How many children have signed up for art classes during kindergarten? Raise a paw!
A friend of the Easter egg father complained that from the beginning of his child's entry into the middle class, the child signed up for a painting class, studied for a year, and found that the painting brought back by the child was more exquisite than the other.
Baby Daddy said: "Fortunately, I signed up for a painting class, look, my girl is an artist!" ”
The baby mother was also excited to let the child create a painting at home, and then the parents were dumbfounded. If the paintings painted at school belong to the level of "painting gods", then those painted at home must be the "painting slag" series.
Friends once doubted that this painting training class had paid the IQ tax?
In fact, there are not a few parents who have such ideas, and the Easter egg father saw a parent posting his child's work on the Internet, which is also a series of "painting God at school, painting slag at home".
Look, this was painted at school.
Isn't it great to draw?
Look again.
This level, among kindergarten children, is definitely at the top of the list.
Is it a "painting god"?
Let's take a look at the paintings we painted at home!
One second reverts to the "painting slag" level.
So, what is the significance of the painting training class? Moreover, what parents can't imagine is that many training courses will only "kill" the nature of children.
01 Children's painting development process
Before enrolling their children in painting classes, parents must understand what stage of their children's current painting development is.
There are four stages in the development of children's painting, including: graffiti period, symbol period, pattern period, and realism period.
Before the age of 3: Graffiti period
The baby's painting at this time is characterized by: there is no regularity to follow.
During the graffiti period, the baby mainly uses the rapid repetition of the arm to let him get a rhythmic sense of pleasure and satisfaction. Moreover, in the eyes of parents, very simple lines and figures actually represent the child's hand-eye coordination and visual perception ability that is constantly developing, because these may be symbols in the eyes of children.
3-5 years old: symbolic period
From a psychological point of view, children at this time have the characteristics of figurative thinking. A child's painting may not be understood by parents, but let the child tell it himself, and he can tell a very interesting story.
In the process of painting, the child connects and processes his cognition with things.
This stage is also a critical period for the cultivation of children's "imagination".
5-8 years: Schema period
At this age, children mainly draw feature drawings, symbols, etc. Children's words can reflect the main characteristics of a thing, such as tall, fat and thin, and will also use symbols, such as cars, trees, etc.
Compared with the symbolic period, the child's words at this stage are more specific and the characteristics are more distinct.
Similarly, in children's paintings, they carry children's thoughts, emotions, etc., which is something that cannot be learned in any painting class.
After the age of 8: The period of realism
From a psychological point of view, children at this age have transformed from image thinking to abstract logical thinking. They are eager to get rid of "childishness", eager to take the level of painting to a higher level - to paint like.
At this point, drawing is no longer a game, but a real interest.
02 Painting class, should I go to class?
Based on the development process of children's painting, can parents judge whether their children should go to painting classes?
Before the age of 8, painting is a game, a game that can cultivate children's interests and imagination in all aspects. How many training institutions will cultivate children's drawing ability from the aspects of interest, imagination and so on?
The vast majority of training institutions either secretly draw well for children, or print good children to color, or guide children how to draw at each step.
The work was handed over to the parents, and the parents were very happy: Wow, my baby painting is awesome! Keep going!
However, the child's creativity and imagination are destroyed step by step in the "step by step". Children's interest in painting will gradually fade.
Therefore, if you really want your child to learn to draw and cultivate some artistic cells, then parents can do two things:
First, before the age of 8, cultivate and protect children's interest in painting and imagination;
Second, after the age of 8, according to the child's interests, time and other factors, to choose whether to go to the training class.
03 3-8 years old, how to do painting enlightenment
In fact, painting enlightenment for children at home is both simple and cheap, and the baby still has fun, and it will not cost the mother, even if the grandparents are at home, it is very easy to operate.
Easter egg dad knows a retired art teacher, and some parents come to her to ask her to tutor her children to draw, but this retired art teacher only accepts children above elementary school, because she feels that children are too small and should play by themselves.
How to play?
The retired art teacher recommended a set of "Art Creative Art Album" for her 4-year-old granddaughter.
Many children in the community have this set of large albums.
There are a total of 8 books in the "Art Creative Art Album", and the paintings are also very large, and there is enough space for children to play and create.
The mode of painting design is to use the method of explanation + practice.
Every painting has a theme, which can open the child's "imagination brain" to observe and imagine. And then on the second page, there's authoring.
In this process, what parents need to do is to explain the theme and then "let it play".
For example, this rabbit, the theme requirement is to use cotton on the rabbit. But it was spring, and there was a big bouquet of flowers in the house, and the child said, "The rabbit will also enjoy spring, and when it passes through the flowers, it will definitely fall into a petal and become a petal rabbit!" ”
So, a spring petal rabbit was created.
Although there are themes and requirements, this will not limit any imagination of children. On the contrary, this "semi-open" painting environment not only makes children interested in painting, but also makes it easier to open up their imagination.
If you change it to a painting training class, I'm sorry, you have to make a rabbit out of cotton, so that parents will feel like it.
In this large album, many common supplies in life will be used, such as cotton swabs, paper balls, etc., and use all things in life to create, which can make children observe life more carefully and have a richer imagination.
Of course, parents also need to prepare sufficient painting tools for their children, such as paints, crayons, watercolor pens, etc. Painting is not just about creating with a pen. For example, in the picture above, the child uses his fingers to glue the paint, and then uses his fingers to "draw" a grain of corn, and finally becomes a sweet and delicious corn.
That night, our dinner was corn, and the Easter egg happily told his creation!
For children aged 3-8, according to the development of painting, their focus is not to master painting skills, but to recognize color, exercise pen skills, and develop imagination and creativity!
This is also the original intention of this set of "Art Creative Art Album", if your family also has 3-8 years old children, quickly take away this set of "Art Creative Art Album", take the child to "play painting"!