In this article you will find many interesting ideas on how to diversify painting activities with your child and make them interesting and educational.
Eco-friendly paints for children
There are 3 types for children safe paints which parents prefer:
- finger-shaped
- gouache
- watercolor
It’s better to start with finger paints; they are suitable for younger children. You can learn more about them from the article. Gouache and watercolor for older children.
A child is interested in exploring something new, but over time he may get tired of the monotonous procedure of coloring a sheet with paint. To prevent this from happening, parents need to show their child how to draw.
There are many ways to paint with the above paints. Various techniques They won’t let your child get bored and will show him a lot of new and interesting things that he hasn’t seen before.
Finger painting for kids
Exactly this interesting activity for little ones, because you first need to feel the paint before you learn to paint with it. Dip your index finger into the paint and use it to make spots on the paper, using them to draw a flower or a caterpillar. Draw lines with your finger, make rays of the sun. Show your child that you can draw like this and let him create on his own, let him draw what he wants.
Painting with a brush for children
When the child can already hold a brush in his hands, show him how to paint with it. Explain to your child that it needs to be washed before taking on a new color. Take the paint with a brush and apply it to a piece of paper. Try painting with brushes of different sizes and shapes, see what kind of drawing you get.
You can paint with a brush in the following ways:
Dot painting for kids
Show how you can draw with dots; for this you can use a brush, a finger, or a cotton swab. Dip your tool into the paint and quickly touch it to the paper. You can color simple pictures using this technique; kids really like this activity, and it is also very useful for developing fine motor skills.
Drawing with stamps for children
Apply paint to the stamp and apply it to the paper, press down. An imprint of the picture will remain on the paper. Show your child how to work with it. The stamps can be painted in different colors; instead of ready-made stamps, you can use homemade ones. For example, to make circles with straws, you can use figures from sorters, parts from construction sets, and even cut vegetables and fruits. 
Very interesting texture This works if you use a regular napkin with pimples instead of a stamp. Dip it into the paint and, as if blotting, walk it over a sheet of paper.
Drawing with foam rubber
Cut a piece of foam and dip it in paint, then press it onto the paper and remove it. You can draw lines and paint over some shapes. Show your child how to draw. Your child will also be interested if you make different geometric shapes from foam rubber. You can attach them to a pencil or stick and use them as stamps. This way, by playing, you can learn not only colors, but also shapes. Then complicate the task, try to draw ornaments, first from two shapes, then use more shapes.
Drawing on wet paper
Wet a piece of drawing paper with water. Now draw on it with paint. The contours of the lines blur, become fuzzy, smooth transitions and haze are excellent. Just don’t overdo it with water; it will be better if you wipe it with a damp cotton swab. This technique is good for paintings with rain, images of fog, flowers behind a curtain.
Blotography
Teach your child to make blots, because then it’s so interesting to guess what they look like.
Take a sheet of paper, fold it in half, unfold it and put a few blots on the fold; you can make them the same color or different ones. Fold the sheet along the fold line and run your fingers from the center of the design to its edge. You can say something like “sim-salabim”.
Unfold the sheet and show your child what you came up with. When the child grows up a little, you can ask him what he sees in the drawing, what it reminds him of. When the drawing is dry, you can finish drawing with a felt-tip pen. small parts or outline. This develops imagination and abstract thinking very well.
Nitcography
To do this you will need a sheet of thick paper and a woolen thread. Bend the sheet in half and unfold it, lower the thread into a jar of paint, then place it on the paper and fold it. Move the thread, pressing the sheet with your palm. Unfold and see what happens. You will see chaotic strokes of paint, look at them with your child, maybe you will see some familiar objects in them, circle them and complete the details, say what they are called. The combination of creativity, mental and speech work will help your child develop intellectually.
Wax painting
This is a very common and interesting technique. Draw on a piece of paper with a wax crayon or piece wax candle picture, and then paint over this sheet of paper with your child. Since the wax is greasy, the paint will not cover it and you will see your drawing. This method can also be used to make secret notes or write congratulations.
