Drawing with kids: expert advice, a system of game activities, ideas

Drawing with kids: expert advice. Main steps, a system of game tasks and activities, ideas and themes, rules for drawing with children from 1 to 3 years old.

Drawing with kids

Drawing for kids from 1 to 3 years old is an exciting game, discovering new colors of the world, beauty of lines and shapes, color spots, experimentation. The sooner your child starts drawing, the better. And the point here is not only in the development of fine motor skills, but how much in the great influence that drawing has on the development of a child in early childhood. And how wonderful it is when a kid learns to draw at home next to his mother and together with his older brothers and sisters.

This article will become a guide for you in the world of drawing for the little ones. The article is based on the pedagogical research of Russian scientists - teachers (T.N. Doronova and S.G. Yakobson, T.S. Komarova, N.P. Sakulina, E.A. Yanushko and others), and the system of teaching kids developed by them drawing, as well as the practical experience of the author of the site "Native Path" in teaching kids from 1 to 3 years old.

From this article you will learn:

Section 1. Why teach your baby to draw: the main tasks of teaching drawing to young children from 1 to 3 years old, how drawing is useful for the development of the child.

Section 2. How to teach a child from 1 to 3 years old to draw:

• - the main stages of drawing with kids,
• – types of game drawing lessons with practical examples,
• How to get your child interested in drawing
• - how to evaluate and comment on the child's drawings,
• - how to plan drawing lessons with your baby more effectively.

Section 3. Basic Techniques drawing and materials for young children

Section 4. R we use with babies from 1 to 2 years old: this is a very important “doodle stage”.

Section 5. Draw with kids from 2 years to 3 years: the sequence and ideas of tasks, how to teach a child to hold a brush correctly, useful tips.

Section 6. Useful books about drawing with children 1-2 years old.

In this article, I also answered questions from readers of The Native Path and told how you can deal with typical mistakes or difficulties that always occur in the practice of communicating with young children and in the practice of teaching them.

Section 1. Why teach a baby to draw?

Before you do something, you must definitely ask yourself: why am I going to do this? Does my still so small little child need drawing? Maybe he will grow up and learn on his own. Is it safe to give a baby a pencil and paint? At what age can you give them to a baby? Let's look into the answers to these questions together.

1. 1. The main tasks of drawing with young children

Our main task in teaching drawing to the youngest children from children 1 to 3 years old is create conditions for the birth of drawing, support the child's desire to draw, create, explore. The most important thing in drawing is the joy and pleasure of the child from the process, and not “correct work on the top five according to the issued template”, which can be boasted to others.

It is very important for us to arouse the interest of the child in drawing, to create such conditions, so that the kid wants to depict on paper in drawing what emotionally captured him, what HE (and not an adult) is interested in! It is very important that the child “splash out” his experiences and impressions on paper in the way he likes, so that he wants to portray what worries him now.

Therefore, the approach to drawing kids is very different from the "school" approach to drawing for assessment in the classroom.

When we draw with the smallest, it is possible and necessary to combine drawing with other activities of the child that evoke an emotional response from him.- playing a musical instrument (for example, after drawing a rain, you can play a rain melody on a metallophone), singing, dancing to music, looking at a picture, a poem, a puppet theater.

So, drawing with kids is a joyful joint experience of an adult and a child, the joy of experimenting and learning about the world of color and form. And our main result of drawing with a baby is his interest in drawing, the desire to draw, the joy of his drawing (and not the achievement of perfectly even lines of the drawing, as is sometimes believed).

1. 2. How useful is drawing for the development of a child?

Drawing is not just pampering or a pleasant pastime for a kid and an adult. Drawing is the most real developmental activity for a child.

• Drawing is a sensory-motor exercise, the development of fine motor skills and sensory-motor coordination, i.e. natural, natural development of the child's brain in activities that are interesting to him.
• Drawing is also the development of a child's cognitive abilities, an effective and at the same time a very simple way to deepen and clarify his ideas about the world around him.
• In the process of drawing, the ability to feel color, rhythm, the beauty of a spot, a line develops, the child develops a sense of beauty.
• Drawing teaches to correlate speech with action in an exciting and easy form for the child, develops the focus of attention, which is often lacking in modern children. After all, a child in drawing needs to complete the image, i.e. bring the job to the end.
• Drawing develops the child's imagination.
• Drawing is closely connected with the development of children's speech, because in the process of visual activity we have a conversation with the child, name the color, shape, size, actions, encourage speech.

Section 2. How to teach a child to draw

2. 1 Basic steps of drawing with kids

Any kid from one to three years old goes through several stages during the development of drawing.

First stage. Introduction to visual materials- pencils, paints, crayons, ink and others.

At the first stage of drawing, we give the child the opportunity to experiment with paints or with a pencil, but at the same time we do not give tasks to depict something.

However, by looking at a random drawing of a child, we can make sense of what he came up with: "Oh, look, the smoke is coming!" (we speak, showing the child to scribbles in the form of circles and strokes). Or: “It’s raining for you drip-drip-drip-drip” (if the baby draws with a pencil from top to bottom)

Second phase. The kid imitates the adult in drawing

A kid at this age cannot yet set himself a task as an adult (an example of such a task for an adult: “I will draw a bunny”). Even if a child is 2 years old and sets himself such a task (“I want to draw snow”), he will quickly lose it and instead of snow in the picture, what will happen :).

Therefore, an adult thinks over and sets the game task and the task for drawing to the child, he shows what and how to draw, transfers to the child ways of acting with visual materials.

At this stage, most often the adult prepares the background in advance and comes up with a theme for drawing, and the kid finishes the fragments against this background.

EXAMPLE 1: In drawing on the topic “Salute”, an adult draws in advance during a child’s sleep (so that he does not see) a night city, and then offers him a ready-made background. After the holiday and observing the fireworks in the sky, the adult offers the child to depict a salute, and the child, with a poke with a brush, makes a “salute” in the sky - the same as he saw in the sky. Below is an exemplary scheme - an algorithm for such a pattern.

EXAMPLE 2: We teach the baby to color and create a game situation. An adult draws a car and a road on a white sheet of paper. He says that the road is white and needs to be cleared of snow. The kid paints the road in gray or brown (“clears the snow” so that a car can drive along the road).

It is at this stage that the adult shows the child how to use the brush and pencil.

The very first brush painting techniques are dipping and poke painting. It is important that we accompany each of our actions in drawing with a speech and that these actions and speech are rhythmic. For example, we stick a brush and say “drip” for each resulting drop of rain. Drip-drip-drip-drip - it turns out the rhythm of the rain and the rhythmic movements of the brush with a hand on a sheet of paper. The child imitates the adult.

Often at this stage, you can at first use the "hand in hand" technique, that is, take the baby's pen in your hand and draw first together. The adult guides the child's hand with his hand. Then gradually we release the child's handle, and he begins to act on his own.

Third stage. The kid can draw an image according to his own design or at the request of an adult or a toy

At this stage, we are teaching kids to draw circular lines, because. they are the most difficult for a small child. For example, he can already draw a bunny, a ball, a snowman. This stage comes closer to the age of three.

2. 1. The main types of game drawing lessons with kids from 1 to 3 years old

It is possible to conditionally distinguish several types of playing lessons in drawing with young children.

A) The first type of game drawing lessons

Familiarization of kids with visual materials and experimenting with them, with color, shape, line

Drawing kids does not begin with the image of a ball, a bird, a track, or some other object from his life. It begins with the child's experimentation with the material itself - paints or pencils - and knowledge of the properties and qualities of beauty.to .

Consider how best to introduce the baby to new objects for him - a pencil and paints, a brush.

We introduce the baby to paints as a new subject

Before depicting something, it is important for the baby to get acquainted with paints as an unusual new object - just move your finger with paint over a sheet of paper and find out that, it turns out, the paint leaves a mark on the paper! And these traces can be different - and dots (put the finger vertically), and stripes (we move the finger down the paper and get a “path”), and even squiggles of the most bizarre shapes!

Give your child the opportunity to mix different paints, try to apply them on smooth and rough paper and observe the differences.

Of course, such an acquaintance will not take place in a baby at once. He will need some time and the help of adults to examine the new subject from all sides.

If the child was not allowed to live this period, then such a situation arises. When an adult immediately puts a new object in the child’s hands and begins to explain drawing techniques and wants to teach the child something, the child does not listen to him, he is absorbed in the new object, reaches for the paint, wants to try it on the tooth, does not obey, is naughty. After all, his research needs were not satisfied. When the kid is already familiar with this subject, he begins to learn with pleasure, what turns out, with his help, that's what you can do! And he is ready to try to draw with you in new ways for him.

Introducing the baby to the pencil as a new subject

Before starting to draw with a pencil, the kid first gets acquainted with the pencil as an object - he can roll it, try to make a ladder out of pencils or put them vertically, specially drop it from the table and put it on the table again and drop it again, tear paper with a pencil, knock pencils like chopsticks against each other.

It is impossible to prohibit such survey actions to the baby. On the contrary, it is necessary to encourage them, to support the cognitive actions of the child. Usually this first "exploratory" stage the child passes from 1 year to 2 years. The sooner a pencil or paint falls into his hands, the sooner this stage will end.

We make an important conclusion to start our drawing lessons with the smallest:

Conclusion 1. The very first type of activity for all kids is acquaintance with visual materials.. This is explained by the fact that all children first observe the first stage - there is an interest in the material (pencils, paints, crayons), and only after its satisfaction develops an interest in drawing certain objects, the embodiment of life in line and color. If we have not introduced the kid to paint and a brush in advance and hope that he will immediately begin to draw the picture we have conceived, then most often nothing will work out. Instead of drawing, the child will explore new interesting objects for him. And this is normal and natural for his age.

