Hello precious Leonards and Goyas!
Please forgive me for the mangled names of great artists (Leonardo Da Vinci and Francisco Goya), but I often call my son that when he paints.
Introducing children to the world of art and self-expression is an important task that faces loving parents in the first place. Drawing with a baby from 1 year old will not only be a way to captivate a toddler, but also a very useful activity for him, helping to develop abilities and character.
The benefits of creativity
Drawing is an interesting and accessible type of developmental activity. In addition to taste, learning color and shape, the baby learns to hold a brush, a pencil.
First drawing (from 1 year old)
10 simple steps for the first classes will make it easier for mom to understand the steps. What and how to do.
1. Toddlers from a year old can be offered to create with their palms and fingers. If your kid is older, but he was not familiar with drawing lessons before, then also start with simple lessons.
2. For drawing at the initial stage, finger gouache or finger paints are suitable, which are essentially the same thing. The composition of this product is completely suitable to taste it. However, it does not replace food, and mother needs to constantly watch so that the baby’s hand is not in her mouth.
3. We also need a large sheet of paper, because the movements of the little ones have not yet been perfected and will definitely go beyond the small format of the album.
Whatman paper or a roll of wallpaper is ideal. You can sit on the table or on the floor. If the room is warm, you can leave the baby in panties alone - he will draw on himself! Yes, this is how they get acquainted with the paint, they all like to draw on themselves. Then you just have to carefully carry the young Leonardo to the bathroom.
4. Show your child the colors. I poured a little into the lid and only then gave it to Danila. Dip the child's finger in the paint and print on the sheet, the child must understand that the paint leaves a mark on the paper.
5. Draw a plot in advance, which after, complete with the baby. Designate the earth, a cloud, a circle-sun, stems, a tree with branches and call the baby.
6. Be sure to talk about what's going on. Your story stimulates attention, develops speech. To begin with, we draw with our fingers, and then with a sponge you can smear your palm and fingers and show the baby how to spank on paper, after which beautiful patterns remain.
7. Put dots that will symbolize the rain falling to the ground from the clouds. After the rain, grass and foliage grow on the tree - with our fingers we draw small green lines.
8. In the first lessons, try not to use a lot of colors. Two, maximum three, more than enough.
At the moment of color change, focus on the fact that you need to wash off the paint and only after that use the next one. (I had a small bowl of water prepared in advance, and I rubbed my fingers and palms with a sponge so as not to constantly drag the child to the bathroom. After all, you can lose interest in the activity along the way).
9. Now you can smear your entire palm with yellow paint and leave prints around the sun, so you get rays. Well, with the advent of the sun and heat, flowers bloom. The trace from the palm at the end of the stem is a blossoming flower. The picture is ready, it can be hung in the nursery.
10. One-year-old children in creativity prefer abstraction, provide freedom. Some children are given for their mother to lead the drawing process, while others, on the contrary, resist and smear themselves wherever they want. In this case, give free rein to the artist, let him create!
This is the picture we got:
Subject drawings are possible, as described above, you can draw individual objects. There are many options for such games, you can come up with anything.
The main thing to remember is that it will not work smoothly, beautifully, accurately now. Circles, dots, lines, little men - cucumbers, waves - an ideal version of drawings in 1 year. With the accumulation of experience and practice, the picture will become more interesting.
In order for the drawing process to bring pleasure to both you and the child, both in the first lesson and in subsequent ones, you need to prepare for learning:
- Think of a place where the child will create. If the choice fell on a room with a light carpet, then it is unlikely that mom will be able to relax.
- Dress your child in clothes that you don't mind getting dirty.
- Prepare an apron, drawing items, a rag, if you plan to draw with your hands, then take care of wet wipes or a towel.
- Be sure to tell your child that you can’t drink water or try paints.
- Encourage creativity and passion for it.
Of course, you don’t need to wait for the perfect result - the figures will be uneven, most likely the fidget will mix colors, make a few blots, and even a large paper size will not protect the floor from paint stains.
But burning eyes, positive emotions and the benefits received by the child while drawing are not comparable to the disasters caused. Therefore, mom should relax and also enjoy the process.
How was your introduction to finger paints? Did everyone like it?
Or did you paint yourself and your mother, as well as the floor and the table?
In any case, I think the child liked it, mothers do not always like it, but what can you do.