Waxing and waxing technique
Place something under a sheet of paper, such as a coin or other embossed object, rub the sheet with wax, paint on top and you will get an image of the object.
Drawings with salt
Sprinkle the finished drawing with salt. When the paint dries, the salt will remain on the sheet and give an interesting texture to the design. This way you can do three-dimensional drawing, for example, highlight stones or a path in the image. On blue paint, salt will look like snowflakes; if you sprinkle green leaves with salt, they will become life-like, translucent.
Drawings with masking tape
Molar tape sticks and peels off paper well, so it can be used in drawing and get interesting effects. For example, you can make a birch forest: cut out tree trunks from tape, you can glue twigs and branches from the leftovers, and glue the tape onto a sheet of paper. Paint everything on top with paint, when it dries, remove the tape, white stripes will remain under it. All you have to do is add details and the forest is ready!
You can cut out something more complex, such as houses and draw the whole city. The good thing about adhesive tape is that it can be used instead of a stencil, but paint drips are unlikely to get under it, and there is no need to fix it additionally.
You can also use the tape as a frame for the picture, when you remove it, the edges of the picture will be clear and it will be neat.
Drawing pictures using cling film
Yes, yes, with the help cling film You can also make interesting drawings. Lay it on a sheet of paper covered with wet paint and move it around a little. When you remove it, you will see interesting abstractions that resemble crystals.
Blowing paint through tubes
Thin the paint with water to make it thinner. Take one or two colors. Drop paint onto the sheet and blow into the tube, directing it in different directions onto the paint. What you draw will resemble the interweaving of tree branches, or you can add a face and it will be hair - let the child dream up.
Coloring drawings
Draw some animal on a piece of paper and ask the child to hide it, just show how first: paint it completely over it. You can tell a fairy tale, for example, that there was a mouse, she went for delicious cheese, and a cat was waiting for her, who wanted to eat the mouse. And ask your child how you can help the mouse? Of course, it must be hidden. And ask him to do it.
Leaf drawing
Very interesting way drawing. For this you will need leaves from trees. Apply paint to the leaves, you can paint them in different colors, attach the leaf with paint to the paper and press it, then carefully remove it. You can make such a beautiful forest.
If you turn on a little imagination, you will come up with a lot of new ideas with which drawing will not only a fun activity, but also informative, educational and useful.
In addition to paints, there are other tools for drawing. Your baby will definitely love wax pencils, markers, and crayons. More details about fine art and other types of creativity are described in the article
VIDEO: Let's paint! Drawing games
Let's draw with potatoes!
PEBBLES. Cut the potato in half. Run the tines of a fork several times, creating a relief on the cut. Dip the potato in paint and make a print.
FISH. Pad thumb type the body and the tail with the tip of your index finger. Using a felt-tip pen, draw in the eyes and mouth.
BUBBLES. Stamp with the end of a plastic straw.
PLANTS. Cut the onion and make an imprint.
Blotography
The point is to teach 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. “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.
So, bend a sheet of white paper and straighten it in half. Together with your baby, place 2-3 multi-colored spots of gouache (ink) on the fold line. Fold the sheet in half and with the magic words “crex, fex, pex”, run your finger from the center to the edges. Open the leaf and get a butterfly or flower! After drying, use a felt-tip pen to add small details.
Nitcography
Bend and straighten a sheet of white cardboard approximately 20x20 cm. Take a thick wool thread about 30 cm long and dip its end 8-10 cm into thick paint and place it between the two halves of the sheet. Lightly press the sheet and move the thread. Say the magic words and see what happens. 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 on wet
Wet the paper with water and immediately start drawing. When it dries, wet it again and continue painting. The result is a smoky image with blurry outlines and smooth transitions.
Magic candle
Using a wax candle (or a piece of laundry soap), secretly from the child, draw a Christmas tree or a house on thick paper. Then, using foam rubber, begin to apply paint to the entire surface of the paper. Since a house drawn with a candle will be greasy, the paint will not adhere to it, and the drawing will suddenly appear in front of the child. The same effect can be achieved by first drawing with office glue.