Conclusion 2. Our very important task at this stage of drawing children- in the game, imperceptibly for the baby, help him see something similar to life in his randomly obtained images. For example, in the dots drawn by the kids to see in summer - rain, and in winter - snow, and maybe ... dandelions in the meadow (depending on the season and on the impressions of the child in life), in green ovals "recognize" and name the child cucumbers, and in balls in red circles, grass in green vertical strokes, and fireworks in multi-colored spots on a black background. And only after that the baby will begin to consciously depict on a sheet of paper what he sees in life.

b) The second type of game drawing lessons with kids.

Watching a child as an adult draws

You can draw with a child anything and any way and with any materials. And talk to him about what happens.

Examples of such displays:

A) Most often, we draw with the child such objects or plots in which he can participate, for example, we will draw a forest, and the kid, using the “sticking” technique with a brush, will draw traces of various animals after us in the snow in the forest. Or we will draw a clearing, the sky, a cloud. And the child will draw raindrops that come from the clouds to water the flowers on our lawn.

B) An adult can draw on the order of the child what he asks. It does not matter that you are not an artist and "can't draw". A child is not an “artistic council”, something completely different is important to him - the joy of creativity and communication! If the kid asks you to draw a tractor, then we draw a tractor, name its parts, their size, shape, color, why they are needed in this machine.

C) An adult can draw according to his own plan your favorite picture and comment and discuss drawing with your toddler.

Any observation of a child drawing an adult necessarily takes place in the communication between the adult and the child, with the adult commenting on everything he does. An adult tells the kid what and how he draws. Commenting is not invented in advance, this is a natural communication with the child as with an interlocutor, comes from life, from the interests of the child and mother.

For example: Look, now I will draw a bunny for you. What color will our bunny be - white or gray (the kid chooses). Well, you and I will have a white bunny - white as a snowball! I'll take white paint. Where is our white paint? Here it is, right (the kid gave a jar of the right color), I will dip my brush into the jar. Look carefully - I dip the brush not to the end, but to half. To take a little paint and so that it does not smear. What do you need to do next - do you remember? (The question is asked only if the child has drawing experience and can answer you. If there is no such experience, then the adult explains everything himself). Now I need to squeeze the brush on the edge of the jar. So that the excess paint of the glass in the jar - like this, drip-drip-drip-drip, paint flowed into the jar. Now everything is ready! Here is the bunny's head. The head is round like a ball. I stroke the head with a brush and paint over it: like this, like this, like this! (adult paints over the outline of the head). The head turned out white. Beautiful! What about bunny ears? Long, right. Here is one ear long - long (an adult draws a line and at the same time with the movement of the brush says “Long”), but the second ear is also long. And the bunny has a torso - long or round (look at the toy) - round like a ball. Now I will paint over the body. So - I stroke the bunny with a brush. Top down, top down! She stroked the bunny on the tummy. And he became white! Do you like the bunny's white belly? Here is the body. Hey bunny! And what kind of tail does the bunny have - long or short? No, short. What does it look like? The tail is like a small ball. Ay-yes bunny, bunny-jump-ka. Our bunny jumped through the forest - top-top-top. Do you want to jump? Take a brush and draw - top-top-top-top. rabbit runs. Good girl! etc.

If the child is not yet speaking, then this comment can be simplified and spoken in simpler short sentences. For example, you draw footprints on a track by dipping. Top-top-top-top, this nesting doll went for a walk along the path. Or jump-jump-jump-jump, here's a bunny jumping through the snow. Or drip-drip-drip-drip - it's raining from a cloud. “Vzhzhzhzhzhzhzh” (draw a long horizontal line from one edge of the sheet to the other) - this is a car passing by. You can draw large and small footprints and introduce the baby to these concepts: big footprints - this is a bear walking through the forest top-top-top-top (we speak slowly, in a low voice, each “top” is one dabbing with a brush). Small footprints - top-top-top-top - this is a mouse running (we speak in a high voice, one syllable is one “mouse step”).

As a rule, the first time the baby will not participate, but will simply observe. But if you want to draw another bunny (the "friend" of the previous bunny :)), then the baby may already express a desire to take part in the drawing. Usually kids, if they liked such an activity, then they ask an adult to draw again. Give your child this opportunity! And you can always draw a “friend” to a bunny, his brother, or just another bunny on a lawn in the forest.

No need to wait for the child to draw everything himself, he will simply join your drawing and draw a few details.

Even if the kid does not want to draw himself, but he watches and listens to you with pleasure - do not worry, everything is going as it should. While he "absorbs" new impressions, and do not rush him "immediately draw a hare." Let him look for now, the time when he himself will take the brush in his hands will simply come a little later.

IT'S IMPORTANT TO KNOW: Even the most concentrated baby will not be able to listen to you attentively for more than 3-5 minutes. And it can perform a chain of 2-3-4 actions, no more. Therefore, all our explanations and comments always include the active actions of the children themselves and are very short.

For example,“wash the paint brush and put it to dry” is a chain of 2 actions available to a baby at 2 years old. But the chain: “come up with an idea - embody it on a sheet of paper with paints - put the work to dry - wash the brush - dry the brush - put it back in place" - too difficult for a child even at 3-4 years old :).

The most important success factor in such drawing is your interest, your passion, your emotions and your joy! It is through the emotions of an adult that a child can be interested.

C) The third type of drawing lessons with kids.freehand drawing kids

Children draw what they want, how they want and as much as they want.

Our task is to provide them with a creative environment for this (for example, cover the table with oilcloth or lay a film on the floor), give them paints, pencils, crayons. And after drawing, together with the child and with his feasible help, put things in order and put everything back in place.

It should be noted that the "average" baby aged 1 to 3 years usually begins to get tired after 10-15 minutes of any activity in a sitting position, including drawing. Therefore, if you see signs of fatigue, then you can switch the baby to something else (go for a walk, read a book, play an outdoor game with toys based on his drawing).

D) The fourth type of drawing lessons with kids

Mastering drawing techniques with an adult through game situations

The kid draws something concrete together with the adult. An adult helps and directs, sets a game plot, shows the child drawing techniques, the correct grip of a brush and pencil with his fingers, etc.

If the first three types of playing lessons with a child at home in drawing can be carried out already in the second year of a baby’s life, then we begin to use the fourth type already after the age of 2 years in the third year of a child’s life.

The relationship of types of drawing classes with kids

These types of home drawing lessons easily transition from one to another and are given as a guide.. For example, if you showed drawing (the second type), and after that the child wanted to draw himself (the third type), then we give him materials and let him create!

Or another example: a child started to draw on his own, but asked for your help. Moreover, this request will be expressed in childish language: “UUU, bibi!” :), which means: “it didn’t work out, please help me draw a typewriter.” Of course, in this case there are options. We will either show how to draw a car and the kid will draw it himself. Or we will draw ourselves on our sheet of paper in front of the child and comment on what we are doing.

I have singled out four types here so that we do not forget that drawing can be different, and all types are necessary and important. Each type performs its task in the development of the child.

Any of these types of play activities take from 5 minutes in duration (if your child is mobile and restless, cannot be concentrated for a long time) to 10 minutes.

The maximum duration (this is the whole process, including not only drawing, but also a dialogue with the game character, handing him your drawing at the end of the work, a song or a game on the theme of the drawing) - 15 minutes. Of these, drawing does not take all the time, but alternates with other activities of the baby.

2. 3. How to interest a small child in drawing

Without interest in drawing, there will be no successful solution to the problem of teaching the visual skills of young children. After all, drawing is a more difficult type of visual activity for a child than modeling (You can read more about modeling with kids from 1 to 3 years old, basic techniques, rules, game plots in modeling in the article).

There are children who immediately begin to be interested in paints and brushes, crayons and draw with pleasure. And there are those kids who are just very afraid of colors! Or they don’t want to draw at all, it’s much more interesting for them to tear a sheet of paper with a brush.

But it is important to understand that any of the kids from 1 to 3 years old will not be happy to complete learning tasks in drawing (draw grass, rain, balls - balls, etc.), if he does not understand why he needs it? Therefore, any drawing lesson with a baby is always a game lesson.

An example of such a game plot: we want to draw carrots with the child. What could be the plot? Who might need these carrots? One option is that a bunny may need them. Therefore, our plot can unfold like this: a hare comes running to us from the forest. He is upset. He was walking through the woods and lost his basket in the woods. And it had carrots. Now he has nothing to bring home to the hares. Bunny asks the child to help him and draw carrots for his rabbits, because he needs them so much to feed his large family!

How to conduct such a game - drawing for a toy with a baby? The nuances are very important here!

Rule 1. How to correctly introduce a toy-character into a drawing lesson with a child.

WRONG: You take a toy and tell the child in your voice: “Look, Mashenka! Here is a bunny. He asks you to draw carrots for the rabbits. He lost carrots in the forest." Or you just say without a toy - "Let's help the hares and draw carrots for them." Most children will not accept the game and give it up in this case.

CORRECT: You take a toy, and the toy says for itself in a different (not your) voice: “Hello, Masha! I came to you from the forest. Do you also live in the forest? Not? And where? And this year we have trouble in the village - crop failure! There is no food at all! And we need so much food to feed ourselves and feed our rabbits. Could you draw carrots for us?

Rule 2. It is no use just telling a child a story without a toy. It is important for the child to see this particular hare, whom he will help, to hear how he talks to him, to make sure that he really needs help. - in this case, he needs carrots :). And then he will accept the learning task and will be happy to help the bunny by drawing. And in the end, he will give his carrots to the hare, and he will thank him and take them to the forest.

Rule 3. The resulting drawing result must be “used for its intended purpose” right there, so that the child is convinced that he did not try in vain. That is, we give carrots to the bunny, he thanks and is very happy, he can even sing or dance a song in gratitude to us. And the bunny quickly takes our drawings to the forest. This moment is the most important for the child, and it should never be missed.

