Painting is a game, an indispensable game in children's lives;
Painting, which is the main medium through which children express their emotions, emotions and thoughts;
Drawing can increase children's happy, relaxed and pleasant emotional experience;
Painting is the best medium for children to go from the dream world to the real world;
Drawing also promotes the development of children's five abilities – hands-on, coordination, language, emotions, and social skills.
Since drawing is a child's play and work, every child is born to draw, and according to this reasoning, as long as the child is provided with pen and paper, the child can draw. In fact, too, you give a two- or three-year-old a piece of paper and pen, and as long as they haven't been taught how to draw by adults, they can draw freely and fluidly. On the contrary, it is those older children who have the desire and urge to draw, but they dare not draw and do not know how to draw.
1. If a child is born to draw, then why do many children not know or dare not draw?
These children who are afraid of drawing will not be able to draw, and the fundamental reason is that adults are often disturbed by adults in the process of drawing, or blame children for not drawing well enough, or let them paint according to the wishes of adults, or constantly interfere with their painting, so that they are repeatedly frustrated in painting, and over time, they will lose interest, and even dare not write with a brush.
I have found that in a more relaxed family environment, children who are restricted and controlled are very rich and fluent in painting; Conversely, children who are more controlled behave less easily during the drawing process.
Children can't draw, dare not draw, can't draw, don't like to draw, these are the effects that the environment of growth cannot bring to them, that is, if they cannot free their minds, they cannot draw to their heart's content.
2. How to train children to draw?
Places that provide freedom, protection, and restrictions
For children to draw, the most important thing is to give them a suitable environment for painting.
Free environment: Let children draw at will, rather than let them draw at will, they can paint as they please, unless there are special conditions. Freedom here refers to complete respect for children's thoughts, feelings, imagination and expression.
Protection of the environment: The emancipation of children's minds presupposes that they can feel a sense of security, which refers to a sense of spiritual security. Therefore, we pay special attention to the cultivation of teacher-student relationship, and our basic principle is: "Feelings are higher than rules, and feelings are the root of laws." "Only when students and teachers have established a deep connection will they let go of themselves, let go of themselves, express their emotions and thoughts to their heart's content, and play drawing to their heart's content.
Limited environment: freedom, which has no end, without any constraints, breeds human evil and pushes humanity into the abyss of depravity. Imagine, if a child has unlimited time, infinite space, unlimited paper, unlimited drawing utensils, can he still draw? If everything is infinite, it doesn't make any sense. If there is no end to life, life has no meaning; If there were endless resources, life would be meaningless; If painting has no boundaries, there is no point in painting.