An overview of unusual drawing techniques for children. Unusual drawing techniques for children Drawings on non-traditional drawing in kindergarten
The standard idea of drawing lessons for many is associated with an album and drawing supplies: paints, pencils, brushes and felt-tip pens. Meanwhile, there are many ways to make a lesson in an unusual and exciting way, one that will cause positive emotions not only in children, but also in adults.
Unusual drawing techniques for children, using non-standard tools and materials, are a great opportunity to show imagination and create spectacular, memorable crafts.
We draw with our hands
A very simple way to draw unusual and varied pictures, using the tool that is always at hand, namely the hand of the artist himself. From a very young age, you can use simple abstract pictures, and when the child gets older, you can complicate the task. The child's hand provides ample opportunities for creating plots, here are two of the simplest ones.
Butterfly
Take a piece of paper, lay it horizontally. Fold in half, fix the fold line well, then unfold the sheet. Put some gouache on the brush (let the child choose the colors on his own), and paint the baby's palm. If the child holds the brush well and confidently, then he can paint his own palm himself, this will give him a lot of pleasure. It is better to paint the pads of the fingers and the palm in different colors, this will make the drawing more vivid.
The young artist applies the painted palm to a sheet of paper. In this case, the base of the palm should be at the fold line of the sheet. Since the wing of a butterfly consists of two parts, once the child applies his palm, slightly turning his fingers down the drawing, the second time, on the contrary, turning his palm up with his fingers.
Then attach the second half of the sheet to the resulting handprint - and you will have a wonderful butterfly. For reliability, you can draw the torso and the head of a butterfly by hand, or cut them out of colored paper and glue them with glue.
Wood
An excellent version of the image of a tree using the same hand, however, now you need not only a palm, but also a part of the hand above the hand.
The technique is simple: the child paints the palm and a piece of the hand just above the wrist with brown gouache, and applies it to a vertically lying sheet of paper. It turns out a tree trunk, which remains to draw foliage. Options are also possible here: you can draw it yourself, or you can glue real leaves collected in the autumn forest.
Pictures in stamps
A creative solution that will make any drawing unexpected and eye-catching is drawing its elements with stamps.
What is a stamp? This is a piece of the base on which the desired pattern is cut out or fixed with improvised means.
Anything can serve as materials for making stamps:
- raw potato tubers;
- small apples cut in half;
- plasticine;
- Lego constructor elements;
- lids from small jars;
- matchboxes and threads.
A versatile and inexpensive impression material that everyone can find.
- Select small tubers, wash and peel them.
- Cut the tuber in half. On the resulting surface of the stamp, depict the imprint that you want to get, for example, it will be a leaf of a tree.
- Use a knife to make cuts that simulate the structure of the sheet. Then dip the finished stamp in paint and make an impression on a pre-prepared piece of paper.
- To create a complete composition, you can make the necessary blank, for example, an image of a tree branch, leaves on which you can draw with the resulting stamp.
Attention: potatoes quickly and well absorb paint, therefore, to obtain impressions of different colors, each time you need to use a new stamp (potato tuber).
Stamps on plasticine
One of the favorite ways for children to create their own stamps. To do this, you will need: a piece of dense plasticine and a ballpoint pen (for small parts). For larger details that need to be extruded into the print, it is best to use a thick lead pencil.
We make an impression:
- Roll a 2-3 cm long sausage out of plasticine. Make the bottom of the sausage smooth and even.
- Take a ballpoint pen and put, pressing deeply inward, a point in the middle of the base of the print. This will be the core of the flower.
- We apply a ballpoint pen to the stamp as follows: with the pointed end towards the center, press well. We make several prints, forming petals around the core of the flower.
- We fill the formed indentations of the stamp with paint, it is better if it is acrylic paints or gouache. The watercolors will pour out giving desaturated colors.
- We print on paper. The composition can be diversified by making several stamps with different patterns.
Apple postcards
For this "tasty" painting technique you will need: several small apples, gouache or acrylic paints, two or three sheets of thick colored cardboard.