You can come up with a lot of such plots for playing drawing lessons with a baby! Create, improvise, use plots from children's fairy tales, poems, songs, from our everyday life. I will give tips and an approximate list of possible plots below in the description of drawing by age of children.

2. 4. Is it necessary to evaluate children's drawings and comment on them to the child?

Of course, we will definitely give a positive assessment to any child's drawing.

There are three important points here.

First. If the child made a drawing on the instructions of the toy, then the toy itself evaluates the work. a(for example, a bunny “accepts” carrots drawn by him from the baby, thanks the child for them),

• WRONG: An adult says: “Masha, the bunny thanks you. He really liked your carrots.”
• CORRECT: An adult says in the voice of a bunny: “Masha, what is this in your basket? Surprise! Oh yes, those are carrots! Well, thank you! How I like them! This is a thick carrot, probably very juicy. And here is the thin one. It's probably crispy. Do you like eating carrots too? I'll take them to my bunnies. Well, I ran into the forest to treat the rabbits with carrots. Come visit us! We will be glad!

Second. If you need to correct something in the child’s drawing, then we also do it in a playful way. For example:

• WRONG: An adult says: “You have a good sun. And where are the rays. Forgot to draw again? I told you that you need to add more rays, but you forgot. After such an assessment, the child will no longer desire to draw.
• CORRECT: An adult or a fairy-tale hero says: “Ah yes, you got the sun! What round, yellow, warm. Well, I'll stretch out my hands to him - I'll bask in the sun. That's how warm! And you get warm. Oh, but what did the sun hide behind the clouds? Frightened us. Do not be afraid, the sun, us. Show us rays. Let's help the sun show us the rays - that's how we draw them! and finish the details that the baby forgot.

Third. Be sure to discuss with the baby his drawings. Such a discussion encourages the baby to develop visual skills, creates a trusting relationship between mother and baby.

If the drawing turned out to be successful, then, as a rule, there are no difficulties for adults. And every adult will always find what to answer the kid and what to tell him about his drawing. But if the picture is completely incomprehensible to you. How to be? But the child brought it to you, which means that he is waiting for your comments, waiting with joy and impatience. How to send the baby? It's just, "Yes, yes. put the drawing here”, will the child obviously not be satisfied or even offended? Let's analyze specific cases from life.

Example 1 Your 2-year-old baby brought you something incomprehensible in the drawing in the form of a circle, and says that this is a mother or grandmother(and this is how many children draw adults). Don't be silent and don't be surprised. And then tell him: “What an interesting mother you have turned out to be! Where is my hair? And the eyes? Pens? Legs? Let the kid finish the image with those details that he already knows well and which are available to him for the image.

Example 2 Let's assume that your kid has drawn the same circle and has brought you this drawing. But at the same time, he obviously does not know what it is and what he depicted. In this case, you can and should start playing riddles with him and immediately ask him: “Did you draw a bun or a plate? Or maybe it's a bunny? Or the moon? I can't guess! It must be a round clock, yes or no?” All kids love this game! Even if they were not going to think of something to you, they immediately take on the role of a guesser and talk with you with pleasure. And so guess until your baby agrees that you "guessed" what he depicted.

With the help of such dialogues, we teach young children to find similarities in lines, spots, shapes in a drawing with the objects of our life, develop their imagination. And we push the development of drawing to new, more complex stages, we create trusting relationships in the family.

Be sure to praise the child's drawing, even if it seems to you that it "turned out worse than it could have been" or "worse than the neighbor's child." Praise is very important at this age. Joy and pride in achievements are important for a child, he tries very hard and drawing is still difficult for him. We draw with children not for the sake of exhibitions and exemplary results (in which it is often impossible to understand whether the child was drawing or the adult did everything for him?), but for the sake of the development of the child himself. Therefore, tell your child about his drawing and find in it what you like - bright colors, a cheerful clown, eyes or snow or any other fragment of the drawing turned out beautifully.

2. 5. How to plan home drawing lessons with a toddler

From the age of a child from 2 years old, we can already plan our home drawing games. In order to use time as efficiently as possible, you need to know the basic rules for planning education for young children.

The first rule of planning homework with a child is drawing. At first, when the child is just learning to properly hold a pencil and brush in his hands and draw with them, the frequency and sequence of playing lessons with the child in drawing are very important.

For a small child from 1 to 3 years old, it is very important to follow the principle of planning education, based on knowledge of the age characteristics of babies. Studies (G. M. Lyamina) have shown that if we teach kids something new, then it is better to plan our classes like this: spend them two days in a row, and then repeat the material after 2-3 days. Let's take a look at this sequence as an example.

For example, we want to teach a child to draw vertical lines and reinforce his ability to hold a brush correctly.

How to properly plan game activities with a young child in drawing:

That's right, easy for the child and more effective it can be done this way. We are planning three small play activities during which we will draw different subjects with the baby, but in all of them vertical lines will be the main ones.

For example:

• On Monday, April 7, we will draw rain.
• On Tuesday, April 8, we will draw green grass or ribbons for dolls with the child (these are also vertical lines).
• Then you can take a break for a few days if you don't want to draw or have other plans.
• On Friday or Saturday (April 11 or 12) we will again draw vertical lines with the baby to consolidate the skill. But this time we need a different game plot. For example, it will be a fence for a cockerel - the kid will draw a fence to hide a toy from a fox.

The planning cycle for learning a new skill (in this case, drawing vertical lines) is complete. Further, we can already repeat this material on any day and with any breaks. For example, we will consolidate this skill again in a few days on April 17 and draw a new plot with the same vertical lines - for example, a railway. You will draw two horizontal lines on a piece of paper in advance. And the kid will draw vertical. On this train, along these rails and sleepers, a familiar and beloved fairy-tale toy hero - Cockerel, Bear or Bunny - will come to visit you.

Only after the baby has already learned to control his hand during such a short period of time, holds the brush correctly, has learned the rules for using it, can you plan a “drawing day” for yourself once a week, and this will be right.

Typical mistakes in planning:

EXAMPLE OF TYPICAL MISTAKE #1. NOT VERY EFFECTIVE and therefore WRONG.

• We planned that every Monday morning we draw with the child.
• On April 7, they drew rain and taught how to hold the brush correctly.
• A week passed, and on April 14 we began to draw grass, and the kid had already forgotten everything. And we teach him again how to hold the brush and draw it vertically across the sheet of paper.
• Another week passed, and we began to draw a fence on April 21. And we start over again.

This way of learning to draw is too complicated, because. does not take into account the nature of a small child and the fact that babies of 1 and 2 years old do not develop new skills so quickly and not so easily, unlike older children - preschoolers. It is not necessary to do so.

EXAMPLE of a common mistake #2: also not effective and therefore wrong

On Monday we teach the child to draw vertical lines, on Tuesday - circular lines, and on Wednesday - horizontal lines. The kid is confused, because. each action requires a special movement of the brush on a sheet of paper, and so far it is difficult for him. It is difficult for a small child to switch.

So, let's summarize the first rule. To make drawing with a baby simple, easy and enjoyable for both a child and an adult, you need to consider the rule for planning our game activities. When we want to teach a child a new skill, we need to repeat this material with the child several times in one week, but in different game plots. If the kid is already free to draw and masters the basic movements and skills, then we can plan only one permanent “drawing day” during the week to practice this type of activity with the child.

RULE 2: You can not reduce all the drawing of a child only to playing activities with an adult. Equally important, and perhaps more important, is the free drawing of the baby according to his plan. He needs to devote no less time than "teaching" drawing with an adult!

Therefore, plan the time when you just give the baby paints and the opportunity to do with them what he wants! If the kid does not know what to draw for him, then in this case, tell me the idea and help. If the child creates himself, then interfering with his free creativity and even more so introducing your own patterns into it (“How did you draw the Christmas tree? Wrong? How did I teach you?” :)) is extremely undesirable. After all, who said that our way of drawing is the only true and best for any person? The child has every right to invent his own way of drawing!

In kindergartens and children's centers, the creation of a developing environment for the development of a child's drawing is usually planned as follows: 2 teaching game lessons in drawing, then the third - drawing according to the plan of the kids. And again 2 training sessions and after them - the third drawing according to the child's plan or his experimentation with paints. Plus, every day children have free access to paints and pencils to draw according to plan.

Section 3. Basic materials and drawing techniques for the little ones

3. 1. Materials for drawing with kids 1 - 2 years old

For drawing with toddlers, you can use different materials:

• brushes and paints (gouache, watercolor, icing for decorating cookies with food coloring or natural coloring from berries),
• bright soft colored pencils,
• crayons (wax and regular),
• felt-tip pens (and felt-tip pens for paper, and for felt-tip pens for fabric),
• Finger paint,
• pieces of sponge (you can cut them in different sizes and shapes),
• pieces of cotton wool (cotton balls, cotton swabs) as stamps - seals for a pattern of round shapes,
• brushes (“we poke the brush with a poke” and get an interesting texture that looks like a dandelion or fluff or animal fur),
• stamps for children - seals (ready-made sets of seals for children with stamp inks),
• In recent years, gel pens, watercolor pencils, colored ballpoint pens, and colored ink have also been used in drawing with kids.

You will also need:

• color mixing palette,
• Place for drawing. First of all, this is an oilcloth to cover the table with and not to worry about the safety of your furniture while the baby is drawing (if the furniture does not allow washing it). If you are worried about the cleanliness of the floor, then you do not need to prohibit drawing and modeling. Just select a place for drawing where there is no carpet or sofa nearby or other items that require a delicate attitude towards yourself, and cover the floor and table with foil. The main thing is that both you and the baby are joyful and calm while drawing and that your creativity is not overshadowed by annoying interference in the form of spots on a light sofa.
• Children's waterproof apron and sleeves (if the child has long-sleeved clothes) so as not to stain the child's clothes during his "colorful experiments",
• A jar for water (the most convenient jar is a non-spill jar, which is sold in office supply stores). You can use any stable wide dishes. You should not give narrow dishes, because. the child will splash water out of it.
• Wet and dry napkin for wiping the child's hands in the process of drawing and experimenting with paints. It should always lie at hand right on the table.