Old gold
With older children, you can make a picture by drawing with PVA glue, which leaves a convex line. Then this drawing needs to be covered with gold paint and lightly rubbed with black shoe polish, creating the effect of “old gold”.
Blowing drawings
We dilute paints of two colors with water to a very liquid state. Pour both colors close to each other onto a sheet of thick paper. We lower the cocktail straw into the center and, pointing it in different directions, begin to blow strongly. Multi-colored branched shoots are obtained. If you create a “face” in the middle of the drawing using a wet cloth in a circular motion, and after drying, apply eyes, mouth, nose and ears to it, you will get a cheerful little man.
Watercolor with salt
If it's not dry yet watercolor drawing sprinkle with salt, the salt will stick to the paint and create a grainy effect when it dries.
Cracked wax
A simple drawing can be turned into a canvas by an artist of past centuries. To do this you need to draw wax pencils. The main thing is to press firmly on the pencil and cover the entire surface of the paper with the design and background, leaving no gaps. Then carefully crumple the pattern, starting from the edges. Unfold and repeat again to create more cracks. We take dark liquid paint and pour it into all the cracks, and then rinse the drawing on both sides under the tap and let it dry. If your painting turns out to be too wrinkled, you can iron it by placing it between two sheets of newspaper.
Bitmap
Try drawing with a felt-tip pen or pencil, making many dots and quickly hitting the sheet of paper with the tool. And the best results are dotted drawings with paints. You can use a hard brush, or you can use a match, cleared of sulfur and tightly wrapped with a small piece of cotton wool. They dip it in paint and start creating.
Photocopy without copier
Drawing blindly through a sheet of copy paper is very useful for developing fine motor skills. Place it with the ink side on a sheet of paper and start drawing directly on the carbon paper with your fingers, a pencil or a blunt stick. When the drawing is finished, put away the carbon paper and look with your child to see if there are any details that you forgot to depict.
Collage
There are always unnecessary postcards, photographs, and colored magazine clippings in the house that can be combined into a large collage. Once you have created your canvas using glue and scissors, you can tint the background or parts of the painting with paint. This should turn out to be something very interesting.
English teacher-researcher Anna Rogovin recommends using everything that is at hand for drawing exercises: drawing 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.
And here are the METHODS AND TECHNIQUES OF NON-TRADITIONAL DRAWING, proposed by Galina Galitsina:
LET'S DRAW TOGETHER
A long strip of paper will help two people 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 a common plot.
CONTINUE THE DRAWING
When your child turns 4 years old, we strongly advise you to use the following method. Take a rectangular sheet of paper and 3 pencils. Adults and children 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, color ranges.
FOAM DRAWINGS
For drawing, 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 ready. 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 geometric shapes chaotically. And then offer to make simple ornaments out of them - first from one type of figure, then from two, three.
MAGIC DRAWING METHOD
This method is implemented like this. Using the corner of a 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 appear suddenly before the children’s eyes, appearing. 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.
FINGERGRAPHY METHOD
Here's another way to depict the world: fingers, palm, feet, 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 can draw a tree better 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 good if we teach children to use their fingers rationally: not just one index finger, but all of them.
Progress of the lesson:
Now we will paint not with a brush, but with our fingers. For work we will need paper, diluted gouache in a flat plate.
- Dip your fingertips in paint and make imprints on paper. This way you can draw berries, colorful lights, and dandelions.
- Clench your hand into a fist and move it across the plate of paint from side to side so that the paint is well distributed over your hand.
- Raise your fist and place it on the paper. You will get large prints. They can be turned into birds, flowers, clouds.
- Dip your palm with open fingers into the paint and apply it to the paper. Consider what happened and fill in the missing details. This way you can draw dinosaurs, Christmas trees and even create a composition" Happy summer".
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 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. There needs to be ambiguity and vagueness, for example, if a child wants to depict following topics: "City in the Fog", "I Dreamed", "It's Raining", " Night city", "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 out. Therefore, it is recommended to wet it in 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.