Cut the apples into halves, dilute a few colors in an additional bowl. In order for the prints to turn out to be saturated, do not dilute the paints too much. With the cut side of the apple dipped in the paint, invite your child to make several prints on pieces of colored cardboard.
Let the parents not be intimidated by the fact that when they see bright and appetizing prints, children will have a desire to put them on cardboard in an incredible amount. When the prints are dry, the sheets of cardboard can be cut to fit the postcard format, or by cutting out a square with apple prints, glue it onto a large piece of cardboard in a contrasting color. The tails of the apples can be painted separately. It turns out a wonderful picture for the kitchen!
Thread stamps
This kind of creativity attracts children with funny geometric patterns resulting from the use of ordinary threads.
The main materials for this unusual technique are simple and affordable - these are boxes of matches (you only need boxes, no matches), thick threads of woolen or synthetic yarn, and paints (all except watercolors).
In order to make a stamp, you need to take a small piece of thread and wrap a matchbox with it. The thread should not be too thin and should fit snugly around the box. We dip the resulting stamp in paint and get a spectacular print with a geometric pattern.
Unusual painting and natural materials
The most interesting drawing techniques for children are associated with natural materials of various textures: wood, stone, plant seeds, and, of course, tree foliage.
Collecting leaves in the autumn forest with children, we sometimes do not suspect what room for a flight of imagination and unusual patterns lies in an ordinary dried oak or maple leaf.
Drawings with autumn foliage
Any leaves are needed for these works: large and small, elongated and round, green, yellow with or without cuttings. As you walk in the woods, draw your children’s attention to the variety of shapes and colors of autumn leaves.
Leaf prints
Option one
We take a sheet of not very thick white paper, put it on the table in front of the children. It is better to fix its corners with tape, for this type of work it is important that the sheet does not slide on the table. We lay out three sheets of different shapes next to each other and "print" each sheet in turn, sketching it with colored wax crayon.
Second option
We "print" with leaves, after applying paint on them. This drawing method looks like this.
Take a few large sheets and invite the children to work as autumn wizards. Have them paint one side of each sheet with their own colors, whatever they like, in no particular order. Then have the colored side of the leaves touch the white sheet of paper. You will get bright, juicy prints.
This type of work will allow you to create interesting and bright collages on the autumn theme!
How to create colored paper yourself
Few people know that it is enough just to create spectacular multi-colored paper at home on your own. As a result of this unusual technique, it will turn out to be a bizarre, unusual color, reminiscent of a marble stone pattern.
To create this type of colored paper you will need:
- men's shaving foam;
- watercolor or acrylic paints;
- disposable paper plate for mixing paints;
- paper;
- a piece of thick cardboard.
Apply an even, dense layer of foam to the plate. Lightly dilute the paints with water, the colors should be saturated and bright. Then we take a little paint of each color with a brush and "drip" a few drops of different shades onto a plate of foam in random order.
The next part is most beloved by children of all ages. Having picked up a cotton swab (you can remove it from the cotton tip) or a toothpick, the child should dissolve the colored drops in the foam. As a result, completely bizarre shapes are formed - blots, dots, streaks and incredible color combinations.
Then you need to take a sheet of paper and apply it flat to the multi-colored foam formed in the plate. Turn the sheet over, place it dry side on the table. Now you need to scrape off the remaining foam from the surface of the sheet. To do this, just take a piece of thick cardboard, and holding it vertically, remove excess foam.
A sheet of the resulting colored paper in a bright and cheerful color can be used when it dries.
All of the above variety of works, performed by children and adults in unusual drawing techniques, is ideal for home art lessons, creating drawings using collage techniques and decorating family albums using scrapbooking techniques.
Teacher, specialist of the children's development center
Druzhinina Elena
This material will acquaint parents with a variety of ways and techniques of working with gouache and watercolors, charcoal, sanguine, pastels and other materials, as well as their combination.