So, are we going to do more?
We continue drawing with kids from 1 year old and go further in our knowledge.
For drawing, we still use finger paints and draw with our fingers to consolidate the skill. While drawing, be sure to say where the color is a hundred times and your baby will quickly learn the colors.
- Parents also come to the aid of special drawing notebooks . They greatly facilitate the process and help out if the time for inventing is limited. Simple drawings with large details are suitable for the kid, some have inserts with stickers. There are a wide variety of such notebooks on the market.
I offer you several templates that you can download, print and finger paint with your baby. 
- My son and I also love coloring pages . I take simple plots or monosyllabic characters so that the child understands what kind of picture is depicted. And it is desirable to cut this coloring into separate sheets, because your artist does not spare paint and smears from the heart, your coloring will simply stick together.
I also offer some simple drawings for cutting out, with which the baby may already be familiar. 
Do you remember the famous school line?
It can also be purchased in stationery to this day. Here you kill two birds with one stone: learn geometric shapes and make different animals or objects out of them:
You can also make any stencils yourself from an old box.
Or glue the drawings you cut out to ordinary plastic bottle caps.
We continue to be surprised at the work of the baby and now we already have some success. We can stay longer for this activity and it is exciting and interesting for us.
Let's move on to more meaningful drawing.
You can invite the baby to choose materials for creativity:
In general, draw and draw again!
May the fantasy be with you! Bye bye everyone!
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To achieve good results in the upbringing and development of the child, you need to offer him activities to his liking. One of the activities that all children love to do is drawing. Offering the child to draw, we stimulate his cognitive interest, mental development, fine motor skills, creative thinking. From our article you will learn what are the easy ways to learn to draw for kids.
Types of drawing
Learning to draw is an educational activity through which a child can improve their innate drawing skills. And to help him master the necessary skills should adults - parents or teachers. The methods of teaching fine arts should aim not only to teach how to hold a pencil or brush in your hand correctly, but, above all, to cultivate aesthetic feelings, namely, to be able to see beauty and create it yourself, depict your thoughts, bring your ideas to life.
When teaching drawing, consider the age characteristics of the child
"Advice. When teaching children to draw, methods should be selected that would arouse interest in drawing and evoke an emotional response in the soul of the baby.
Starting to draw with kids, you need to take into account their age characteristics, and select the appropriate types of drawing. Young children have not yet developed many skills. Younger preschoolers still cannot properly hold a pencil and a brush in their hand, monitor the force of their pressure on a sheet of paper, correctly place images on a sheet of paper, do not go beyond the contours when painting over what is drawn, etc. Based on these reasons, it is best to start drawing classes for kids of the simplest types, skills and techniques.
What you need to teach your child to do in the first place:
- correctly hold a pencil in your hand (brush, felt-tip pen)
- depict the simplest lines and shapes, "sticks" and "paths"
- do not go beyond the contours of the picture when coloring it
When the baby masters this initial arsenal of drawing skills, he will be able to translate his ideas on paper, while feeling more confident.
It is easy to embody ideas if you master the simplest types of drawing
Show your child the simplest types of drawing:
- "Drawing in the Air" One of the first drawing lessons can be a conditional image of lines and geometric shapes with a hand in the air. You can do this with your index finger or the whole palm. This type of initial drawing prepares the child to start drawing something on paper. The same movement can be done on a straight, smooth surface, such as a table.
- "Co-Painting" The next stage in teaching children to draw is when an adult leads the child's hand with a pencil on paper. The kid sees how the images are created, and the adult comments on what happens. With the help of this type of drawing, the child learns to hold the pencil correctly, press it on the paper and, in the end, draw the simplest lines and shapes.
- "Drawing details". This is drawing based on a blank, where a part of the picture is drawn (like a mirror image) or a point for connection. The kid must finish the details that are missing in the drawing by analogy with the image on the right or left, or connect the dots, thus obtaining a drawing. It is better when the picture has a plot and an adult tells something exciting in accordance with the plot.
- "I draw myself." Having practiced in all the initial types of drawing, the baby will be ready to draw something himself. And an adult can help him by suggesting a plot for a drawing, giving a task.