On what you can draw with a child 1-2 years old:

You can draw with kids on:

• regular drawing paper
• on fabric
• on cardboard
• on plywood
• on a wooden board.
• You can also take a large sheet of drawing paper (or semi-drawing paper) and do collective work on it with several kids. Moreover, in collective work, one kid can make prints with a sponge, another can draw with a pencil, and a third with paint. Such a picture is the simplest - the sun, grass, flowers, rain, etc. An adult draws a picture of children to make it more interesting and recognizable for them. For example, you can add heroes to the background - a bunny, a hedgehog and others.

3. 2. Basic drawing techniques for the little ones

With young children, you can use quite a variety of drawing methods. For example:

• poke drawing,
• dipping drawing,
• stamp drawing
• drawing lines (vertical and horizontal),
• circle line drawing,
• finger painting - finger prints on paper

It is very important: It is advisable when learning a new skill or a new drawing technique to adhere to the planning given above.. Then the child will learn to transfer the skill to new conditions, learn to draw on his own, come up with his own stories based on the skills already mastered, we will be able to consolidate new skills. Otherwise, if you constantly "jump" - switch from one technique to another technique (today we drew with a poke, tomorrow - by sticking, next week we will draw circles, and then a week later - lines, and we will draw everything only once), then not a single skill the child will not master it firmly and will not learn to draw on his own. He will be dependent on the adult and his ideas. And we need the kid to learn to express his own impressions in drawings, and for this it is necessary that he freely learns to freely enough for his age to use a brush and a pencil.

Let's describe the basic drawing techniques that are available even to the youngest children.

3. 3. How to draw poke with toddlers

To paint with a poke, you will need a semi-dry stiff brush made of bristles and paint.

When drawing with a poke, the brush is held vertically. The shorter the pile on the bristle brush, the more expressive the texture of the print on paper will be. Therefore, if you have a long brush, then cut the pile on it in advance. The brush should be large enough to make the "poke" large.

We take thick paint for such drawing, usually it is gouache paint. The brush must not be wet.

The basis - the background for the drawing is prepared by an adult, and the child fills it with "pokes" - brush prints. It could be different stories.

Examples of plots for drawing with a poke:

• Yellow or white prints on a green background - dandelions in a meadow,
• White prints in the blue sky are fluffy clouds
• The blue prints of the brush are raindrops coming from the cloud.
• Yellow, orange, red prints drawn by a child on a background of autumn trees prepared by you in advance are autumn foliage,
• If a child draws white prints on a winter background all over a sheet of paper, they will get fluffy snowflakes.
• Against the backdrop of the city and the black sky using the poke technique, a multi-colored salute in the sky looks very beautiful
• On a blue background with dark brown tree trunks (the background is prepared in advance by an adult), white caps of snow painted on trees using the poke technique look great.

You can draw with a poke not only with a hard brush, but also with a stick, on which a piece of foam rubber is attached with a strong thread.

Poke drawing is available even to the smallest children from one and a half years old.

3. 4. How to draw by dipping with toddlers from 1 to 3 years old

priming- This is a method of drawing with a brush, with which you can get a rather interesting image without artistic skills. You will need paint - gouache. as well as the "Squirrel" brush for painting. The brush should be soft and leave a fairly large imprint.

We collect paint on the brush and stick the pile of the brush to a sheet of paper. It makes an imprint.

With the help of such prints, you can get different images:

• traces of small animals on a white background of snow in the forest,
• the lights are burning in the house (we stick it - we draw “windows” on the contour of the house, prepared in advance by adults),
• the lights lit up on the Christmas tree (the green contour of the Christmas tree is prepared in advance by an adult),
• leaves on a tree branch (an adult draws a branch, a child only leaves),
• bugs in the grass
• patterns and ornaments (we decorate a postcard, the outline of a plate, cups, etc.)

3.5. Drawing with stamps and fingerprints with children 1 and 2 years old

As a stamp that leaves an imprint on paper, there can be a foam rubber sponge, a cotton swab or the finger of the child himself. Stamps of various shapes can also be cut from vegetables, such as potatoes or carrots. Lovely little stamps can be made from a regular dishwashing sponge. With such stamps, you can, for example, draw multi-colored Christmas tree decorations on the silhouette of a Christmas tree.

For this technique, you will need several saucers and several seals (each color is in its own saucer, into which its own signet or sponge is dipped).

What can be drawn with stamps:

• multi-colored cubes (we make prints on paper with cubes from the designer - builder),
• rowan berries on a branch,
• beads,
• Christmas tree lights,
• stars in the sky
• caterpillar
• apples on an apple tree,
• pattern on the contour of the subject, postcard
• snowman.

In order for the kid to like drawing, it is very important that an adult prepares a colored background for his creativity in advance.

We have now examined the simplest ways of drawing, which are available even to children of the second year of life.

Drawing vertical, horizontal lines, drawing circles and ovals it is much more difficult for a child, it requires good coordination of movements and our help in mastering them. So I will talk about drawing these lines with toddlers in great detail just below in the next section.

Section 4. Drawing with kids by age stages:

from 1 year to 2 years

The age from 1 to 2 years is usually called the "age of astrakhan". How does it pass and how does “drawing” develop in the smallest child? Why are these scribbles valuable and why do children of all countries and peoples draw them at this age?

4. 1. How a one-year-old child masters a pencil,

or let's draw doodles!

In the second year of life, the baby begins to hold a spoon, stick and pencil in his hands and drive them along the paper. He discovers that the pencil leaves a mark on the paper! This is a real discovery for a child! Of course. that the child does not yet know that it is possible to draw with a pencil. He simply clamps a pencil in his fist and moves it in different directions, sometimes making holes in the paper from his joyful efforts. Very often, little children act differently with a pencil for the first time - when they find that the pencil makes a mark on paper, they begin to hit it with all their might on the sheet - with the movement of the entire handle from the elbow or even from the shoulder. They like both the pencil mark and the sound of the pencil hitting the paper.

Then the child begins to study the traces of the pencil on paper and try to make them different. At first it turns out a chaos of lines, a random drawing, almost always the paper is torn. There is no need to scold for this - the child masters the space of a sheet of paper, learns the world.

Gradually, the child begins to draw a pencil over the paper himself so that some of his movements become rhythmic and repeatable. Quite homogeneous lines are obtained on his “drawing”.

Helpful tips from experience: When drawing, a baby aged 1 to 2 years goes beyond the bounds of the sheet and still cannot draw only on the sheet. Therefore, be sure to give the child a drawing space much larger than a sheet of paper (put oilcloth or other materials to protect furniture).

Gradually, if the child has access to pencils, then when examining them, he begins to make more ordered movements on paper - back and forth, rotational lines all over the sheet, spirals, circular skeins and lines. They are usually rhythmic, and this gives the child joy and soothes him. This is a kind of rhythm of life and their actions for the baby, which is very favorable for him. After all, all nature is a rhythm (the rhythm of the change of seasons and parts of the day, the ebbs and flows, the rhythms of the moon, etc.)

By about 2 years old, the baby can scratch several sheets of paper in a row with such rhythmic movements with a pencil, without looking up from this process. He is very interested in traces on paper! Such “drawing” of a one-year-old child is not yet a visual activity, but it is a serious preparation for it! Indeed, in such "doodles" coordinated rhythmic hand movements and visual control develop!

4. 2. At what age can you start giving a small child a scribble pencil?

Usually in kindergartens and children's centers, pencils for "scribble drawing" begin to be issued to children at about the age of one and a half years and older. Homes can be given earlier. But be sure children draw under the supervision of an adult, because. a pencil is an object with a sharp end. And from the age of 2 and later, it will be possible to start learning to actually draw as a visual activity.

If a child at this age was not given pencils and paints for free use at home or in the studio, then usually the baby’s drawing occurs much later - from about 2.5 - 3 years.

4. 3. How to help the development of "doodle drawing"?

Such “drawing” of doodles does not require our attention, but only requires that we provide the baby with a lot of paper, bright multi-colored pencils and do not scold, but encourage his interest in independent research!

But if we help the baby, then the child will already learn very important new skills for him in scribble drawing experiments. which will be useful to him a little later in drawing.

Example 1 You can tell the child to hold a sheet of paper with the other hand when drawing a doodle and show how this is done.

Example 2 It is possible closer to 2 years to show how to hold a pencil in a pen.

Example 3 At any age, having examined the drawing of a child, you can find in it what it looks like a real phenomenon or object - “Oh, what a rain you got - drip-drip - drip-drip !!!" (on vertical strokes). Such our gentle help will push the child to a new stage of learning about the possibilities of a pencil.

4. 4. What to give a one and a half year old child - a pencil or a felt-tip pen?

In addition to pencils, you can give the child and felt-tip pens. But I would not recommend limiting yourself to felt-tip pens, although it is certain that children love them more. And that's why. Drawing with felt-tip pens is very easy, and the trace is very bright. A pencil requires pressure when drawing - that is, the effort of a small pen. Therefore, pencil scribbles are much more useful for the development of a child's hand (fine motor skills) than felt-tip pens. So combine both!

It's important to know:

Section 5. Drawing with kids by age stages: drawing with children from 2 years to 3 years

In the third year of life we teach the kid not just to drive a pencil or brush over a sheet of paper, but also to draw a certain object - a path or a ball, to recognize and name what an adult has drawn.

What the kid draws should be very good and familiar to him from his personal experience - something that he can touch, feel, examine, with which he can act on his own. It is important that the child is familiar and familiar with the details of the object, their shape and size. After all, we convey them in the image on paper.