The experience of working with children in kindergarten has shown that drawing in unusual ways and using the materials that surround us in everyday life evoke enormous positive emotions in children. Drawing fascinates children, and especially non-traditional ones, children with a great desire to draw, create and compose something new themselves. To instill in children a love of the fine arts, to arouse interest in drawing, you need to start with a game. By the way, unconventional ways of drawing are suitable for this, which, accompanying the traditional ways of drawing, work wonders and turn ordinary activities into a game, into a fairy tale. Drawing in these ways, children are not afraid to make mistakes, since everything can be easily corrected, and from a mistake you can easily come up with something new, and the child gains self-confidence, overcomes the "fear of a blank sheet of paper" and begins to feel like a little artist. He has INTEREST, and at the same time a DESIRE to draw. You can draw with anything, anywhere and in any way! The variety of materials poses new challenges and forces you to come up with something all the time. And from these naive and uncomplicated children's drawings, as a result, a recognizable object emerges - I am. The unclouded joy of satisfaction that “I did it - all this is mine!”.
DRAWING WITH LINE
Material: pencil, felt-tip pen, paper
Progress :
Try to draw an object without lifting a pencil or felt-tip pen from the paper. This is where imagination works!
Or you can close your eyes and draw randomly different uninterrupted lines to the music, then see what happened, what to look like and paint it.
MAGIC THREAD
Material: threads No. 10, rope, gouache of different colors.
Progress:
1st way
Soak one, two, three threads with paints. Spread the threads on a sheet of paper and close with another sheet so that the ends of the threads are visible. Pull one thread, then another, then a third, and hold the top sheet with your hand. The result is a fantasy, space, maybe our mood? Try it, you will get so much joy!
2nd way
Fold the scrapbook in half. Dip the thread into the paint, and then randomly spread it on one side of the sheet, cover the other on top and press with your hand. Open, remove the thread, examine the resulting image. As necessary, finish painting to the final result.
3rd way
Dip the rope into the paint, and then spread it out in a ring or in any other way on a sheet of paper. Cover with another sheet and press down with your palm. Open, remove the rope and look at the resulting image, finish painting.
4th way
Wrap the rope around the cylinder. Make a criss-cross pattern, first put the rope up, then down along the entire length of the cylinder. Absorb the paint onto the rope. Then press the cylinder against the bottom edge of the paper. Pressing tightly, you want it from yourself. A rope pattern will appear on the sheet.
MONOTYPY
Material: paint, brush, paper
Progress:
Fold a piece of paper in half. On one side, closer to the center, apply a few bright colored spots with a brush. Now quickly fold the sheet along the same fold and iron it well with your palm. Open and take a closer look: what happened? Fabulous flowers? Bug? No, it's a beautiful butterfly!
SPLASH
Material: old toothbrushes, gouache, paper, herbarium, silhouettes.
Progress:
A little paint is collected on the tip of the brush. Tilt the brush over a piece of paper, and brush over the nap with a cardboard or comb. The spray will scatter over a clean sheet. So you can depict the starry sky, fireworks. You can also cut out any silhouette and place it on a piece of paper and spray paint. Then remove the silhouette and you will have a trace, it can be supplemented by painting on the missing lines with a brush.
DRAWING WITH SOAP FOAM
Material: plexiglass, watercolors, foam sponge, soap, shampoo, cocktail tube, paper, pencil, brush.
Progress:
1st way
Lather up the foam sponge and squeeze the foam out of it into a plate. Draw a contour on a sheet of paper with a pencil. Apply pure plexiglass to the pencil drawing (you can use coloring). We will use soap foam to paint the drawing on the glass that lies under the glass. Take the foam with a brush and dip it into the watercolor paint of the desired color. Stir until the foam is colored in the color we need. We paint with colored foam on the glass, let it dry. We slightly moisten a clean sheet of paper with water and put the wet side on the glass, press it, then tear it off the glass. All is ready!
2nd way
Add shampoo to a jar of liquid paint, stir well. We lower the tube into the jar and blow until the bubbles rise on top. Then we lower the sheet of paper, then slightly press down and lift it up. For work, you can use paper of different sizes, colors, you can superimpose one soap drawing on another, paint on, cut out, make applications.
DRAWING WITH CANDLE OR WAX GRINS
Material: Candle, paper, brush, paints.
Progress.