Image tricks
Introduce your baby to those image techniques that are easy to master
If you continue to show your baby drawing techniques that are easy to master, this will greatly enrich his pictorial activity. So the child will master what he could not do before. Make sure that the baby's hand is strong, he can hold the pencil firmly enough, quite consciously repeat the strokes he sees. Then show him several image techniques:
- drawing lines (straight, wavy)
- hatching with short straight strokes
- hatching with long vertical and horizontal strokes
- hatching with oblique tear-off and continuous strokes
- hatching with extension strokes
- image of round and rectangular objects
- dabbing (with a brush)
- painting (pencil, brush).
It's good when an adult not only shows the kid how to draw on paper with a pencil or brush, but accompanies the creative process with stories that he understands. For example, drawing different lines, an adult offers to draw a path, a stick, etc. And a wavy line is already a river or sea, smoke from a chimney of a house, a forest path. It is important that the images are familiar to the child.
Watch the video in which the art teacher talks about where to start when teaching kids to draw
How to teach a child to draw in stages
If you decide to teach your child to draw, be prepared for the fact that you will have to do a lot and regularly. This is how skills are developed. Parents themselves will have to depict pictures, because the baby needs to be guided by something. The child will look at the drawings you made and try to repeat them.
"Advice. There is no need to oversimplify the task by drawing objects for the child schematically. If you are drawing a house, then let it be surrounded by a dense forest, flowers, funny little animals. The drawing should be bright and attract the child.
In the phased learning to draw, it is important to voice the plot of the image. In this case, not only fairy tales are well suited, but also poems. So you will also contribute to the development of the speech skills of the baby.
Showing how the simplest lines and geometric shapes are drawn, gradually transform them in front of the child. So the sun will come out of the circle, the roof of the house will come out of the triangle, and the short vertical lines will become grass. This is the basic principle of step-by-step drawing.
See how easy it is to show your child how to draw a chicken:
Know that simple drawing quickly bores children. Do not be lazy to prompt and show the child new techniques, offer new images to consolidate the skill of step-by-step drawing. An interested child will draw better and better.
Pick up a pencil
Teach your child how to use a pencil
To properly organize your child's teaching to draw with a pencil, follow these recommendations:
- Teach your baby to first hold the pencil in his hand in the correct position, and then directly to learning to draw.
- Help first: guide the baby's hand with your hand.
- Start learning with straight and wavy lines, simple shapes, gradually "revive" the drawing.
- As soon as the kid masters the image of simple large forms, gradually complicate the tasks by inviting him to draw small details: a little man near the house or fruit on a tree.
"Advice. While drawing, teach your child to recognize colors, choose and combine them correctly.
Remember that in order to consolidate the skill, you need regular repetition of exercises with a pencil.
We draw with paints
Starting to introduce the child to paints, choose watercolor and gouache
Tips for parents on teaching a child to work with paints:
- Starting to introduce the child to paints, choose watercolor and gouache. These paints are safe for children and wash off easily.
- Provide the baby with brushes of different sizes, which should be made of soft pile. Good pony and squirrel tassels are soft and inexpensive.
- Stock up on thick paper for drawing. The A-3 sheet format is ideal for preschoolers.
- Get your baby a special non-spill cup for washing brushes. Such a glass will not stain your beautiful carpet if the baby accidentally knocks it off the table.
- It's good to have a palette for mixing paints. And at first, a regular plastic plate will do.
- Start the first lesson with a story about paints and brushes. It is better if it is a fairy tale or even a small theatrical performance.
- Tell about flowers, supporting the story with visual materials (colorful pictures). Tell in an accessible way what color it is customary to draw.
- Teach your baby to hold the brush and use it: hold it in your hand, pick up paint, apply it to paper, rinse the brush, blot it. First, let the baby move a dry brush over the paper, practice the degree of pressure and fidelity of movements.
- Start painting using one color at first. Let the kid draw lines - straight and wavy, strokes, simple shapes with closed contours that can be colored. Show how to do priming.
- Learn step by step. When the baby masters drawing in one color, add another one, then another one.
Gradually, the child will learn to draw much more accurately.
When the child draws with two colors, you will see that the drawings are not clear and accurate. It's okay, because the little artist has not yet fully consolidated the skill of depicting clear and neat lines. Multitasking is still beyond the power of the baby: you need to learn how to work with two colors, do not smear, do not go beyond the contour, wash the brush in time, do not pour water. Gradually, the child will learn to do everything much more accurately.
