ISO. Lesson notes, creative activities in the younger group

We started drawing at about 1 year old. At first Antoshka did it with finger paints in the bathroom. A couple of months later, my husband made an easel, and my son became acquainted with brushes and gouache.

Basically, the child draws whatever he wants with the materials he wants or that I provide. Free drawing should be practiced as often as possible. But don't stop there.

In this article I will share drawing ideas with children aged 1 – 3 years old, I will talk about various techniques for drawing with paints, pencils and other materials, even shaving foam.

You can also download coloring pages for little ones and templates for finger painting.

I won’t talk at length about the benefits of drawing with children. I think you already know very well that it develops the child’s imagination, creativity, improves hand coordination and fine motor skills of the fingers.

How to draw with a child 1-3 years old

In the article about applications, I talked about the book by E.A. Yanushko . This author also has a book called Drawing with Young Children (Labyrinth). This is an excellent teaching tool for parents and teachers, and it also comes with a CD with demonstration materials.

The book presents a methodology for conducting drawing classes with children 1 – 3 years old . I take many ideas from her.

Before you start drawing with your child, here are some simple tips from me:

• Show your child various drawing techniques (pokes, strokes, stamping, etc.) gradually, starting with the simplest ones.
• I highly recommend buying or making your own easel for painting. It is relevant as soon as the child learns to walk.
• Draw as often as possible.
• Use a variety of drawing materials.
• Try to immediately teach your child to hold a brush and pencil correctly. But if the child stubbornly refuses to do this, do not insist.
• Give your child maximum freedom. Let the child draw what he wants and how he wants. Never demand that he draw the way you want. Below I will talk about various drawing techniques with children, but if the child refuses to do something, do not insist.

Don't correct your child! Let him draw purple skies and red grass. So what if cows don't fly and there are no fences on the rainbow? Your child's mind is still free from cliches. He is a true creator.

We draw by dots, developing skills gradually

Drawing lines with a pencil or pen is an excellent practice that helps accustom your hand to writing, develop small muscles, and teach your baby to hold something tightly.

The dotted line serves as a guide and helps the child, because at any time you can slow down the speed of drawing, increase or decrease the pressure on the pencil, without spoiling the picture, and, therefore, without losing interest.

As soon as the child learns to draw lines, straight lines and all kinds of waves using points, move on to shapes and then to animals. The curves of the dotted lines will develop drawing skills enough to begin learning how to spell letters and numbers.

How to draw with your child

The more different art materials you use, the better.

You need to start with the easiest to learn (for example, finger paints), eventually reaching regular pencils.

We draw on:

• plain paper
• old wallpaper,
• easel,
• magnetic board,
• plaster figures for coloring,
• wood, plywood,
• fabrics,
• tiles in the bathroom and in the bath itself.

For drawing with children 1 – 3 years old, you can use the following materials :

• Finger paint;
• gouache, watercolor (and, accordingly, brushes of different sizes);
• felt-tip pens (water-based and regular);
• crayons (wax and regular);
• wax pencils;
• dry pastel;
• pencils (preferably soft ones);
• gel and ballpoint pens;
• foam rubber, sponges;
• cotton swabs and cotton wool;
• stamps;
• semolina;
• shaving foam.

You will also need a glass for water (preferably a sippy cup) and a palette for mixing paints.

How else to develop fine motor skills, besides drawing with dots?

If your child for some reason is not interested in dot-to-dot materials, you can have fun developing fine motor skills in other ways.

1. String large beads together on strings or sort through the beads;
2. Glue a large sheet of paper or old wallpaper onto the wall and let your child draw his own pictures on the sheet. Drawing on a vertical surface requires more effort and the pens are trained faster;
3. As soon as your child is already able to hold small things firmly enough in his hands and does not let go of them if he pulls lightly, start teaching him how to tie shoelaces or braid braids from any ribbons or ropes;
4. If you read newspapers or magazines, give your child a marker and encourage him to circle all the headlines with it;
5. A good grip between the thumb and forefinger is most easily developed by transferring beans or even peas from one bowl to another, using only two fingers rather than the entire palm.
6. Frosty windows or foggy bathroom mirrors are a great place to learn to draw with your index finger.

If you wish, you can use each of the ways to develop your child’s fine motor skills in everyday life, this will help him learn to write faster in the future.

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Drawing techniques with paints and pencils

All drawing techniques involve the use of different materials depending on the age and capabilities of the child. We give paints, crayons, felt-tip pens to very young children, and pencils, etc. to older children.

I list all the techniques in order of increasing complexity .

Free drawing

My son calls this kind of drawing “scribbles”.