1. Transfer - put a sketched outline drawing under a thin album sheet. Circle the top with a candle, then apply paint.
2. Friction - under thin paper put some clearly defined relief pattern, rub the top sheet of paper with a candle and apply paint.
FINGERS - PALETTE. PRINT BY HAND
Material: paint, plates, paper
Progress.
Clench your hand into a fist and press it into the paint. Move it from side to side so that the paint spreads well over your hand. Place the side of your fist on a piece of paper and lift it up. Make some prints. The paint can also be applied with a brush. You can draw with the whole palm, thumb, tip of the little finger, bent finger, bent finger joint of the side of the little finger and palm, bent fingers into a fist, fingertips.
SIGNET
Material: seals, paint paper, plates, pad sponge.
Progress.
This technique allows you to repeatedly depict the same object, composing different compositions from its prints, decorating them with invitation cards, postcards, napkins, scarves, etc.
It is not difficult to make the seals yourself: you need to take an eraser, draw the intended pattern on the end, and cut off everything unnecessary. "Signet" is ready! You can use various paints, corks, sandboxes, etc. Now press the seal to the ink pad and then to the sheet of paper. The result is an even and clear print. Compose any composition!
BLOTGRAPHY. DRAWING WITH STRAW.
Material: cocktail tube, paint brush, water.
Progress.
1st way
We put on a sheet of paper a large blot (liquid paint) and carefully blow on the drop ... It ran upward, leaving a trail behind. Turn the leaf and blow again. And you can make another one, but in a different color. Let them meet. What will happen, think for yourself.
2nd way
Perform any drawing with paint and a brush. Put the drops on the lines you need and blow them up with a straw. The drawing is ready!
DRAWING RAW
Material: wet napkin, container with water, paints, brushes, watercolor crayons.
Progress.
1st way
Wet the paper and place it on a damp cloth (to keep the paper from drying out). Take your watercolor crayon and paint whatever you want.
2nd way
If you don't have watercolor pencils, you can paint with paints and a brush.
CRUMPLED PAPER
Material: paper, paints, brushes, plates.
Progress.
1st way
Crumple a clean sheet of paper with your hands and smooth it out. Draw the intended drawing. This technique is interesting in that at the places of the folds of the paper, the paint becomes more intense, darker during painting - this is called the mosaic effect.
2nd way
Crumple a piece of paper, dip in wet paint, then apply a drawing by wetting. This method can be used for the background, or to complete the work - flowers, tree crown, drifts, etc.
GRATTAGE
Material: Candle, black gouache, shampoo, pointed stick.
Progress.
We will apply a colored background with watercolor or take colored cardboard or plain white paper. The entire background is completely overwhelmed with wax, paraffin. Pour black or colored gouache into an outlet, add a little shampoo and mix thoroughly. Then we will cover the paraffin sheet with this mixture. The canvas is ready.
Now let's take a sharpened stick and start scratching out the drawing. What is not an engraving!
TRIO - INK, WATER, GUACHE
Material: thick paper, gouache, ink, container with water.
Progress.
Dilute the gouache with water and use coarsely wide brush strokes to paint what you have in mind. The main thing is that the drawing is large. When the gouache has set, cover the entire sheet with black ink. And when it dries, dip the "developing" sheet in the water bath. The gouache will wash off the paper, but the ink will remain. An interesting white outline of the drawing with various edges will appear on a black background. .
DRAWING METHOD - "POINT"
Material: A slate pencil with an elastic band at the end, an old cut-off brush 1 mm thick, a bristle brush, a felt-tip pen tube with inserted foam rubber, white paper, coloring books, a plate, gouache.
Progress.
Gouache is poured into the plates. Then with the help of the made "pokes" paint is applied to the image, first along the contour, then the inner image. The finished drawing imitates the pointillism painting technique. With a dry bristle brush, you can poke animal hair, a clearing, a tree crown. The variety of images depends on the chosen material for the poke.
DRAWING METHOD - FRICTION
Material: Dried leaves, silhouettes with a pronounced relief, cotton wool, powder from planed leads of colored pencils.
Progress.