“If an experienced teacher leads the teaching of drawing, then he will contribute to the development of observation, creative imagination, and accuracy in the child.”
The drawings of three-year-olds are chaotic, since they are not yet capable of subject drawing. Do not demand accuracy in drawing and maximum similarity with real objects: all this will be gradually formed if the baby exercises regularly. To keep your child interested in drawing, you need to support him in every possible way and create positive situations related to drawing. Do not scold the baby if he stained clothes or carpet with paints. Clean up the mess together.
It is good when the baby attends a kindergarten or a child development center, where he will be taught to draw simple objects, closed lines, and color the outline.
“It is important that the baby does not get upset if the planned drawing does not work out. Mark what turned out well in the picture, praise the child, comfort if necessary. Suggest to draw on this topic again.
Now you know the simple ways to teach children to draw. Get your kid interested in drawing and create conditions for creative development. So you reinforce the kid's interest in drawing with positive emotions, and soon he will delight you with his masterpieces.
In this article we want to talk about drawing with children from three to four years old. What do you need to keep in mind when drawing with children? How to make the activity fun and exciting? How and with what can you draw?
Let's try to find answers to these questions together.
How to organize a drawing lesson for children 3-4 years old?
- Consider an activity. Play in your mind the entire sequence of what you and the child will do. Stock up on wet wipes, rags, so that if necessary they are at hand.
- Give an example of what should be the result of the lesson. This can make it very easy to explain the material.
- Take a doll, animal or cartoon character and use it to teach a class. Children will be happy to support the puppet teacher and help him.
- Think about what photos, pictures, video and audio materials you can use in class. This will make your lesson fun and interesting.
The best drawing techniques in 3-4 years
Let's look at some drawing techniques for children 3-4 years old.
Hatching
The meaning of this technique is to paint over any area without getting out of the borders of the picture. Hatching is best done with a pencil or pen.
Have your child color the bunny gray.
bunny coloring page
fish coloring page
We paint the fox in red.
Shading
Shading is similar to hatching, but will be done with paints. The meaning is the same - to paint over a certain area. For example, it is very interesting to draw multi-colored circles using plastic cups, and then paint them in the appropriate color.
lines
Straight, wavy, interrupted, spiral, etc. Here is an example of how you can draw the sky, grass and the sun with different lines.
points
This is one of the first techniques that children learn and the most beloved. Children can draw sand, rain, snow, flies, etc. with this technique. For example, you can decorate pineapple with dots using a brush.
Or draw a clover with cotton swabs.
Splashes and blots
If usually for splashes and blots it is considered something not neat, then in this technique everything is just the opposite. Here is an example of a beautiful butterfly from a blot. We put a blot of different colors on paper, and then just folded it in half. However, to get a butterfly pattern, you need to practice a little in applying paint.
But such a monster can be made if you apply paint with a lot of water on a sheet of paper, and then blow on the drops of paint into a tube. Under air pressure, the drop will flow, leaving a mark on the sheet of paper.
An interesting slurry picture is obtained if you apply finger paints or gouache on a sheet of paper.
Then we press them with a transparent film.
By pressing on the paints with a film, you can see how the paints spread and mix. And as a result, we get an interesting pattern!
Watercolor over chalk drawing
The meaning of the technique is to draw a picture with white wax crayon or a candle on white paper. It won't be visible. Then, when a layer of watercolor is applied on top, the drawing begins to magically “appear”.
Kids will certainly be able to draw rain with horizontal lines.
Chalk drawing "Rain"
A real miracle when the spirals drawn in small pieces begin to appear.
Chalk drawing "Spirals"
You can draw fish in the same way, and then cut them out.
Chalk drawing "Fish"
Seals and stamps as a drawing technique
The meaning of the technique is that the drawing on a sheet of paper is applied not with a brush, but with a seal. Let's see what a child print can be made of: An amazing flower can be obtained if folded celery leaves are used for its application.
From the imprint of celery, a very beautiful rose is obtained.
A convenient stamp can be cut out of potatoes, for example, in the form of a leaflet.
Nature itself gives us ideas. If you apply green and brown paints to a branch of cauliflower, then the imprint of cauliflower is very similar to a sprawling tree.
Stamp with a sponge for washing dishes. To do this, dip the sponge into the paint and apply the pattern to the paper.
