mood!
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