Put a dried leaf, branch, flowers, silhouette under thin paper, rub on top with a cotton or rag swab with powder from a pencil lead. Glue the image obtained on thin paper on thick paper - you get a postcard. In this way, you can create a plot composition, a decorative pattern.
In the same way, you can rub the edges of the silhouette that are attached to the sheet of paper.
DRAWING BY THE APPLICATION METHOD
Material: Brushes of different sizes, gouache, watercolor, ink, paper
Progress.
Having dipped the brush into the paint, attach its tail to a sheet of paper and lift it up to form a drop. If you apply such droplets in a circle, you get a flower. By dipping, you can draw leaves of trees, animals and other drawings, you just have to dream up.
DRAWING WITH THE SPOT METHOD
Material: Brush # 10, 3, paper, paint, felt-tip pens, wax pencils, charcoal or other graphic materials
Progress.
1st way
Use a wide brush to apply a spot randomly or in accordance with the intended image. When it dries up, the missing details are additionally painted on with paint or other visual materials. In this way, you can draw animals, flowers, etc.
2nd way
Draw the eyes, nose, mouth with a wax pencil. Then paint those yellow spots with a wide brush on top of the image with paint - you get a funny bun. So you can depict trees, branches and a trunk to draw with wax pencils, and paint the crown. Imagine.
MAGIC BALLS
Material: box lid, balls, paint, paper, brushes, water.
Progress.
Place a sheet of paper in a box, apply several multi-colored or monochromatic drops of paint on it. Put in a box
2-3 balls and shake the box so that the balls roll, mixing paints, creating a pattern.
DRAWING WITH NATURAL MATERIALS
Material: Dried leaves, twigs, poppy pods, moss, cones, spikelets, etc. Paper, low hollow forms with paint - gouache, tempera, brush.
Progress.
Natural material is dipped in a mold with paint and applied to paper, lightly pressed - an imprint remains. Depending on the image, a natural material for printing is also selected.
If you ate a dried leaf from a tree, a bush, paint and print on paper, you can get trees, flowers, the sun and other images. Poppy boxes can be used to draw stars, dandelions, snowflakes, etc. Lichen, moss make beautiful meadows with grass, fluffy animals, tree crowns, etc.
DRAWING WITH PLASTIC
Material: thick paper or cardboard, plasticine, pencil.
Progress.
On a thick sheet of paper or cardboard, draw an outline with a pencil. Draw on it with warm plasticine. It turns out very expressively. The kids are absolutely delighted.
DRAWING WITH TAPE
Material: Colored tape, scissors, colored and white paper, coloring book, waterproof colored markers.
Progress.
A linear drawing with a large image without small details is pre-selected. Then the image is filled with small pieces of scotch tape. At the end of the work, all small details are drawn with a marker.
INK DRAWING
Material: ink, paper, sponge, stroke
Progress.
1st way
The work is done on a horizontal surface. The sheet of paper is pre-soaked. Then either drops of mascara are applied, or, turning the tube of mascara over, draw lines, lightly pressing on it. An interesting blurry image is obtained, which, after drying, is complemented by a clear linear pattern with a drawing of details with a glue pen, felt-tip pen or other graphic material.
If you cover the entire sheet with blue ink, and then apply dots with a white stroke, you get a snowy evening sky.
2nd way
On a damp but well-wrung out sponge, stripes of colored mascara are applied across the width. The sponge is turned over with paint down - "face" to a wet sheet of paper, and a continuous line is drawn - a rainbow, field, waves, bush, etc.
Various movements of the hand with a sponge leave various traces that can be easily turned into a butterfly, snail, flower, complementing the drawing with characteristic strokes.
GEL GRAPHICS
Material: Black paper, a set of gel pens, a simple pencil.
Progress.
1st way
Monochrome technique. Apply a linear image on a black background with a white (silver) gel pen (note: it is necessary to show a sense of proportion). Castles, landscapes, painting of miniatures look expressive in this way. Preliminary sketches can be done in pencil. The error can be easily retouched with gouache or black ink, choosing the desired shade.
2nd way
Polychrome technique. On a black background, they work with colored gel pens, tint the image with white or silver gel. White tone will give freshness, brightness, silver imitates metallography. After drying, you need to make an underpainting (white, silver) and apply the required colors. In exceptional cases, for example, when painting Easter eggs, spinning wheels, let's say a colored background.