An imprint of a rubber ball with thorns. Just like when working with a sponge, we dip the ball into the paint and draw it over a sheet of paper, getting a funny dotted print.
The mouth, eyes and ears made of paper will help to revive our drawing.
Finger drawings
You can use your fingers to draw points, lines, cover up a certain area. Here we have decorated the autumn tree with dotted movements.
You can simply smear the paint with your fingers, filling the selected contour.
Pen print drawing
The point of the technique is to make an amazing picture out of a pen print by adding a few extra strokes to the print. For example, we can make green prints and add orange rectangles to them - we get a carrot.
Drawing from prints "Carrot"
Or glue toy eyes to the print and draw a mouth - you get a real goldfish.
Drawing from the print "Fish"
A very touching picture drawn with the palms and fingers of the "nest". Children will be able to draw birds, as well as find out with what love a mother bird hatches testicles and feeds her children.
Drawing with palms and hands "nest"
A very interesting way to draw is to draw something three-dimensional on a large poster or the back of unwanted wallpaper. This way you can do group work.
We looked at several drawing techniques for children aged 3 to 4 years. However, things can go wrong. Paint can spill, water can overturn, clothes get dirty. Try not to get upset or upset the child. Believe - next time everything will work out! A lot just comes with experience.
See how you can draw a hedgehog with a child:
It is better to start drawing from childhood - this is one of the most fertile periods for mastering the basics of fine art.
Step by step drawing for children is a way that will help you develop your child's creative abilities, regardless of his natural abilities.
You will spend many exciting hours learning the basics of drawing step by step and then be able to realize all your creative fantasies.
Staged drawing is a drawing method that allows you to create a drawing sequentially, in stages, from simple to complex.
Sometimes the whole thing stands still simply because the person doesn't know where to start. Often a child asks mom or dad “And draw a turtle”, and the parent would gladly fulfill the wish of the baby, but he doesn’t know how.
And if he had a step-by-step drawing of the same turtle in front of him, he would easily cope with this task.
For children, step-by-step drawing is a good help: firstly, they learn to draw without errors, following a certain procedure, and secondly, in the process of repeated training, they develop an algorithm that will later allow them to accurately depict many things without a diagram.
Finally, it's just very interesting and exciting to watch how a whole image emerges from small shapes and strokes, moreover, failures rarely happen.
How to teach a child to draw in stages?
Of course, at first it would be nice for the parents themselves to master this simple method. And if a child watches how mom or dad tries in creative work, the desire to repeat after the elders will definitely arise.
At first, in the lessons of phased drawing with a child, convenient and understandable schemes are needed.
The essence of the method is that drawing something takes place in several steps.
That is, when drawing a cat, we will not start with a tail or a muzzle, but we will follow a certain pattern that will allow us to avoid mistakes and inaccuracies in proportions.
The easiest way to start mastering step-by-step drawing is with pencil sketches. Paints and pastels will come in handy later.
Lessons of phased drawing at home
To organize the process you will need:
- album for drawing of good quality (dense enough, paper that does not crumple in work);
- pencils of different softness;
- eraser;
- diagrams that show everything clearly.
If pencil drawing has already been mastered, or if you want to immediately move on to pastels or paints, all this should also be available.
Provide a great workplace for a novice artist: a comfortable table and chair, good lighting, and the absence of all distractions. The child should be comfortable.
If there is a board or easel nearby - great, you can attach diagrams there. You can also use a book stand or wall.
Before you start drawing, be sure to tell your child about the following rules:
- you should not rush, everything works out only for those who try;
- you need to act strictly according to the scheme, especially if you are just starting to learn how to draw;
- remember what you are doing, and next time you may not need the scheme;
- start with the simplest, gradually moving to more complex drawings.
Next, we show the child interesting schemes. Offer a choice of several schemes, let the young artist choose what he likes. Remember that it is best to start with simpler schemes: first we master the phased drawing of animals, patterns, and later we move on to drawing a person.
Step by step drawing examples
How to draw a hare
Let's start with a stylized, cartoonish bunny, which is easy for a preschooler to get.
- We draw a large horizontal oval, and under it a small vertical one, but without a top.
- Draw paws to a small oval.
- A small oval and two circles in a large oval - draw a muzzle.
- We draw a nose and pupils - exactly according to the scheme.
- We draw the same ears.