5. 1. What can a 2-year-old kid learn about drawing?

Toddlers at this age can already begin to learn:

• understand that well-known objects and phenomena can be depicted on paper with spots, lines, outlines,
• correctly hold a pencil and a felt-tip pen, a brush with three fingers (from 2 years old),
• draw vertical lines, horizontal lines, intersecting lines, rhythmic strokes and spots, rings, rounded lines (prepare the child’s hand to depict round shapes),
• use visual materials correctly: 1) first wet the brush in the paint - pick up the paint, 2) remove the excess paint on the edge of the jar, 3) after drawing, rinse the brush in the jar and dry. 4) And only then put it in its place when it becomes dry.

A kid can watch how an adult draws and imitate the same simple drawing (draw cucumbers in a jar - “grandmother's pickles”, an apple for a hedgehog or a ball as a gift for a kitten).

At this age, kids are already beginning to determine "beautiful - ugly." Use these words in your speech: “This is what a beautiful bouquet you and I got. Bright, elegant, festive! When looking at pictures in books, you also find beautiful details - a beautiful elegant dress for a doll or Petrushka's cap, tell your baby why you think this picture is beautiful, what you admire in it: “Look, what a beautiful cat! He put on red boots, took a book and went to visit. Cheerful, smiling!

It's important to know: under the age of 2 years, the child is not yet able to depict something according to the plan. That is, the baby still cannot set a goal for himself - to draw the sun - and fulfill this goal. He is still in the process, the result and the goal are not important for him at all! Therefore, do not be surprised if the baby simply tweets what he just painted hard.

There is no need to “analyze” and “dismember” beauty into parts with a child of this age. Emotional admiration, holistic perception is very important. V. A. Sukhomlinsky wrote very accurately about this:

“Beauty by itself affects the soul and does not require explanation. We admire the rose flower as if it were a single whole, and beauty would be destroyed if we plucked the petals from the flower and analyzed what the essence of beauty is.”

5. 2. The sequence of game lessons with children 2 years old for learning to draw

If your baby got a pencil and a brush in his hands early enough, then by the age of 2 he has already passed the stage of scribble and is ready to draw, to display the world in a drawing.

In drawing, it is very important for a child of two to two and a half years to feel the tactile and motor sensations from materials and actions with them (sensory development of the baby), visual perception of color and shape, the joy of knowing the properties and qualities of materials and the shape of objects in the world! It is important for him to feel with his fingers the ball, line, angle, long and short, thick and thin, rough and smooth, bright and pale.

There is a certain sequence of complication of tasks for a child from simple to complex. Let's consider it step by step.

Stage 1. We teach a kid 2-3 years old to draw

vertical lines with brush and pencil

Drawing vertical lines with a pencil and brush is the best way to start teaching a child how to use a pencil and a brush. I remind you that we begin to do this at the age of about 2 years.

IT IS IMPORTANT TO KNOW AND CONSIDER: Vertical lines are the easiest type of image for a baby. This is due to the fact that a child's hand with a brush or pencil can easily fall down without much visual control. Horizontal and circular lines are much more difficult for a child. That is why we start with vertical lines.

What topics and plots for drawing vertical lines with a pencil and brush can we offer a child:

• We draw a fence for the cockerel (we will hide the cockerel from the fox),
• We draw how green grass grows on a meadow with movements from top to bottom,
• The rain drips from the cloud onto the meadow and onto the flowers: drip-drip-drip-drip,
• We draw a railroad for a train on which a bunny will come to visit us, you can draw with a group of children and combine all the drawings into a long common railroad around the room or around the hall,
• Drops are falling - the icicle has melted in the spring: drip-drip-drip.
• Draw strings for balloons
• Fall fall, fall leaves on the ground - Op! Fell! Op! Fell! (draw the trajectory of the leaf falling down with a vertical line)
• We draw spines on a hedgehog.
• The rabbit's cleaning brush broke. Let's help fix it :)

At the same time, at the first stage, we teach the baby to properly hold the brush and use paints.

How to hold a brush correctly:

• We hold the tassel right behind the metal tip (we explain to the child that this is such a beautiful shiny skirt at the Sorceress of the Tassel, and we do not touch it).
• The brush is grasped with three fingers. It is located between the thumb and middle finger, and is additionally held on top by the index finger.
• When drawing lines, the hand does not lie on the drawing, but is on weight (otherwise, with our hand we can smear the paint on paper and ruin both the drawing and clothes).

Stage 2. Learning to draw horizontal lines

pencil and brush

Horizontal movements with a brush can be offered to a child of 2-3 years old in such subjects:

• glomerulus thread,
• paths and paths,
• the car is driving on the road
• ribbons,
• horizontal stairs in the garden
• spring streams run
• a lot of colored pencils are in the box
• planks and logs of a bridge across the river.
• airfield with runways - horizontal lines.
• a multi-colored rug for a cat (an adult cuts out the image of a cat in advance and sticks it on a striped rug that the baby turned out).
• handkerchief (the child paints with horizontal lines a sheet of paper or a piece of fabric stretched over a frame).
• brush (the bristles of the brush are drawn with lines, but already in the horizontal direction)

Stage 3. Draw with kids 2-3 years old

circles and ovals

Circular hand movements are the most difficult type of lines and hand movements for a child. Usually, kids are able to master circular movements from the age of 2.5, and before this age we do not offer them such tasks.

Ideas for playing lessons on learning to draw circles and ovals:

• balls for kittens (“wind threads on a ball”),
• draw the sun and rays to it,
• flowers (an adult draws stems, and a child draws flowers on them),
• there is smoke from the chimney in the village,
• delicious sushki or bagels for grandmother or other character,
• “Stir the porridge” (Magpie - crow),
• snowball,
• snowman,
• balls,
• watch,
• wheels for cars, for toy carts,
• tumbler,
• chick,
• beetles in the grass.

IT IS IMPORTANT: When a child paints over a round shape, you can remind him how to do it correctly. We seem to be "winding a thread on a ball." This is necessary so that the baby learns to paint over the image with movements according to the shape of the object - circular.

THIS IS INTERESTING TO KNOW: In the third year of life, even children who have not been taught how to depict specific objects at all can draw them perfectly themselves! But on one condition - if they have all the visual materials in constant access and they often draw the way they want. But this is observed in children 2-3 years old only in relation to those phenomena or objects that struck them strongly. Such objects seem to "stand before the eyes" of the child, so it is easier for him to depict them.

This explains the fact that young children often draw the most ordinary and easy-to-draw objects much worse than very complex objects, but emotionally significant ones for them. Moreover, each child has “his own interest” in this regard: someone was captured by the observation of an excavator on the street or a scuba diver, and the other kid was impressed by a thunderstorm or a scary big dog in the yard. It is not necessary to forbid the child to draw objects that are terrible for him, on the contrary, let him draw as many of them as he needs. Later, this event would no longer excite him so much and this topic would leave his drawings.

5. 3. How to start learning to draw after 2 years - from drawing with pencils or from drawing with paints?

There is no consensus on the answers to this question.

1. Paint is easier for a child to draw, since strong hand pressure is not needed and at the same time bright spots appear, which are always interesting to the child.
2. Having learned to hold the brush correctly and draw without excessive pressure, the child easily transfers these skills to drawing with a pencil. He will not tear paper with it and press it too hard or hold it incorrectly. The child will immediately begin to draw them correctly.
3. If the kid is used to drawing with a pencil with strong hand pressure, then he will also begin to paint with a brush.
4. Drawing with pencils tires the child. Since in order to get a bright line, he needs to press hard on it, and the child’s pen gets tired of this. Drawing with paints does not require this. And the child paints with enthusiasm for 10 and 15 minutes.

T.S. Komarova and N.P. Sakulina hold a different opinion. They believe that it is better to start with pencil drawing and first conduct 3-4 pencil drawing games with the baby. And after that, move on to drawing with a brush and paints.

5. 4. How to teach a child 2-3 years old to hold a brush and pencil correctly when drawing

The brush and pencil should be held with three fingers, not squeezing too hard. In this case, the brush or pencil is held between the thumb and middle fingers, and the index finger is on top.

Grab the pencil not too close to its lead (the distance from the lead to the fingers is about 2 cm).

The brush is held with fingers just above the iron tip.

The brush is driven over a sheet of paper easily, freely, rhythmically. This is learned by the baby in the third year of life.

Of course, you do not need to explain this to the child verbally - you just need to show how to hold and help if something does not work out for him.

Any child does not immediately master this correct grip of a pencil and brush. Let's see how we can help him.

What if the child puts the middle finger up the brush or pencil?

Answer: With the help of the "hand in hand" technique (take - grab the child's hand in your hand) and gently remove his finger to the side.

What should you do if your child won't let you take his hand in yours? And he holds the brush only in his fist, refusing to hold it otherwise?

Answer: Try to gently hug the child's brush with a brush and draw interesting patterns with bright colors with his hand.

What to do if a child of 2-3 years old cannot learn how to properly hold a brush in his hand?

Answer: Well helps to develop the ability to properly hold a pencil or brush for drawing technique "Drawing with a poke". From the name of this method it is already clear that with such a drawing, the movements of the hand are vertical from top to bottom. And the print is obtained instantly with one quick action of the hand.

Make a stick for the baby - “poke”. To do this, wrap a piece of thin foam rubber on a regular stick (you can use an unsharpened pencil, flat on both sides). Secure with a strong synthetic thread, winding it several times around the poke and securing with knots.

Show how to hold the stick - poke correctly (with three fingers wrapped around the stick). The kid dips the stick in the paint and, placing it vertically on a sheet of paper, receives prints. So you can draw dandelions, beads, fireworks, a clearing with flowers and much more.