FABRIC IMAGES
We collect remnants of fabrics of various patterns and different qualities into a bag. As they say, both chintz and brocade will come in handy. Very important on specific examples show how drawing on fabric, as well as its dressing, can help to depict something in a plot very brightly and at the same time easily. Let's give a few examples. Thus, flowers are depicted on one of the fabrics. They are cut out along the contour, glued (only with paste or other good glue), and then painted on the table or vase. The result is a capacious colorful image. There are fabrics that can serve well as a house or the body of an animal, or a beautiful umbrella, or a hat for a doll, or a handbag.
VOLUME APPLICATION
It is obvious that children love to do appliqué: cut something out and stick it on, getting a lot of pleasure from the process itself. And we need to create all the conditions for them. Along with planar appliqué, teach them to do three-dimensional applique: three-dimensional is better perceived by a preschooler and more realistically reflects the world around them. In order to obtain such an image, you need to knead the applicator well in children’s hands. colored paper, then straighten slightly and cut out the required shape. Then just stick it on and, if necessary, draw in individual details with a pencil or felt-tip pen. For example, make a turtle that is so beloved by children. Remember the brown paper, straighten it slightly, cut out an oval shape and stick it on, and then draw on the head and legs.
DRAWING USING POSTCARDS
In fact, almost every home has a ton 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. Can a three-, four-, or even five-year-old child draw a dog and a beetle? No. But he will add sun and rain to the dog and the bug and will 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.
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.
Preschoolers love to draw. At the age of 4-6 years, the child has already mastered the basic skills of handling a pencil, felt-tip pens, brushes and paints. How to teach a child to draw at 4, 5, 6 years old are simple, but realistic drawings, what step-by-step schemes to use, what to stock up on for your child’s creative explorations, and how to teach him to create story pictures?
We will try to answer all questions.
The benefits of drawing for children
Many parents have heard about the benefits of drawing.
Drawing for children 4, 5, 6 years old helps:
- stimulate fine motor skills;
- develop speech;
- correctly formulate thoughts and put them into sentences;
- express yourself;
- assert oneself;
- develop a creative approach;
- develop attentiveness, perseverance, and hard work.
Among other things, drawing can:
- give positive emotions;
- strengthen memorization of material;
- signal to parents about the child’s complexes and problems;
- overcome the fear of starting work from scratch;
- lay the foundations of aesthetic perception.
You can get a lot of benefits from drawing if you do it correctly. The main thing is not to overdo it and not discourage the child from wanting to draw anything at all.
What to buy a child for drawing
Pledge good work for drawing - proper preparation of the process. Children don’t like to wait, and if a creative impulse happens, you need to be 100% ready:
- Paper. Take A3 sheets. Children aged 4-6 are just developing their eye and, carried away by drawing the head of the animal, forget to leave room for the body.
- A simple pencil. Children use it to create basic outlines. Take the one marked HB, it does not crumble and is not too greasy.
- Eraser. This is an indispensable thing for erasing unnecessary borders and lines. You can buy it, or you can make it exclusive using special plasticine. For one thing, remember classes in plasticine modeling, which is good for variety of activities.
- Colored pencils and markers. The wider their palette, the happier the child.
- Sharpener. Don't skimp, buy a good, professional one. This way the baby won’t be angry that she doesn’t sharpen, breaks the rod, etc., but will be happy to draw.
- Wax crayons. They are good for painting over contours.
- Paints. If the child is 4-5 years old, this is gouache. At 6 years old, you can give your child watercolors. These paints are transparent and vibrant, but require certain skills.
- Brushes. Choose large (for the background), medium (for wide lines) and small (for drawing outlines). Select the diameter of the shaft to be the same as that of a writing pen - the child’s fingers will begin to prepare for writing letters and numbers.
- Jar for water. You can use a regular glass or buy a special one.
- Palette. Your child will definitely need to mix colors.
- Colored crayons. Who knows, maybe inspiration will strike a child while out for a walk?
- Soap and towel. No matter how neat a child is, if he works with paints, his arms will be covered up to his elbows, his cheeks, and his nose. Believe me.
When everything is purchased, pay close attention to the child’s creative corner:
- Lighting. The place for drawing should be well lit - problems with vision in such at a young age no one needs.
