Painting techniques. Painting with children

In this article you will find a lot of interesting ideas, how to diversify classes in drawing paints with a child and make them interesting and informative.

Drawing is very important for the development of the child and for his self-expression.

Ecologically safe paints for children

For children there are 3 types of safe paints, which parents prefer:

• finger
• gouache
• watercolor

To start better with finger paints, they are suitable for younger children. More details about them you can find from the article Finger paints. The use of paints for the development of the child. 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 of painting the 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 colors listed above. Different techniques will not let your child get bored and show him a lot of new and interesting things that he has not yet seen.

Drawing with fingers for children

This is the fun part for crumbs, because you have to touch the paint first, before you learn how to draw it. Dip your index finger in the paint and put them spots on the paper, draw a flower or caterpillar. Draw your finger on the line, make the rays in the sun. Show the child that you can draw so and let him create, let him draw what he wants.

Drawing with a brush for children

When the child can already hold a brush in handles, show him how to draw it. Explain to the child that before taking a new color, you need to wash it. Take the paint on the brush and put it on a sheet of paper. Try to draw different in size and shape with brushes, see what drawing is obtained.

Draw using the brush in the following ways:

• priming - apply a brush with paint to the paper and immediately remove, as if dipping, these movements are applied to color spots and the drawing is produced
• drawing with strokes - draw a brush with line paint in any directions, the length of lines can bevarious
• drawing on a previously drawn sketch with a pencil - first draw the main lines and shapes in pencil, and then paint

Point drawing for children

Show how you can drawamb points, for this you can use a brush, and a finger, and a cotton swab. Dip your instrument in the paint and quickly-touch it with paper. You can decorate simple pictures with this technique, kids like this activity very much, besides it is very useful for the development of fine motor skills of hands.

Drawing stamps for children

Apply the paint to the die and attach it to the paper, press. On paper there will be an imprint of a picture. Show the baby how to work with it. Stamps can be painted in different colors, instead of finished dies you can use homemade ones. For example, to make circles with a straw, you can use figures from sorter, detail from the designer and even cut vegetables and fruits.

Very interesting texture is obtained if instead of a die use a regular napkin with pimples. Dip it in the paint and, as if promakivaya, walk it on a sheet of paper.

Drawing with foam rubber

Cut a piece of foam rubber and dip it into the paint, then press it against the paper and clean it. You can draw lines, paint some shapes. Show the baby how they can draw. Also, the child will be interested if you make from foam rubber different geometric shapes. You can attach them to a pencil or a stick and use them as stamps. So you can play, 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 piece of drawing paper with water. Now paint on it with paint. The contours of the lines blur, become indistinct, smooth transitions and haze are perfectly obtained. Do not overdo it with water, it will be better if you wipe it with a wet fleece. This technique is good for paintings with rain, images of fog, colors behind the curtain.

Kleksografiya

Teach the 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 and put a few blobs on the fold, you can make them in one color or different. Fold the sheet along the fold line and draw your fingers from the center of the drawing to its edge. You can say something like "sim-salabim".

Expand the sheet and show the kid what you got. When the child grows a little, you can ask him what he sees in the picture that he reminds him. When the drawing dries, you can draw small parts with a felt-tip pen or traverse a contour. This very well develops imagination and abstract thinking.

Nitcogram

To do this you will need a sheet of thick paper and a woolen thread. Sheet bend in half and unfold, thread a little in a jar of paint, then put it on paper and fold it. Turn the thread, pressing the palm leaf. Unfold and see what happened. You will see chaotic brush strokes, consider them with the child, maybe you will see some familiar objects in them, circle them and paint details, say what they are called. The combination of creativity, mental and speech work will help your child to develop intellectually.

Drawing with wax

This is a very common and interesting technique. Draw a picture on a piece of paper with a wax crayon or a piece of a wax candle, and then paint with a child this sheet of paper with paint. Since the wax is greasy, its paint will not paint over and you will see your drawing. In this way, you can still make secret notes or write congratulations.

Waxing and drawing technique

Place something under a piece of paper, such as a coin or other relief item, and grate the sheet with a wax, paint it over the 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 drawing. In this way, you can make a 3D image, for example, select a stone or a path on the image. On the blue paint, the salt will look like snowflakes, if you sprinkle the green leaves with salt, they will become as living, translucent.

Drawings with paint tape

Molar tape is well adhered and peeled from the paper, so it can be used in drawing and getting interesting effects. For example, you can make a birch forest: cut tree trunks from scotch, stickers and twigs can be pasted from leftovers, sticking tape on a piece of paper. From above, paint all the paint, when it dries, remove the scotch, under it there will be white stripes.left to add details and the forest is ready!

You can cut something more complicated, like houses and draw a whole city. Scotch is good because it can be used instead of a stencil, but it is unlikely to get streaked with paint, and you do not need to fix it in addition.

You can also use scotch as a frame for drawing, when you remove it, the edges of the picture will be clear and it will be neat.

Drawing drawings with food film

Yes, with the help of food film, you can also make entertaining drawings. Spread it on a sheet of paper, covered with wet paint, and drive a little to the sides. When you remove it, you will see interesting abstractions resembling crystals.

Pouring paint through tubing

Dilute the paint with water to make it softer. Take one or two colors. Pip the paint on the sheet and blow it into the tube, pointing it in different directions to the paint. Painted will resemble the weave of tree branches, or you can add a little face and it will be your hair - let your child dream up.

Painting drawings

Draw on a piece of paper some little creature and ask the child to hide it, just show it first: paint it completely with paint. You can tell a story, for example, that there was a mouse, she went for a tasty cheese, and she was waiting for a cat that wanted to eat a mouse. And ask the kid how to help the mouse? Of course, it must be hidden. And ask him to do it.

Drawing leaf

Very interesting way of drawing. For this you will need leaves from the trees. Put the paint on the leaves, you can paint with different colors, attach a sheet of paint to the paper and press, then carefully remove. You can make such a beautiful forest.

If you include a little imagination, you will come up with a lot of new ideas, with which drawing will not only be fun, but also cognitive, educational and useful.

In addition to paints, there are also other tools for drawing. Your kid will definitely like wax pencils, markers, crayons. More details about the visual and other forms of creativity described in the article How does creativity affect the development of the child? How and what does the child do?

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