Explain to the baby that in order for the print to turn out beautiful, you need to hold the poke on the paper a little, and not immediately tear it off it, press it a little. Then you get even round "balls".

When the baby learns to draw easily with a stick - “poke”, give him cotton swabs. Let them draw flowers, berries, patterns.

So gradually the baby will learn the correct grip and, after the correct grip of the cotton swab with his fingers, he will move on to the correct grip of the pencil and brush.

5.5. How to teach a child 2 years old to use paints correctly

Very often, young children forget the rules for using paints. For example, they forget to pick it up from a jar and rub the paper with a brush without paint, surprised that there are no traces left. Or they forget to remove excess paint from the bristle of the brush or they pick up too much of it and as a result they get blots on the sheet. Therefore, an adult constantly helps the baby and reminds what to do next:

• first you need to moisten the brush in a jar of water,
• then dip the entire brush gently into a can of paint,
• after that, squeeze the pile of the brush on the edge of the can of paint,
• And now you can start drawing!

5. 5. What kind of brushes and pencils to give children 2 years old for drawing?

The first brush of the baby should be short, but with a thick handle. And also it should be a brush with which thick, clear lines are drawn. And only when the child masters drawing with such a brush, he can be given a thinner brush.

Large size brushes (No. 10-14) are best suited for drawing kids. They can be natural (eg pony, squirrel) or soft synthetic.

To paint a large surface (sky background, grass background), wide flat brushes or sponges are used.

With a poke, you can paint with hard bristle brushes. You already know how to make a poke stick.

A child's first pencil can be triangular, but it doesn't have to be. The main thing is that it should be large enough.

drawing with children 2 years old

Tip 1. If you are going to give a drawing of a child, then be sure to talk to him about it and take permission for this: “Do you want us to give your drawing to your grandmother?” and respect the opinion of the child. If he does not want to give this drawing, then it is better to draw another one as a gift. And so the drawing loved by the baby should be kept at home.

Tip 2. If you want to show something to the child again in the process of drawing, then show - demonstrate this element or method of drawing on your piece of paper, and not on the child's sheet. Then the child's work will be on the children's list without your intervention. Yes, not as beautiful as your sample. But the child is learning! And he cannot immediately learn to do everything “on five”, and this is not necessary.

Tip 3. It is very important that there are no distracting objects near the baby during the learning game lessons in drawing. For example, if you need only 4 paints for drawing, we only prepare them and put them on the table, we remove other paints so that the child does not see them and cannot reach them. If we need only one paint, then we take out exactly this color of paint, we do not put the rest on the table.

The abundance of objects only distracts a small child from his task.

A convenient option for smart kids - if you don’t need something anymore, then after use we put this item (for example, a sponge) in an opaque closed plastic container so that the child is no longer distracted by it.

After all, everyone who has ever painted with a small child knows how unstable his attention is - he saw a foreign object, got distracted and ... forgot about drawing!

Tip 4. Do not rush to teach a child from the age of 2 a deliberate image and “stamps - samples” in it - “this is how you need to draw a bunny, and this is how a horse! Do like me. This is right, but as you drew, this is wrong. This age has another more important task! And why did we suddenly decide that we have the only correct way of depicting? A child can invent his own way, and that's great!

Tip 5. Do not strive for the lines drawn by your baby to be the same and absolutely even. We're drawing, not drawing :). Look around at the natural world - there are no identical lines in it. On the contrary, the line is alive in nature and in drawing. it conveys the mood of the artist, his way of perceiving the world. The line in the drawing can be calm or tense, cheerful or frightened, sad or bold. Play with these moments and the different nature of the lines and shapes that the child has obtained. For example, tell your child: “What a bold balloon you have! So it is eager to fly into the sky, barely holding its thread. But this ball is timid, afraid to fly into the sky. What about the third ball?

5.7. Unusual drawing techniques for 2 year olds: ink drawing on fabric

Now there are a lot of interesting drawing techniques. Therefore, it is absolutely not necessary to be limited only to paints and pencils. I'll tell you about one of the unusual drawing techniques with kids 2-3 years old, because. I love working with fabric.

With the help of fabric paints (an expensive option) or ordinary colored ink (an economical and affordable option for everyone), you can make your own individual doll textiles with a 2-year-old child or real fabric gifts for a child’s toys - for a bear, bunny, dollhouse guests. Or you can make something simple for your home - even oven mitts or house towels are real. With us, everything in such creativity will be truly like that of designers. And this is exactly what kids love!

You will need for drawing with the baby:

1. colored ink or paint for drawing on fabric, drying under an iron (instructions are given on the paint package),
2. old fabric of the shape and size you need (of course, you can use new fabric too!),
3. cotton buds or round foam rubber dies. You can make your own stamps by cutting out circles of different sizes from foam rubber and attaching them to the sticks with a strong thread.

Drawing technique: poke

Pattern options:

• a) fill the entire surface of the fabric with multi-colored circles (you get a “polka dot fabric”),
• b) put several dots of the same color in the center of the napkin. And after that, take the paint of a different color and put one more dot in each corner of the handkerchief or napkin,
• c) draw a row of dots on each side of the napkin or towel or doll bedspread.
• You can come up with your own patterns!

How to draw with ink with a baby 2-3 years old:

- Step 1. Mandatory step! We put an additional oilcloth on the table. And on oilcloth - ironed clean fabric of the right size.

For example, if we are going to draw a doll's tablecloth, then you need to take a fabric slightly larger than the size of the doll's table available in your doll's apartment. You can draw an apron for a doll. Or a handkerchief for a bear. A bow for a bunny or a mini bag for a doll.

— Step 2. We draw a poke pattern of circles over the entire surface of the fabric. To do this, we dip our stamps or cotton swabs in colored ink (each color has its own wand) and apply vertically to the fabric with a poke. We fill the entire surface of the fabric. This is the first option, the easiest and most beloved by children - the option of obtaining fabric with multi-colored polka dots. We try to ensure that the entire surface of the fabric is covered with colored polka dots.

Next time you can offer your child a more complex pattern.

— Step 3. We are waiting for the pattern to dry completely (at this time there may be an afternoon nap, a walk, or other interesting or everyday events).

— Step 4. Iron your piece with a hot iron. If you need to hem the edges - then hem. All is ready! The resulting doll thing (or maybe it's a real oven mitt for your kitchen!) can even be washed by hand, it will not shed.

— Step 5 The most important step for a child, and therefore it should not be skipped. We give our product to the person for whom it was intended. So, if we made a tablecloth for dolls for a housewarming party, then we are playing a housewarming party, meeting guests and treating them. If we made a handkerchief for Mishutka, then we take the handkerchief to him. He thanks us. If we made an apron for a doll, then we solemnly hand her our gift. The doll tries on an apron and thanks the child and immediately prepares something tasty for us and hands it to us.

Another one the technique of drawing with children 2 years old with ink is the technique of blotography.

• Take a landscape sheet and fold it in half.
• Drop a spot of paint into the middle of the fold, then fold the sheet in half and run your palm several times in different directions from the center of the fold.
• Open the sheet.
• What did you get? What does it look like? How can you paint this spot?

Section 6. Useful drawing books with toddlers from 1 to 3 years old

I have selected in this section those books that will be understandable to any family and for which it will be easy to draw with a child.

1. Yanushko E.A. Drawing with young children. 1-3 years. Book+CD.
In the book you will find ideas and scenarios for playing lessons with young children in drawing in sections:

• Drawing with crayons
• Drawing with felt-tip pens and pencils
• Introduction to pencils and markers
• Drawing straight lines
• Drawing wavy lines
• Drawing broken lines
• Point drawing
• Drawing circles
• Spiral drawing
• Curly line drawing
• Drawing different lines
• Self-drawing with pencils and
• felt-tip pens
• Drawing with paints
• Introduction to paints
• sponge painting
• Finger painting
• Hand drawing
• Drawing with rollers
• Drawing with stamps
• Drawing in the technique of priming
• Drawing in the technique of strokes
• Drawing on top of a sketch

This book is very convenient both for classes with children in a circle and at home, because. gives a system of game tasks and a lot of ideas. This book is actually a "ready-made tool", a ready-made technology for conducting play activities with a baby, which is very easy and simple to use in any family or in any children's center.

2. Albums for children by Darya Koldina "Game drawing" in three parts (publishing house "Sphere"). The album contains ready-made backgrounds and tasks for a child 2-3 years old.

Previously, drawing albums by D. Koldina from the series “Your Baby Can Do It” were also produced and continue to be produced. For example, an album for children 1-3 years old "Fun Drawing" contains the following tasks and ready-made backgrounds:

• draw the rays of the sun
• draw paths,
• draw a fence near the hare's house to protect it from the fox,
• draw balloons
• draw grass and stairs,
• draw windows in the house.

The advantage of these albums ready-made backgrounds, beautiful, you can take and use.

There is also a minus - one album includes tasks for completely different skills, so you can use the albums as additional material (so as not to draw the background yourself) But it is not convenient to study them in the sequence given in them with the child. For many of the tasks, it is also necessary to prepare the child’s pen with preliminary game exercises so that he can complete them (see above about the effective planning of game drawing lessons, which takes into account the characteristics of 2-year-old children, this rule is not taken into account here).

3. “Album for children's creativity. Younger age (1, 5 - 3 years) ”- the album also contains ready-made templates - backgrounds for drawing, and task options. Pluses and minuses are the same as in previous albums. You yourself will have to think in what order and how best to offer tasks from the albums to your baby. It will be necessary to calculate for yourself which of the tasks can be given immediately, and before which it is necessary to carry out preparatory game exercises first so that the baby can cope with them.

If this article turned out to be useful and necessary for you, I will be grateful if you share it on social networks and write a comment. After all, there are many parents around us who want to draw with their baby, but simply do not know where and how to start.