We introduce the child to drawing materials and give him the opportunity to experiment. At the same time, there is no need to give any tasks to draw something specific.

Practice free drawing as often as possible at any age of the child. It perfectly develops imagination.

Painting a sheet

We give the child paints, crayons, etc. and we suggest drawing:

• grass for the cow,
• water for fish,
• sand, snow.

The child needs to paint over the sheet, and not draw individual blades of grass, etc. Even a one-year-old can cope with this task.

paint rollers here - plain or shaped.

Shading an element

We draw a base (small images of animals and various objects) and ask the child to hide them by painting them over:

• hide the mouse, bunny, fish, bug;
• hide the moon and stars, the sun, the car.

With very young children it is interesting to do this with a sponge; with children over 2 years old it is useful to paint over elements with pencils.

Drawing points

Pre-draw the basis for the drawing - a bird that the child will feed, a bush on which berries will grow, etc.

Invite your child to draw: grains, berries, snow, raindrops, a bagel with poppy seeds, freckles, polka dots on a dress.

Drawing lines

• Direct: rays of the sun, stems of flowers, tops of carrots, fence, cage, path, rails, paws of bugs, needles of a cactus, teeth of a comb.
• Wavy: boat waves, worms, octopus legs, car tracks, hair.
• Broken: slides, a fence, icicles, a road with turns, thorns for a hedgehog.

Draw circles, ovals

Balls, apples, candies, Christmas tree decorations, beads, balloons, rowan berries, berries, bubbles, eggs, cones.

Drawing Spirals

Invite your child to draw: a snail's house, smoke, a bee's flight, curls, sheep's rings, threads.

Finishing the drawing

Antoshka really likes to play this game: I say that one boy drew different figures, but did not finish them, and I suggest that my son finish them. He does this with great pleasure. This is how we finish drawing:

• geometric figures;
• I draw a road (a broken line) and Antoshka repairs it,
• any simple and understandable drawings.

Drawing simple stories

This is the most difficult stage in mastering drawing. Here the child combines different drawing techniques according to the instructions of an adult.

Take turns asking your child to draw different elements that will eventually turn into something specific. But give your child as much freedom as possible.

The purpose of such drawing is to show the child how the finished image appears step by step.

Album “Options for non-traditional drawing techniques with children 4-5 years old

State budgetary preschool educational institution kindergarten No. 43, Kolpinsky district of St. Petersburg

Options for non-traditional drawing techniques with children 4-5 years old

Prepared by the teacher:

Gurina. A.A.

St. Petersburg, Kolpino

2020

Finger painting (fingergraphy)

Tactile sensations are, along with visual impressions, the leading way of understanding objects and phenomena around us. Therefore, special attention is paid to fingergraphy in kindergarten. But if in the younger groups children made dotted strokes, for example, painted peas on an umbrella, then in the middle group the children learn to draw lines, spots of different sizes, strokes, and also paint over certain elements of the drawing.

At the beginning of the year, children in the middle group repeat making dots with their fingers and train the skill of making round elements

In the middle group, the practice of finger drawing according to a pattern is introduced. The teacher tells, shows and hangs up an algorithm of actions on the board, how to draw an animal or a person using prints and dots-squiggles made with a pencil.

Schemes of step-by-step finger painting are presented in the book by I. Molnar “Imprint, dot, stroke. We paint with our fingers."

For fingerprinting, gouache is usually used, since it does not require dilution with water, is thick and produces bright shades. However, you can also use special hypoallergenic paints for finger painting, as well as watercolors. When working with the latter, before dipping your finger into the paint, you need to moisten it with water or drop some water into a container with watercolors.

Finger painting technique

The sequence of work in the fingergraphy technique is as follows:

1. Dip your finger into the paint can.
2. Using each finger we pick up paints of different shades. Remove excess with a damp cloth.
3. Using your fingertips, apply the design to the sheet.
4. After finishing work, wash your hands with soap.

In addition to berries and leaves, kids can also use their fingers to draw lines to depict branches.

Palm painting

As with finger painting, palm painting involves creating an imprint and adding to it using brushes. In the middle group, the imprint becomes the basis for creating various objects: birds, foliage, fish, etc. In addition, with your palms you can create elements such as leaves on trees, flowers in a vase, hedgehog needles, etc.

Palm drawing technique

For palm painting, the drawing algorithm will be as follows:

1. Place your palm in the saucer with paint. In the second semester, children learn to create multi-colored prints with one hand, so the paint will be applied with a brush held in their free hand. The skill of such multi-colored prints is developed in lessons on the topic “Bullfinch”, “Butterfly”, etc.