- Availability. The child must get all art supplies without getting up from the chair.
- Practicality. Make sure that all surfaces are easy to clean and that the child is able to clean up after himself.
When everything is ready, you can start working!
How to teach a child to draw trees step by step
A tree is the simplest drawing that a child can be taught to draw even at 4 years old, using step-by-step scheme. Depicting trees using straight lines and geometric shapes the baby is already familiar. Let's complicate the problem and add realism to the tree. Here's how we'll draw a deciduous tree:
- Draw a tubercle, a circle above it and connect the two objects with straight lines (this is the trunk).
- Draw a smile on the circle that goes through the top points of the straight lines. Draw branches to it.
- Make the edge of the crown uneven, highlight the places where the branches enter, draw the trunk and grass on the tubercle. The tree is ready!
Using the same principle - from simple schematic outlines to the desired contours - draw a spruce and birch tree, as shown in the following pictures. 
Conveniently, the trunk and branches can be drawn with a pencil, and the child is free to create the crown as he wishes. Fingerprints, brush pressure, pencil strokes. In any case, the tree will turn out to be alive and real.
How to teach a child to draw animals step by step
For drawing animals with children 4-6 years old, use the same method. Draw the frame using geometric shapes and give it a shape.
Let's look at this point with an example best friend human - dog:
- Draw a circle and an irregular oval - this is the head and body of the dog.
- Connect two roundnesses with smooth lines - this is the neck.
- Add a muzzle and tail.
- Draw the ear and paws.
- We paint over the ear, draw the nose, eyes and tongue, add the outline of the second pair of paws, erase unnecessary borders - the dog is ready to guard the yard!
The yard can be drawn around the dog later. Add a house, a booth, a fence - and the plot drawing is ready!
Using the dog principle, try to depict:
- kitten;
- duck;
- horse;
- pig.
If your child wants a running horse, simply lift the front of the body higher when drawing and “bend” the horse’s front legs at the knee, allowing the mane and tail to flutter in the wind.
How to teach a child to draw a person step by step
One of the first desires of a child is to draw a picture of mom, dad and himself. At first these are stick men, but this option will not suit a 4-year-old child, and the angular little man ceases to seem good drawing already at 5 years old. And the child also wants a person to do something on paper.
Let's try to draw a boy about to play chess:
If a child is seriously interested in drawing people and what you offer him does not suit him due to disproportion, show him little artist the following diagram:
Here are the proportions of people of different ages, the child may be interested in this, and he will try to draw a real proportional person. This information is relevant for children 6 years old.
Autumn landscape - step-by-step drawing for children
The easiest way for 4-5 year old children to paint is to create a landscape.
Let's take autumn - it is the most colorful:
- Don't force a 4 year old child to draw. If he doesn’t want to, replace drawing. Bored? Try to switch his attention to . For him, drawing can be a completed stage, and he realizes himself through other activities.
- If a child at 5-6 years old is completely “showy”, distract him from his favorite activity or introduce elements of such games into his gatherings with the album. The baby must develop harmoniously.
- Talk to your child about his drawings. A simple “wow, beautiful” is not enough. Ask what is happening in the picture, why everything is this way and not otherwise - the baby will appreciate your attention.
- Do not compare your child’s work with one example. The sun can be depicted in a hundred different ways. Don’t instill in your child the complex that he won’t succeed this way; encourage the individuality of his work.
- Keep your child's work. And he will be pleased, and in your old age you will have something to look at and remember.
Drawing for children - video
This video shows how to draw a person. They tell you how to calculate the proportions of a person.
This video shows detailed lesson for painting with watercolors. It describes in detail how to prepare for such an event.
Drawing is a useful activity for children. By drawing, the child trains attention, memory and hand, and by talking about what he has drawn, he practices speech. For some children, drawing is a real outlet, their own world, from which they cannot be torn away. Not all children become artists, but all children's drawings are masterpieces for their parents.
Does your baby draw a lot? What does your child like to draw most? if you have interesting ideas for children's drawings or experience on how to teach children 4-6 years old to draw, share it with us in the comments!