The work of this kind looks great when it is issued in the passport.
TONING PAPER
Material: White paper, starch paste, rag, baths, gouache, glue or oil paints, oil thinner (gasoline).
Progress:
1st way
Dilute 2-3 tones of oil paint with oil thinner to the thickness of very liquid sour cream. Each color in a separate bowl, with a separate brush.
Pour cold water into a bowl or tray, sprinkle diluted paint of the same color on it. Put a sheet of paper on the resulting stains (marble film) (hold the paper by the bent corner) and remove immediately.
On other sheets, you can sprinkle 2-3 paints of different colors at once. Dry the dyed paper on a newspaper and put it under a press. Paper dyed in this way resembles streaks of marble.
2nd way
Take glue or gouache paints of 2-3 colors, boil the starch paste, pour it into a tray or plate, add paint to it and stir slightly. Obtained in the form of a paste or jelly, the colored mass is applied to the paper with a brush, then the excess is removed with a cloth, brush, comb or hard brush. The desired pattern can also be obtained by attaching a spruce branch or by drawing all kinds of lines in different directions.
COLORFUL FIGURES ON GLASS
Material: Paints in tubes, transparent film or glass surface, sheet of paper, adhesive tape.
Progress:
1st way
To get a drawing, it is necessary to squeeze the paint from the tubes onto the film in thin strips, leaving wide margins from each other.
You can use a lot of different colors.
Gently place the second layer of film on the image, press down on the edges. Smooth out the paint with your fingertips. Attach the painting to the window, smooth it out and watch the light play on the colors. Paste over the perimeter with adhesive tape.
2nd way
Paint is applied to glass and mirror in the same way as in the first method. Then they put paper on it and press it on top with another glass, or some other heavy object. This will allow the paint to spread across the sheet of paper at the same time. Then the load is removed and the paint on the paper is dry. After that, small details are painted with a brush or other visual materials.
THE MAGIC OF THE PAPER
Material: Toilet paper, landscape paper, baths, paint, brushes.
Progress:
Pour the paint into trays, dilute with water.
Prepare toilet paper in 6-4-2 squares, about 18 strips.
To make flowers fold strips of 4-6 squares in half and in half again. Roll them into tubes. Soak paper in paint. Then quickly dip it in a bowl of warm water and leave to dry for a few seconds. Fold the paper into a ring on a stack of newspapers, press on top of it so that the paint and water drip off.
To make leaves bend strips of paper from 2 squares in half, and roll into a tube. Also paint and press like flowers.
Place flowers and leaves on a dish, cover with tracing paper and dry in the oven for 10 minutes.
The finished flowers are placed and glued to paper. You can add a vase, twig, or other details as you wish.
Information prepared by: teacher of fine arts, L.V. Ovsyankina
There are a lot of unconventional drawing techniques. Such activities are not only interesting for children in the garden, but are also of great benefit. They contribute to the development of the child's creative thinking and imagination. About what non-traditional drawing techniques are in kindergarten will be discussed in this article.
The role of using non-traditional drawing techniques in the artistic development of preschoolers
As mentioned above, the use of non-traditional drawing in kindergarten is beneficial for children. Due to the fact that in drawing you can use objects that are completely atypical for this, children of the preschool educational institution open up opportunities for non-standard thinking. It turns out that they are having fun and usefully. They experiment with different drawing techniques and try different ways of expressing themselves. Classes develop observation, creativity, artistic taste. The educational process turns into a fun game. Therefore, in kindergartens, modern methods of creative activities are increasingly used. Diagnostics of the use of non-traditional drawing methods in kindergartens shows good results.
An unconventional spray painting technique
Non-standard ways of drawing are always fun, emotional and creative. The result of such creativity is beautiful and unusual, even if the child does not have artistic skills.
Themes for drawing in kindergarten
The topic of drawing in preschool classes can be very diverse. Usually caregivers are based on seasonality. Therefore, for example, for autumn, it will be relevant to paint a yellow-red landscape or use fallen leaves in the process itself.