2. Press your palm firmly against the sheet, if necessary, slightly turn it in a circle, horizontally or vertically.

3.After finishing work, wash your hands with soap.

Drawing birds with their palms, the children add details made with a brush - beak, legs

Poking drawing

This technique is indispensable when creating “fluffy” or “spiky” images. Needles on a hedgehog, fur on a kitten, Christmas trees, dandelions - all these images acquire a special flavor thanks to the poking technique.

Poking technique

To create a poke:

1. Place a dry brush with stiff bristles into a jar of gouache.
2. Holding the brush vertically, we make a sharp blow to the paper.
3. Rinse the brush and blot with a napkin.

The poke can only be done with a dry or semi-dry brush.

Toothbrush painting technique

To obtain voluminous, multi-layered designs, a toothbrush is used. Having collected the paint, we brush it across the sheet, focusing on the design.

In the middle group, drawing with a toothbrush is usually combined with the use of the poking method, appliqué or drawing with cotton swabs.

Toothbrush drawings in the middle group are usually made on a colored background

Monotype

This unconventional technique involves creating a picture by imprinting part of the design on the blank half of a folded sheet. At the age of 4–5, through monotype, children begin to master landscapes, which they will work with in older groups, train the ability to find the middle of an object, and develop the skill of seeing symmetry.

At the same time, not only symmetrical, but also paired objects are created in this way. To do this, a whole image is drawn on one half of the sheet, which is also completely printed on the second side.

Monotype technique

To create a monotype image:

1. We bend the sheet in the middle - vertically or horizontally, depending on the location of the depicted object.
2. Unbend and draw a picture on one half.
3. We bend the sheet again and iron it with our hands.
4. We expand and supplement the resulting image with the necessary elements. For example, let’s make a blue background for a river in which a forest is displayed.

In the drawing of a forest reflected in a lake, after unfolding the sheet, children draw a green strip of grass.

Spray

The essence of the technique is that kids pick up paint with a brush or comb, and, pointing it at the sheet, run a pencil along the bristles, thus painting the space of the drawing.

To create a one-color image from several elements, stencils are applied simultaneously

In the middle group, children become familiar with the concepts of foreground and background. For this, the multilayer spray method, which involves the use of stencils, will be an indispensable assistant.

Methodology for working with multi-layer spraying

To make a multi-layer spray:

1. We attach the stencil to the sheet using paper clips.
2. Take the paint with a brush.
3. Let's spray.
4. Apply another stencil.
5. Spray a different color.
6. We remove the stencils - the image turned out to be voluminous and multifaceted.

For multi-layer spraying, you can use stencils of the same image, but of different sizes, then you will get a flickering effect

Scratch

The technique involves scratching image lines on a paper substrate coated with paint according to a pattern previously applied with wax crayons.

Grattage technique

The procedure for creating a grattage drawing will be as follows:

1. Color the drawing with wax crayons.
2. Fill the surface of the sheet with black paint or ink.
3. Leave to dry.
4. Using a stick with a sharp end (for example, a wooden kebab skewer), we scratch the lines to reveal the design.

Drawing through gauze

Drawing through wet gauze does not require the use of unusual tools; the picture is created with a brush and paints.

Technique for drawing through gauze

To create a drawing using the original technique:

1. We moisten the sheet with pieces of wet cotton wool or cotton pads.
2. Place gauze on the paper and straighten it well.
3. We create the drawing as usual.
4. Let it dry, remove the gauze - the image becomes textured.

When painting through gauze, you need to apply the paint generously, as some of the “color” will disappear after removing the fabric.

Drawing with glue and semolina

We mark the indicated contours of the drawing with glue, pour in semolina and press it on top with a clean sheet. Remove the top sheet and shake off the remaining cereal. The elements are filled in one by one.

In the middle group, with this type of drawing, kids practice the ability to outline a stencil and apply glue exactly within the boundaries of the image.

The substrate for drawing semolina should be colored, since the grain will be invisible against a white background.

Wax painting

In the middle group, kids draw lines, spots and simple geometric shapes with a candle.

Wax painting technique

To create a candle design:

1. We draw the outlines of the design on a white sheet with a candle.
2. Paint the sheet with any colors.
3. The wax lines remain unpainted and appear on the substrate.

Drawing with a wax candle is usually used in winter-themed lessons.

A variation of this technique is drawing with wax crayons. The process technology will be the same, but the wax pencils are multi-colored, so the drawings after filling with paint will be brighter.

For painting with wax, it is better to take watercolor paper, since children may not calculate the degree of moisture in the brush, and the sheet may break through.