Every child loves to draw. Some people draw well-thought-out stories, others just sketches. Although, scribbles are only for us adults. And the child has his own meaning in them.
It's great when a child draws on his own.
I try not to interfere in the process and not give advice. However, I welcome collaborative drawing. This is how you can show your child interesting techniques, which he will definitely use in the future himself.
My daughter and I recently mastered new technology drawing. To tell the truth, we tried it before, but it didn’t work out. Apparently, for us, the age of 3-4 years is ideal for starting to draw through a cocktail straw.
This drawing technique is excellent for a child's articulatory apparatus.
Drawing with a tube. Blotography
Paper
For blotography, it is advisable to choose thick paper that does not immediately absorb paint. Thick album sheets or watercolor paper are perfect.
Paints
You can paint with gouache, slightly diluted with water; watercolor (the drawings will not be very bright) or ink (especially good for drawing tree trunks).
Tools
A long cocktail stick and a thick, stiff brush.
My daughter and I painted with gouache, slightly diluted with water, on printer paper. It quickly absorbs paint and is not very convenient to paint on.
Drawing technique using a tube
It's very simple: use a brush to drip a large drop of paint onto the paper and blow fancy patterns out of it through a straw.
We painted only with black gouache. You can use a lot of bright and colorful paints and get a vibrant abstract painting.
We got trees. All that remains is to finish drawing the leaves. This can be done with paints and pencils. Or you can use the applique technique: glue crumpled pieces of napkins of different colors (yellow, green, red), dried and crumbled leaves and you will get it.
Anyutka decided to paint autumn. The background in the pictures below is made oil pastels(lay the chalk on its side and, with light pressure, move it across the paper). The leaves in the picture on the left are made with watercolor (hard brush, applied with “poke”). And in the picture on the right - the leaves were drawn by my daughter with oil pastels.
This drawing is only watercolor. The trunks were a little smeared from the damp brush, but Anya was not bothered by this: “It’s just a storm, now I’ll draw how the leaves flew up into the sky and then fell.”
A little more about our drawing with my daughter
Anya loves to draw with pencils, crayons and paints. But for some reason he prefers one color when drawing. As a rule, she has one picture - one color. The next one can be made in a different color, but also in one.
Only occasionally, when painting with paints, does my daughter get two or three colored pictures.
There is only one thing that pleases me. In drawing, my daughter allows our joint creativity, but in crafts.
Sometimes we draw one picture together, sometimes we each draw our own on a specific topic. This is the result of joint creativity.
The background was painted together. Anya chose the colors. I drew the tree (picture on the left), and Anya did the rest. The results were bright, multi-colored paintings. After such joint drawing, Anya draws color pictures for some time, and then returns to monochrome ones.
How do you draw with children?
Natalya Fattakhova
Unconventional techniques drawing for children 4–5 years old
Non-traditional drawing techniques for children 4-5 years old
“The origins of abilities and talents children at your fingertips. From the fingers, figuratively speaking, come the finest threads- streams that feed the source of creative thought. In other words, the more skill in a child’s hand, the smarter the child.”
V. A. Sukhomlinsky
Preschool childhood is a very important period in life. children. It is at this age that every child is a little explorer, discovering the unfamiliar and amazing world around him with joy and surprise. The more diverse children's activities are, the more successful the child's diversified development is, his potential capabilities and first manifestations of creativity are realized.
Formation creative personality– one of the important tasks of pedagogical theory and practice in modern stage. Its solution begins already in preschool age. Most effective remedy for this purpose visual activity children in kindergarten . Drawing is one of the most important means of understanding the world and developing knowledge of aesthetic perception, since it is associated with independent, practical and creative activity child.
In progress drawing The child’s observation skills improve, aesthetic perception, aesthetic emotions, artistic taste, Creative skills.
It should be noted that almost all children draw. This means that in preschool age drawing should not be an end in itself, but a means of understanding the world around us. By drawing, the child develops certain capabilities: visual assessment of shape, ability to navigate in space, feel colors. Special skills and skills: hand-eye coordination, free use of the hand, which will greatly help the future student. In addition, classes on drawing They bring joy to children and create a positive attitude.