If you drew something interesting based on the materials of this article, I will be glad if you share your result with us.

Step by step instructions. How to teach children to draw. Part 1.

How to draw a ladybug.

Ordinary things for the world of adults, in the understanding and representation of the child, seem completely different. When sometimes you walk in the park and suddenly the kid sees a red ladybug with black unusual spots on a bench - this is a whole discovery for him. He wants to touch, touch, examine the details. It is important to support this children's curiosity and help in the desire to see all the colors of the natural world. In this process, joint drawing lessons are very helpful. After all, you can always easily talk about something and show how it looks. We offer today to make a trip to the world of nature and draw a small and smiling ladybug. I think your baby, and you yourself, will be happy with such an exciting undertaking, and we will help you make this process accessible and interesting. Look at our step-by-step tips and you will succeed!

How to draw a goat.

Drawing a goat is not difficult if you are a professional, but not all of us are artists by vocation. And children love to draw different animals and they do not understand that adults may not be able to do this. What is the right thing to do in this case? This guide will help you here. It describes everything step by step. All you need to get started is a blank sheet of paper, a pencil and an eraser. Try it, for sure you and your child will be satisfied with the result.

How to draw a lion.

Many children want to be strong, brave, beautiful, to be in the spotlight. These qualities are often inherent in the lion as the king of beasts. Therefore, choosing a lion as an object for drawing with a child will never go wrong. It remains to acquire elementary stationery in the form of a pencil, paper and an eraser. A little effort - and you will get a delightful lion, or rather a lion cub for a start. So feel free to get inspired and start drawing. And our step-by-step pictures will help you cope with this task easily and effortlessly.

How to draw an ostrich.

Your child has already tried to play with all his toys today, but nothing has entertained him. What to do? Take out paper and pencils and try to draw something unusual, at least a cute ostrich. And it’s not a problem that you don’t know how and don’t know how to do it right, don’t worry - you have a step-by-step instruction with which you can do everything easily and simply without any difficulties, and most importantly, everything will work out. And so, we take paper, pencils, erasers and sit down at the robot. It would be best if you and your child draw separately, that is, everyone will be busy with their own creation, and, of course, you need to help each other if something doesn’t work out. Go ahead, look at the monitor and start!

How to draw a snail.

A simple and easy step-by-step instruction on how to draw a snail yourself with a pencil will help you learn the basics of drawing in a matter of minutes and replenish your collection or pamper your child with a new sketch.

How to draw an owl.

To learn how to draw an owl well, you do not need a lot of time and effort. Our simple step-by-step instruction with pictures on how to draw an owl will help you in this venture. You just need to be patient and pick up a pencil. Follow our steps and you will comprehend the basics of the art of drawing.

How to draw a tiger.

Do you want to quickly and easily master the art of drawing? Then our step-by-step instruction with pictures on how to draw a tiger cub is just for you. All. What you will need is a blank piece of paper and a pencil.

How to draw a fish.

How to draw a dinosaur.

Sometimes you ask a child - what should you draw? And in your mind you already draw funny little people, a cat or a dog with a pencil. And the answer sounds unexpected - I want a dinosaur. The task becomes more complicated, but this is only at first glance. If you look, these are the same four legs, torso, head and tail. So feel free to take a pencil, paper, eraser and surprise yourself and your child ahead. And we will help make this activity simple and fun. In any case, you can always say that you have a special kind of dinosaur that no one has seen yet.

How to draw a cat.

Many parents are faced with a situation where their child runs up to them with a sheet of paper and a pencil and beseechingly asks to draw an animal. And you are far from finishing art courses, but you cannot disappoint a child.We offer you a simple step-by-step instruction in pictures on how to draw a kitten yourself.

Drawing for children 4 years old is a favorite pastime where there is an opportunity to express themselves. Therefore, it is important to introduce kids to this fascinating business as often as possible.

What are the children drawing?

Most often, drawing for children 4 years old is connected with what surrounds them, what they are well aware of, familiar and interested in. In addition, the skills and capabilities of the children should be taken into account. After all, in case of failure, many kids deeply experience their imperfection, their inability to do something well. Therefore, drawing for children 4 years old is best to focus on what is around: nature, pets or favorite toys. There are many ways to depict the selected plot in the picture.

Pattern drawing for preschoolers

The easiest way is to display selected objects using templates. In other words, this is practically coloring, only the contours of the object are not given to the child ready-made, as in the so-called coloring books, but are applied independently when used. turtles, human faces, etc.

Drawing a teddy bear using geometric shapes

The children receive their first drawing lessons. Children 4 years old can be invited to depict their favorite teddy bear using circles and ovals. Moreover, one should not focus on the fact that the drawing will be built using geometry. But while working, you can call the details by their scientific names.

1. The head of a bear can be depicted using a circle.
2. The second circle can be a little larger - this will be the torso. Both figures should touch at the point where the head meets the body.
3. Two small circles located at the top of the head are the ears, they are also in contact with the circumference of the head.
4. All four paws are better to draw oval. They are attached to the body, so they are drawn in such a way that the ovals are in contact with the lower circle.
5. Now eyes and a nose are drawn on the muzzle, arcs are drawn from the nose - this is the mouth.
6. The bear is painted brown, leaving white an oval near the nose with a mouth, circles on the ears and a large oval on the tummy.

Game-lesson "Draw a picture!"

An interesting technique in teaching fine art is drawing on what an adult has done. For such an activity, you need to prepare pictures for drawing for children in advance by transferring the drawing through the glass. It is necessary to draw the outline of the object with lines, but not completely, making them discontinuous in some places.

The story of the turtle Francoise

You can make such an activity more interesting and even fabulous by telling the kids an amazing story.

“The boy Fedya had a painted turtle named Françoise. They were very close friends, went for a walk in the park together, watched cartoons together, and swam in the river together in the summer. But once Fyodor forgot to put the painted turtle in the album at night. And the playful silly kitten played out, played pranks with an eraser and erased almost the entire image from the picture. The next morning the boy wept bitterly: only a pale outline remained of Francoise on the sheet, and even then in some places it was completely erased. Guys, let's help the boy and draw his dear turtle, paint it with paints and return Fedya's beloved friend!

It is important, along with the sketches, to give a sample picture for children to draw so that they can compare their drawings with the original.

Master class "Drawing a turtle"

It is appropriate after the fairy tale about Francoise and Fedya to invite the kids to portray a new girlfriend for the boy. Children of 4-5 years old perceive such drawing as a fun and exciting game. It will not be difficult for the guys to portray a turtle if they are offered a master class. The drawing can also be built on geometric shapes.

1. First, an oval is drawn.
2. The lower part of the oval is cut off by a straight segment, the excess is erased with an eraser. This will be the body of a turtle in a shell.
3. Just above the lower segment of the shell, you should draw the head of a turtle. Its shape can be round, oval or uneven, but from below it, like a shell, is limited to a straight line segment.
4. Along the edges of the lower part of the shell, you need to depict the paws with short segments of straight lines, which are slightly wider at the bottom than at the top. They can be made not even, but with several fingers.
5. Behind the reptile, you need to draw a short tail.
6. Be sure to put eyes and a mouth on the muzzle, otherwise Françoise will die of hunger and will not be able to see her best friend Fedya!
7. The animal's shell has a pattern, so you need to ask the children to apply the ornament in the picture as well.
8. Shades of green and brown are suitable for coloring.

From simple to complex

After mastering the simplest drawing skills, it is appropriate to move in this direction further. Take, for example, the object for the image is the cat Maruska, who lives in a neighboring yard and often basks in the sun next to the playground when the children go for a walk. The kids must have had a good look at it for a long time. And in order to have fewer problems with drawing, you can offer young artists a master class, where detailed step-by-step instructions are given. Although joint drawing will bring great benefits. For children 4 years old, it is very important to observe from the outside how adults themselves do what they ask kids to do.

Master class "My furry friend" non-traditional drawing with children of the preparatory group of the preschool educational institution

Sokolova Svetlana Sergeevna, teacher of additional education, MBOU DO Center for Children's Creativity in Syava, Nizhny Novgorod Region.
Master Class for children 6-7 years old, parents and teachers.
Appointment of the master class. This master class will be useful for educators, teachers of additional education, educators of the extended day group when teaching children non-traditional drawing techniques. It can also be used by parents who are self-employed with their children.
Children's work can be used for art exhibition, room decoration, gift.
Target: Learn to draw fluffy animals with non-traditional techniques: drawing with a broom and printing with a sponge.
Tasks:
acquaintance with the concept of "artist - animal painter";
develop a sense of texture; develop creativity and interest in the visual arts; educate love for animals, observation.
Material:
A4 paper (color or white),
kitten stencil, (you can take any from the Internet)
gouache,
brushes,
sponge,
whisk,
jar of water.

Kitten patterns:

Live on earth
Creatures of unearthly beauty.
I think you guessed it
What is it - to ... .. (you).
We will dedicate our master class to these cute, charming, graceful and mysterious animals. Let's draw a tailed furry friend. And unusual objects for drawing will help us to portray him fluffy - this is a small broom and a foam rubber sponge.
If there is a pet in the house, then, as a rule, there is peace and tranquility in it. There is a lot of love, warmth and kindness in this house. And next to a pet, most often kind and good people grow up, able to love, sympathize, come to the aid of those who need it.

Man domesticated the cat about 4,000 years ago. And watching a domestic cat, I found many signs.
The cat washes - to the guests.

Hides his nose - to the cold.

There are artists whose animals and birds are the main characters in their drawings and paintings. They are called animalists. The word "animalist" comes from the Latin word "animal", which means "animal". But drawing animals is not so easy. Because animals can't pose. The animalist has to diligently observe and study their habits and character. The artist begins his work with sketches, sketches and sketches from life of living animals, birds, fish, and long-term work is usually carried out from stuffed animals or from photographs.
Artists - animal painters try not only to achieve external resemblance, but also reflect in the drawings the character inherent in the depicted animal or bird, they try to convey the individuality of the animal.