Blotography

The essence of the technique is to obtain pictures based on spots and blots. Spots can either be used to decorate a design as intended, or can be used as a basis for an image in a traditional style.

Blotography technique

To create blots:

1. Dip the wet brush into the paint.
2. Make a stain or place a drop.
3. Blow from a cocktail straw onto the paint, blowing it in the desired direction.

In the middle group, kids learn to inflate thin elements from a spot, for example, tree branches

Drawing with foam rubber

To highlight the texture of the depicted object - clusters of flowers, curly clouds - the method of applying paint with foam rubber (or a piece of sponge) is used. To prevent the sponge from getting your hands dirty, it is clamped with a clothespin that acts as a handle.

Stamping technique using natural materials

A whole vegetable (onion, corn, potato, cucumber, etc.) or fruit, berry (apple, lemon, feijoa, etc.), cut in half, flowers (daisies), shells, is painted and an imprint is created on paper. This technique is convenient for drawing cross-sections of fruits and vegetables. For example, to create the composition “Grandma’s Compote,” kids draw the outlines of a pan with a pencil, and depict fruits with stamps.

Sponge painting

The child can hold the sponge with his hands or with a regular clothespin.

Simple sponge painting:

• waves, sand, snowy landscape, grass, paths - by smearing;
• snow, leaves - poked;
• we hide bugs, fish, etc. - by painting.

Sponge stamps . Draw the shape you want on the sponge - a triangle, a tree, or even letters. Cut it out. Invite your child to dip a sponge in gouache and make an imprint on paper.

Drawing with semolina

I talked about drawing with semolina in articles about games with semolina, as well as about applications for children 1 – 3 years old. There are two ways to draw with semolina:

1 way . You need to pour a little semolina onto a surface with sides: a tray, a baking sheet, a lid from under a large shoe box. And then the child draws simple images with a finger or a brush - waves, paths, circles, etc., makes fingerprints or various objects.

Method 2 . Print out a coloring book for the little ones. Invite your child to apply glue to the image and sprinkle it with semolina. It will be more like coloring with semolina. But you can simply give your child a brush with glue and let him randomly apply it to the sheet, and then pour in semolina, shake it and see what pattern he gets.

I paint semolina with gouache. Instead of semolina, you can use sand for children's creativity.

Coloring pages for kids

On the Internet, I have repeatedly come across the opinion that children should not be given coloring books before school. Allegedly, they interfere with the child’s creative development. Some parents are simply afraid to give coloring books to their children, while others have a real phobia.

I don't see anything wrong with coloring books . But rather only benefit if used in moderation. And give the main priority to free drawing, which I mentioned above.

Offer your kids simple coloring books that use 1-2 colors. From 1.5 years old, you can try coloring books that involve the use of several colors. But all the same, the elements in them must be large. And you need to paint them, of course.

But it’s better to color small images with pencils or felt-tip pens, because the child simply won’t have the patience for large ones.

At 1–2 years old, children are also interested in water coloring books (Labyrinth, My-shop).

There are ready-made regular coloring books on sale (Labyrinth, My-shop).

You can also DOWNLOAD COLORING PAGES for kids in one file.

Dotted coloring pages

The elements of each outline are given in a simple form - the child just needs to trace the lines depicting certain geometric shapes along the contour. An older child will be able to color the characters or try to complete the element on their own, continuing to draw it after this sample.

Game tasks will help coordinate the movements of children's hands and teach them how to properly hold a pencil and regulate the pressure when drawing.

The child is asked to trace the outline of the drawing using dots and dotted lines, and after the drawing takes on a holistic appearance, color it at his own discretion.

Drawing stamps

All children draw with stamps with great pleasure. You can make them yourself. For example, from sponges for washing dishes, vegetables. You can use improvised objects and toys as stamps.

Or you can buy ready-made stamps or even entire drawing sets (Labyrinth, My-shop).

I really hope you found this article helpful. Draw with your child and then he will also love this activity. Which drawing method does your child like best?

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• Applications for children 1 - 3 years old
• Games with semolina
• Games with cereals, pasta and beans

How to organize a drawing lesson for children 3-4 years old?

• Think about the activity. Play out in your mind the entire sequence of what you and your child will do. Stock up on wet wipes and cloths so that you have them at hand if necessary.
• Give an example of what should happen as a result of the lesson. This can make it very easy to explain the material.
• Take a doll, animal or cartoon character and conduct an activity with its help. Children will be happy to support and help the puppet teacher.
• Think about what photographs, pictures, videos and audio materials you can use in class. This will make your lesson fun and interesting.