Therefore, I consider my topic relevant.
The purpose of my work is to develop interest among children preschool age for use unconventional means and drawing technician.
Tasks:
1. Introduce children middle preschool age with, to form an interest in visual arts;
2. To promote preschoolers’ mastery of protozoa technical techniques for working with various visual arts materials: tree leaves, cotton pads and swabs, sponges...
3. Encourage students to independently apply finger painting
Drawing in unconventional ways , a fascinating, mesmerizing activity that surprises and delights children. The developing environment plays an important role in the development of a child. Therefore, when organizing a subject-spatial developmental environment, I took into account that the content was developmental in nature and was aimed at developing the creativity of each child in accordance with his individual capabilities, accessible and appropriate age characteristics children. There are so many unnecessary interesting things at home (toothbrush, combs, foam rubber, corks, polystyrene foam, spool of thread, candles, etc.). While walking with children on a walk, I draw their attention to how much there is around interesting: sticks, cones, leaves, pebbles, plant seeds. Unusual materials and original technology attracts children that there is no word here "it is forbidden", Can paint whatever you want and how you want, and you can even come up with your own unusual technique. Children feel unforgettable, positive emotions, and by emotions one can judge the child’s mood, what makes him happy, what makes him sad.
Conducting classes using:
Helps relieve children's fears;
Develops self-confidence;
Develops spatial thinking;
Teaches children express your ideas freely;
Encourages children to creative searches and solutions;
Teaches children work with a variety of materials;
Develops a sense of composition, rhythm, color, color perception; a sense of texture and volume;
Develops fine motor skills of the hands;
Develops creativity, imagination and flight of fancy.
While working, children receive aesthetic pleasure.
After analyzing the drawings of preschoolers, I came to the conclusion that it is necessary to improve the skills drawing, because not even every adult can depict any object. During the training, I noticed that the use unconventional drawing techniques increased the interest of preschoolers in drawing. There are many technician unconventional drawing , their unusualness lies in the fact that they allow children to quickly achieve the desired result.
Experience has shown that mastery unconventional technology images bring true joy to preschoolers if they are built taking into account the specifics of the activity and age children.
Learning success non-traditional techniques largely depends on what methods and techniques the teacher uses to convey to children certain content, to form their knowledge, skills and abilities.
It is imperative to use gaming techniques, fairy tale images, the effect of surprise, and, of course, we should not forget about the availability of materials for creativity and the ability to act with them at any moment. All this helps me get the kids interested and get them excited about creative activities.
In many ways, the result of a child’s work depends on his interest, so during the lesson it is important to intensify the preschooler’s attention and encourage him to activity with the help of additional incentives. Such incentives can be:
Game, which is the main activity children;
A surprise moment - a favorite fairy tale or cartoon character comes to visit and invites the child to go on a trip;
Ask for help, because children will never refuse to help the weak, it is important for them to feel significant;
Lively, emotional speech of the teacher.
The child needs help to learn in various ways drawing, give an idea of different image techniques.
Each of these technician- it's a small game. Their use allows children to feel more relaxed, bolder, more spontaneous, develops imagination, and gives complete freedom for self-expression.
For every age I adhere different options techniques unconventional drawing, starting from simple and gradually moving to more complex.
Expected results:
1. Children are familiar with unconventional ways of drawing, interest in visual arts has been formed;
2. Preschoolers know the simplest technical techniques for working with various visual materials.
3. Pupils use independently unconventional drawing techniques(monotype, leaf printing, finger painting, palms, cotton swabs etc).
LESSON SUMMARY IN A MIDDLE GROUP.
"Fluffy kitten".
A poke with a hard, semi-dry brush.
You can use a hard brush paint with children of any age. This method drawing used to obtain the required invoice drawing: furry or prickly surface. To work you will need gouache, a hard large brush, paper of any color and size. The child dips the brush into the gouache and hits the paper with it, holding it vertically. When working, the brush does not fall into the water. In this way, the entire sheet, outline or template is filled.