- We draw small details - a mouth, eyebrows, antennae, fingers. The bunny should have a flower in its paw.
- And now, under the paws of the bunny, it remains to draw a skateboard - our bunny is very athletic and mischievous.
Cat drawing
Now let's draw a cute cat.
- First, draw a circle - this will be the head.
- Two triangles on top - ears turned out.
- Inside each triangle is another small one.
- Two dots and a triangle nose - the muzzle begins to be drawn.
- From under the nose, two arches go in different directions - the cat's mouth. Do not forget about the luxurious mustache.
- We draw the torso - we start with an arc.
- We draw a collar for our cat.
- On the other hand, draw the paw.
- It remains to draw one more paw.
- And now you can take pencils or paints and make our cat colored. Ready!
Draw a dog
Now let's draw a charming puppy.
- We start with an oval and a semi-oval, they should not be connected!
- Now draw the eyes and tail.
- Ears, nose, spot around the eye - we continue to draw the muzzle.
- We draw a tongue and connect the head with the body and the ears with the head with thin rectangles.
- We draw paws.
- It remains only to decorate the puppy. That's all!
Draw a rose
- We draw a simple oval on a thin stem.
- We paint on the sides of the stem leaves.
- Draw two main petals inside the oval.
- Inside the petals is the base of the bud, like a rolled roll.
- We draw side, small petals.
- Add colors - and a charming rose is ready!
Drawing a cornflower
- We draw a circle on a thin stem.
- We draw the core and small stems on a large stem.
- We draw buds on the stems. Separate the petals.
- We finish drawing the buds, select the teeth of the petals.
- Erase the circle line with an eraser.
- We paint the cornflower in color.
Drawing a person
This simple diagram will help your child master the proportions in drawing a person.
- We draw the head (oval), neck and triangle - the future base of the body.
- At the bottom of the large triangle is a small triangle, legs (knees are drawn).
- We draw hands, leaning against the marks meaning length.
Tank drawing
Any boy will want to learn how to draw a tank, and it's not difficult at all.
- We draw the base, observing the proportions as much as possible.
- We draw the wheels-caterpillars and the muzzle.
- Let's focus on the small elements.
- With the help of pencils we draw a tank in color.
How to draw a pattern
Perhaps, after mastering the drawing of these elements, the child will be interested in painting on wood - a very interesting, traditional art.
Draw a pattern "Grass Ornament"
- A few curls - this will be the basis of the ornament. They should be even and graceful.
- In two large corners we draw red petals.
- It remains to draw smaller black petals.
Pattern "Leaves"
These elements are present in many samples of Khokhloma painting.
- A thin stem is a small, curved line.
- Draw an elongated oval on the stem in green.
- In the “pair” he has two more leaves, in which we draw the veins in yellow.
So, phased drawing is a method based on order and sketchiness. To fix a certain algorithm in the creative mind of a child, it makes sense to resort to this method. You should start with simple stylized drawings, images of cartoon characters, etc. It is both simple and interesting, and the result will be successful.
When a child has mastered the basics of step-by-step drawing, he may want to continue his creative studies in a fine art studio or art school. A. maybe he will continue to improve his skill in drawing according to the schemes, which will become more complicated.
In this article, you will find many interesting ideas on how to diversify painting lessons with a child and make them interesting and educational.
Eco-friendly paints for children
For children, there are 3 types of safe paints that parents prefer:
- finger
- gouache
- watercolor
It is 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.
The child is interested in exploring something new, but over time he may get bored with the monotonous procedure for painting a sheet with paint. To prevent this from happening, parents need to show the child how to draw more.
There are many ways to paint with the above paints. Various techniques will not let your child get bored and show him a lot of new and interesting things that he has not seen yet.
Finger painting for kids
This is the most interesting activity for the crumbs, because the paint must first be felt before learning how to draw with it. Dip your index finger in the paint and put spots on paper with them, draw a flower or a caterpillar with them. Draw lines with your finger, make rays near the sun. Show your child that you can draw like this and let him create on his own, let him draw what he wants.
Drawing with a brush for children
When the child can already hold a brush in his hands, show him how to draw with it. Explain to the child that before taking a new color, it needs to be washed. Take the paint on a brush and apply it to a sheet of paper. Try to draw with brushes of different sizes and shapes, see what kind of pattern you get.