For a younger age, it is better to choose well-known objects: animals, flowers, trees. These themes are always relevant and doable with just about any painting technique.
Note! In the event that there are not enough ideas for drawing, you can always use thematic literature with examples of work. Alternatively, you can get advice on non-traditional drawing methods from more experienced teachers.
Types of non-traditional drawing in kindergarten
Especially valuable in non-traditional methods is that most of them are within the power of young children, in contrast to the usual drawing with a brush or felt-tip pens and pencils. For middle-aged children (4-5 years old), more complex techniques are available, which are performed with the help of adults. Children 6-7 years old can use all non-traditional methods on their own.
Fingerprint
The simplest and most common non-traditional technique is drawing with the fingertips. Special finger paints are well suited for this, you can also use gouache or watercolor, having previously wet it with water.
All that is required of the child is to dip a finger in the paint and leave a print on the paper. Thus, it is interesting to color the templates (they can be printed or drawn by hand):
- Add leaves to the bare tree;
- On the stem and core - petals;
- For the ladybug, make spots on the back;
- For the New Year tree - toys;
- White spots on the cap of the fly agaric;
- Spots on the wings of butterflies.
Note! Any picture can be completely colored using fingertip printing or missing elements can be added.
Hand drawing
- Chick. You should put yellow paint on your palm and leave a print on the paper - you get a body. Then apply paint to the cam and thus make the chicken head. It remains to add the beak, legs and eyes.
- Fish. To do this, you can apply different colors to the palm, then leave a print on paper and add eyes and fins to the image.
- Wood. To do this, use brown or black palm print ink. Then decorate the resulting tree with leaves using fingertigraphy.
- Peacock. This beautiful bird will be made from two or more handprints. Then you should draw on the head, paws, eyes and decorate the tail.
- Flower. It is worth using a bright paint to leave an imprint. Then add a stem with leaves to it.
Cockerel made from a palm print
Note! The open palm most of all resembles a bird. Therefore, using this technique, you can make any bird of your choice.
Drawing with cotton swabs (poke method)
This method resembles fingerprinting, but it uses an alternative fingerprint tool - a cotton swab. The footprint from it turns out to be small and more round, so this method is good for drawing specks for animals. Another option is to completely color the image with pokes, thus obtaining a mosaic effect. Using cotton swabs, you can draw the following:
- Grains from a mouse or chicken;
- Rowan berries;
- Snowfall;
- Rain;
- Starry sky.
You can also use a few pokes to create an object of the required shape, for example, leaves of a tree or flowers.
Note! You can draw with several sticks at once; for convenience, you can fasten them with a string.
Drawing with free-flowing substances
For this method, you can use salt, sand, or some kind of cereal. Drawing takes place in stages. First, you need to put a drawing on the paper. Then drop PVA glue in certain places and sprinkle them with salt or cereals. After drying, shake off excess. You will get an unusual volumetric drawing. You can experiment with this drawing method on the following topics:
- Winter forest;
- Fireworks;
- Snowstorm;
- Pattern on the wings of a butterfly;
- Flowers.
Snow covered birch made with salt
Note! It is more interesting and colorful to use colored grains or sand. To do this, you can use food coloring or buy ready-made colored sand.
Crumpled paper drawing
For this method, it is more convenient to use gouache. You will need a small piece of paper and wrinkle it up. Then dip this lump in paint (if necessary, add water to the gouache) and start applying it to the paper. At the same time, the drawing is airy and light. Here are some ideas for what you can draw this way:
- Lilac branches;
- Dandelions;
- Clouds;
- Snow-covered fir trees;
- Blooming meadow.
Lilac branches
Note! In this way, you can color the image unconventionally. For example, make a shaggy cat or a fluffy owl.
Drawing with threads in kindergarten
Threading can be a little tricky for preschoolers, so it is recommended to do it in older groups. This is a rather complicated technique and little ones will not cope with it. To create such a pattern, you need to prepare threads (it is advisable to choose thicker, for example, woolen). Next, you need to cut off a thread about 30 cm long and dip it well in the paint. Then you should put the thread on the paper, for example with an eyelet, and pull it down. For convenience, you can use two sheets of paper to firmly press the thread on both sides. Another option is to fold the sheet in half and thread it inside. You can create a variety of patterns, for example:
- Abstraction;
- Flowers;
- Snail (for this, the thread should be folded in a spiral);
- Butterfly.