This way drawing allows you to give the drawing the necessary expressiveness and realism, and the child gets pleasure from his work.
Purpose of the lesson: help children master new way images - a poke with a hard, semi-dry brush, which allows you to most clearly convey the depicted object, its characteristic texture appearance (volume, fluffiness).
Material for the lesson: album sheet, with drawn outline of a kitten, hard glue brush "Bristle" No. 8, gouache paints, napkins, pictures of cats, an envelope with a photo of a kitten.
Progress of the lesson:
I. Educator: Today we have a guest. Want to know who it is? Then guess mine riddle:
“The tail is fluffy and mustache...
There is no more pleasant beauty!
Paws are soft pillows,
Ears raised up.
Well. Think a little.
Did you guess it? This… (cat).»
II. - Right! Tell us about the cat? What is she like? She is fluffy, she has four legs, a fluffy tail and long mustache. Today I will take you to a cat show and we will take a closer look at them. Look at the cats. Beautiful? They are all different. Both fluffy and smooth, thin and plump, cheerful and sad.
Guys, our fingers want to play cats.
Finger gymnastics "Cats"
Development of fine motor skills
One two three four!
There were cats in our house
The cats were playing with a ball
Cats lapped milk
The cats sharpened their claws,
We caught little gray mice. Sliding strikes with palms against each other
Alternately push one hand forward, then the other.
Connect fingers
They bring their palms "saucers" to the face and tongue imitate lapping.
Knees scratch easily.
Clap your hands.
Do you hear someone knocking? This is a letter from my friend cat Murka. It says here that Murka lost her kittens! What else is in the envelope? This is a photo of one of her kittens. Look at the kitten. What can you say about him? What is he like? What color is it? Children, what can we do for Murka? How can we help her? We can draw kittens and hang pictures in the reception area and we will all ask: Has anyone seen these kittens? We will definitely help Murka. You see, there are unfinished drawings on the tables. Let's make our kittens fluffy. Today the brush will work according to special: will jump up and down. Look, I'm showing you. I take a brush, dip it in water, then excess water I wipe it on a sponge and put it on a brush orange paint- my kitten will be red and I’m starting on the counter paint jumping with a brush like this - up and down. And in the same way I paint over the entire kitten, leaving no white space on it, so that it turns out so fluffy. This is what a fluffy kitten turned out to be.
Physical education minute. Let's play a little "Exercise for kittens"
1. In the morning the sun woke up (Hands up - circle)
The kittens got up too (Handles on the head - showing the ears back and forth)
Smiled at mom (slightly lean forward, index fingers of both hands to the corners of the lips - showing a smile)
Went out to exercise (We march in place)
2. Wash, wash, wash your paws (We wash our hands, leaning forward)
All the mustaches have been combed!
Wash, wash, wash your ears (Index fingers twist it near your ears, wincing)
Children washed their bellies (We stroke the tummy with both hands)
3. And then they walked (Let's go in circles)
We walked together with our legs
We walked together with our legs
Met the sun with mom (Hands up - circle)
Remember how paint? You guys, try to make all the kittens beautiful and fluffy. Kittens come in different colors. What kind of paint do you see on the tables? (orange, black, brown and gray).
Well done! Begin paint. (Independent work children, individual assistance)
What a great fellow you are! The mother cat will definitely find all her kittens. Your kittens turned out fluffy and cheerful. Let's give everyone names (Fluff, Ugolyok, Murzik, Musya, Barsik, Tishka, Chernysh, Vaska).
III. - Oh, guys, do you hear? I think someone came there! Who's purring here? Look, it’s Murka who came to us! Murka liked how beautiful you are drew her kittens. Now she will definitely find them and everything will be fine with them!
References
1. Komarova T. S. Classes in visual arts in children’s garden: Book. for a kindergarten teacher garden 3rd ed., revised. and additional – M.: Education, 1991. - 176 p.
2. Drawing with preschool children age: Unconventional techniques, planning, lesson notes / R. G. Kazakova, T. I. Saiganova, E. M. Sedova, V. Yu. Sleptsova, T. V. Smagina. – M.: TC Sfera, 2005; A-59