You can draw 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, and a cotton swab. Dip your tool in the paint and quickly touch the paper with it. You can decorate simple pictures with this technique, kids really like this activity, besides, it is very useful for the development of fine motor skills of the hands.
Drawing with stamps for children
Apply paint to the stamp and attach it to the paper, press down. The imprint of the picture will remain on the paper. Show your child how to work with it. Stamps can be painted in different colors, instead of ready-made dies, you can use homemade ones. For example, to make circles with a straw, you can use figures from sorters, parts from a designer, and even cut vegetables and fruits. 
A very interesting texture is obtained if, instead of a stamp, you use an ordinary napkin with pimples. Dip it in the paint and, as if blotting, walk it over a sheet of paper.
foam drawing
Cut off a piece of foam rubber and dip it into the paint, then press it against the paper and remove it. You can draw lines, paint over some shapes. Show your child how to draw. Also, the child will 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. So you can, while playing, learn not only colors, but also shapes. Then complicate the task, try to draw ornaments, first of two shapes, then use more shapes.
Drawing on wet paper
Dampen a sheet of drawing paper with water. Now paint on it. The contours of the lines blur, become fuzzy, smooth transitions and haze are excellent. Just do not overdo it with water, it would 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 put 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 in one color or different. Fold the sheet along the fold line and run your fingers from the center of the pattern to its edge. At the same time, you can say something like "sim-salabim."
Unfold the sheet and show the baby what you got. When the child grows up a little, you can ask him what he sees in the picture, what he reminds him of. When the drawing dries, you can draw small details with a felt-tip pen or circle the outline. It develops imagination and abstract thinking very well.
Threadography
To do this, you will need a sheet of thick paper and woolen thread. Bend the sheet in half and unfold, lower the thread into a jar of paint, then put it on paper and fold it. Move the thread, pressing the leaf with your palm. Expand and see what happens. You will see chaotic strokes of paint, examine them with your child, maybe you will see some familiar objects in them, circle them and finish the details, say what they are called. The combination of creativity, mental and speech work will help your child develop intellectually.
Wax drawing
This is a very common and interesting technique. Draw a picture on a piece of paper with wax crayon or a piece of wax candle, and then paint over this sheet of paper with paint with your child. Since the wax is oily, its paint will not paint over and you will see your drawing. Using this method, you can also make secret notes or write congratulations.
Waxing and painting technique
Put something under a sheet of paper, such as a coin or other embossed object, and rub the sheet with wax, paint over it with paint and you will get an image of the object.
Salt drawings
Sprinkle the finished drawing with salt. When the paint dries, the salt will remain on the sheet and give an interesting texture to the drawing. In this way, you can make a 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 like living, translucent.
Drawings with masking tape
Molar tape sticks well and peels off paper, so it can be used in drawing and get interesting effects. For example, you can make a birch forest: cut tree trunks from adhesive tape, you can stick knots and branches from the remnants, stick adhesive tape on a sheet of paper. From above, paint everything with paint, when it dries, remove the adhesive tape, white stripes will remain under it. it remains to add details and the forest is ready!
You can cut out something more complicated, such as houses and draw a whole city. Scotch tape is good in that it can be used instead of a stencil, but paint streaks are unlikely to fall under it, and you don’t 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 with cling film
Yes, yes, with the help of cling film, you can also make amusing drawings. Lay it on a sheet of paper covered with wet paint, and move around a little. When you remove it, you will see interesting abstractions that resemble crystals.
Blowing paint through tubes
Dilute the paint with water to make it thinner. Take one or two colors. Drop the paint on the sheet and blow into the tube, directing it in different directions at the paint. The drawing will resemble the interweaving of tree branches, or you can add a face and it will be hair - let the child dream up.
Painting over drawings
Draw some animal on a piece of paper and ask the child to hide it, but first show how: paint over it completely with paint. At the same time, 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 the baby how you can help the mouse? Of course, it must be hidden. And ask him to do it.
leaf pattern
Very interesting way to draw. To do this, you will need leaves from trees. Apply paint on the leaves, you can paint with different colors, attach a piece of 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 be not only fun, but also informative, educational and useful.
In addition to paints, there are also other drawing tools. Your baby will definitely like wax pencils, felt-tip pens, crayons. More details about visual and other types of creativity are described in the article.
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