One of these artists, People's Artist of Russia Viktor Chizhikov, is the author of the Olympic bear cub Mishka, the mascot of the XXII Summer Olympic Games, which were held in Moscow in 1980.

He designed the books of Marshak and Barto, Chukovsky and Volkov, Mikhalkov and Nosov. For half a century, his illustrations appeared in the magazines "Funny Pictures", "Murzilka". More than one generation of readers has grown up on his drawings, full of sunlight, humor and joy. One of the artist's favorite themes is the image of cats.
Wonderful illustrations were drawn by Viktor Chizhikov for Andrey Usachev's book Planet of Cats. The artist gave his characters - animals features that are characteristic of people.

There is a cat planet somewhere.
There cats, how people live:
Reading newspapers in bed
And they drink coffee with cream.
They have apartments and cottages,
Cars and other comforts.
They love to fish
And they take the children to the resort.
They fly to overseas countries.
Find diamonds with a fist.
Planting tulips in the flower beds
They even breed dogs.
Luxurious life on the planet
Cats, cats and kittens!
But these strange inhabitants
Always sad about something...
How many good toys!
How many records and books! ..
Here there are no only cats at cats.
Oh, how sad we are without them.
(Andrey Usachyov)

And we have no time to be bored, we begin to draw a fluffy kitten.

Practical work.

We apply a stencil of a cat figure in the middle of the album sheet.

We dip a dry sponge in yellow paint and fill the silhouette with color with printing movements. We start with the head, then the body, then the tail.

It turned out a spot - the figure of a kitten.

In orange, with a small broom, draw small strokes along the contour of the figure in the direction of growth of the kitten's fur.

Select the muzzle, paws, breast and cheeks.

We draw stripes on the tail, sides and head of the kitten.

With a brush, draw the eyes, nose and mouth of the kitten, paint on the mustache and eyebrows.

You can draw the background yourself. You can depict a kitten on a summer lawn. We will also draw grass with a broom, flowers with a brush, clouds with a sponge.

The drawing is ready.

Drawings of pupils of the creative association.

Alina 7 years old

Nastya 6 years old

Vika 6 years old

Natasha 6 years old
In the technique of drawing with a whisk with children, you can draw fluffy and prickly animals, trees.
christmas tree

Drawing a landscape in watercolor step by step for children from 5 years old. Master class with step by step photo

Master class in watercolor painting from 5 years old "Landscape". Introduction to watercolors

Author: Natalya Alexandrovna Ermakova, teacher, Municipal Budgetary Educational Institution of Additional Education for Children "Children's Art School named after A. A. Bolshakov", Velikiye Luki, Pskov Region.
Description: the master class is intended for children from 5 years old and their parents, educators, teachers of additional education.
Purpose: interior decoration, gift, drawing for exhibitions and competitions.
Target: creating a landscape in watercolor.
Tasks:
- to introduce children to the profession of an artist, to give an idea of ​​the fine arts and painting;
- teach how to work with watercolor: wetting paints before painting, diluting with water to get different shades of the same color, thoroughly washing the brush.
- to teach how to work with color when creating a landscape using watercolor technique;
- exercise in working with different numbers of brushes;
- Raise interest in the visual arts.

I have a pencil
colorful gouache,
watercolor, palette, brush
And a thick sheet of paper
And also - an easel-tripod,
Because I ... (artist)
Hello dear guests! Wonderful profession of an artist. He should take paper, brushes, paints. There was nothing on paper, but the first lines appeared: one, the other - the picture is ready.
An artist can draw everything: a house, a forest, people, animals. And the artist paints pictures. And writes according to his plan, like a writer
An artist is a person who knows how to see beauty in the ordinary, remembers his impressions and knows how to express his thoughts and fantasies on paper, stone or other material.

The artist knows how to create new worlds in his paintings and drawings, unprecedented beauties and outlandish animals, and sometimes something completely new, the colors on the drawings turn into fireworks of colors and shades, they cause incredible joyful emotions.
The first artists appeared in the Stone Age. The role of canvas or paper was then played by the walls of stone caves and various household items of ancient people, and charcoal and mineral dyes served as paints for artists. The work of the artist was closely connected with the manufacture of paints, and people considered this to be a magical act. Much later, people began to paint icons, portraits, still lifes, landscapes, and they began to call all this the world of fine arts (the art of capturing images).

So, artists are people involved in fine arts, there are many different directions in this profession:
-Artist-artist in the broad sense of the word (he can do everything)
-A person who makes visual arts
-Graphic artist-engaged in graphics (pencil drawings, charcoal, felt-tip pens)
-Photo artist-does photo art
-Artist-animator
-Illustrator

- Painter - painting.
Painting is the art of representing objects with colors. One of the types of fine arts associated with the transmission of visual images by applying paint to a rigid or flexible surface. The name came from the two words "live" (live) and "write" (draw) - that's how it turns out to write like a living thing, and the artists involved in painting began to be called painters.

In the art gallery
There are very, very many of them.
On this sea we see
And over there on that road.
Oil, watercolor
Creation artists. (Paintings)
There are many different directions (themes for drawing) in painting, consider some of them:
If you see what's in the picture
Someone looks at us
Or a prince in an old cloak,
Or a climber in a robe,

Pilot or ballerina
Or Kolya, your neighbor,
Be sure to picture
It's called a portrait.

If you see in the picture
A cup of coffee on the table
Or juice in a large decanter,
Or a rose in crystal
Or a bronze vase
Or a pear, or a cake,
Or all items at once,
Know that this is a still life.

If you see in the picture
The river is drawn
Or spruce and white frost,
Or a garden and clouds
Or a snowfield
Or a field and a hut,
Be sure to picture
It's called landscape

The artist paints his paintings and drawings with the help of various paints - gouache, watercolor and many other paints. A real artist first of all always gets acquainted with his paints, studies their properties, colors and shades. Conducts experiments on mixing paints and obtaining new colors, dilutes them with water or draws thickly, saturated. Today we will get acquainted with watercolor, what kind of paints are they?
Their name is associated with water because "Aqua" means "water". When you dissolve them with water and start drawing, the effect of lightness, airiness, subtle color transitions is created. Before painting, paints must be moistened with water. We dip the brush in clean water and shake off the drops on the paints, without touching them with the bristle of the brush.
Before you start drawing, you need to try the colors. Each color is tried on paper, we pick up the paint on the brush and draw small specks of the color of each paint. And you can immediately see which paint is transparent, and which is strong-saturated. A very important feature of watercolors is that the more you dilute them with water, the more transparent they will appear, well, if you add less water, the colors will be more saturated. After trying each color, wash the brush so as not to stain the paint. Watercolor paint is sonorous, transparent, loves cleanliness. After we got acquainted with all the colors, we can conduct experiments on mixing different colors, two, or even three. Remember which paint is friends with which, or vice versa, their friendship ends badly and it turns out a dirty puddle.
Three colors, three colors, three colors
Guys, isn't that enough?
And where can we get green, orange?
And if we mix paints in pairs?
From blue and red (this one)
We will get the color ... (purple).
And we mix blue with yellow.
What color do we get? (green)
And red plus yellow, it's not a secret for everyone,
They will give us of course ... (orange color).
This exercise to get acquainted with colors is carried out before the main task, the children respond with joy and experiment with color. Such an exercise can be carried out on a separate piece of paper, but it is better to have an album "cheat sheet", where the children will do exercises to get acquainted with color and learn various painting techniques each time.

Materials and tools:
- a sheet of paper A3 (for landscape)
- A4 sheet for color testing (or an album)
-watercolor
-brushes of three numbers (large, medium, thin)
- a simple pencil, an eraser (for the youngest children, they can draw a horizon line)
- glass for water
-cloth for brushes

Master class course:

I see a land hitherto unknown.
Around the land is well-groomed.beautiful...
But to me, my soul, it is so charming here!
So wide is the beauty of my Russia!
Today we will draw a landscape, for kids a good role is played by showing the future drawing and examining it, what is depicted on it.

The landscape begins at the border of heaven and earth - this is the horizon line, where they meet each other. We draw the horizon line with the tip of the brush, then we begin to paint over the sky from the very top of the sheet in a horizontal direction. I always draw with the kids, a new technique, a new detail of the work and the children repeat this in their drawing.

Brush strokes should be large, smooth, use the largest brush. The paint must be well diluted with water, and try to create an even, uniform background.

Then, from the horizon line, draw the earth, the field (green). Brush after each color must be thoroughly rinsed. We paint over the surface in the horizontal direction, with a large brush, with green color with a large addition of water.

Now we take a brush of medium size, draw it with the tip. Emerald paint color - draw hills, the paint is bright and saturated.

Using a clean brush and water, blur the emerald lines of the hills, from emerald to basic green. So that you get a smooth transition from color to color. The work takes place with the addition of a large amount of water, almost on a damp background (therefore, the work shines). Excess water can be removed by dabbing with a cloth.

We leave the field to dry and return to work on the sky. We collect red paint on the brush and draw a rich stripe above the horizon line.

My brush, with a clean brush with water, draw a line along the lower edge of the red stripe, blur it.

Similarly, add orange and yellow colors.

Now with vertical small strokes we draw blades of grass, the farther they are from us, the smaller.

Then wash the brush, wring it out and lightly smear the blades of grass, as if rubbing them with a brush. We draw a red sun.

Clapping a brush on a sheet, draw shrubs.

On the horizon line, draw a saturated blue line - a forest in the distance. And with a thin brush of a blade of grass in the foreground of the picture.

With a thin brush we make vertical blue lines, where there is a forest, these are trees.

Select the forest in the distance with a thin black line (thin brush), and draw branches on the bushes.