Note! Thread printing is the most difficult drawing technique for children. But the result is very unusual, and the process of creation is interesting and will please not only children, but also adults.
Monotype
This is a technique for creating an image using a print. For kindergarten, a method is suitable when a sheet of paper is folded in half and an image is applied on one side with paints. Then the drawing is pressed against the other half of the sheet, thus a symmetrical image is obtained. What can be portrayed in this technique by painting only half of the image?
- Butterfly;
- Reflection in the water of the landscape;
- Ship with reflection;
- A vase of flowers;
- The sun;
- Wood.
Landscape with reflection in monotype technique
Note! Monotype is interesting in that its result can be unpredictable. The resulting drawing always comes out unique.
Drawing with foam rubber in kindergarten
The process of execution and the result in the end is similar to. For this technique, you will need a piece of foam rubber or a sponge for washing dishes. Foam rubber does not need to be soaked in water, it should be dipped in paint immediately. Ideas for images in this technique:
- Snowman;
- Christmas trees;
- Crown of trees;
- Winter in the forest.
Landscape painted with foam rubber
In this technique, you can paint animals, then they come out as if fluffy.
Blotography
The essence of this method is to drop paint on the sheet at the initial stage, forming a blot. Then it should be supplemented with various details, having received a drawing. This method perfectly develops the imagination of children.
You can use a cocktail straw to create blots or splashes of paint on paper. Using the same tube, you can inflate the blot, getting the desired image, for example, the following:
- Tree branches;
- Man's hairstyle;
- Any character.
Note! You can supplement the image with the same paints or felt-tip pens, or even plasticine.
Painting with wax crayons
You can replace the wax crayon with a paraffin candle. The essence of this technique is that with the help of a crayon, you can draw a drawing, which then will not be painted over with watercolors and, as it were, will appear on the surface. Examples of possible images:
- Fireworks in the night sky;
- Sea bottom;
- Cloudy sky;
- Stained glass.
Note! If you use a white crayon, you can make a secret drawing or a note, since the image on the paper will appear only after using the paint.
"Secret" image
Splashing
The creation of an image in this technique consists in sprinkling paint on paper. To do this, you can use a toothbrush or a stiff brush. In this case, the splashes are small and distributed chaotically. Therefore, it is better to use stencils to obtain the desired shape. It could be a stencil:
- Christmas trees;
- Cat;
- Flowers;
- Wood.
Note! In addition, with the help of a splatter, you can fill the background of the future picture. It can be grass, starry sky, snowfall.
Raw drawing
In this method, paint is applied to a wet surface. As a result, you can get a blurred background for the future drawing. At the preparatory stage, it is better to mark the future drawing with a pencil on a piece of paper. This should be done before you need to wet it with water. Do not wet it too much; remove excess water with a sponge. Watercolors on wet paper will spread evenly from the brush. Thus, you can let the different colors mix by themselves, then the color transition will look even. What can be drawn on raw, except for a solid background:
- The setting sun in the sky;
- Clouds and clouds;
- Flowers;
- Trees;
- Sea bottom.
Note! After the background has dried, you can add any details to the picture: birds, fish, or an outline.
Batik
This is a technique for painting on fabric. For the lesson, you will need a piece of white cotton material. For a kindergarten, the simplest version of painting is suitable - nodular. To do this, you need to tie several knots on the fabric, then dip them in the paint. After drying, the knots should be untied - interesting patterns will remain on the fabric.
Drawing with corks in kindergarten
Balsa corks are good for making circular prints on paper. It is better to take several corks so that you can use each one for its own paint color and not mix them. In this technique, you can draw:
- Berries;
- Caterpillar;
- Chickens;
- Leaves;
- Flowers.
Note! If you cut off the cork, you can reshape the prints.
Stamping
This technique is quite simple to implement and will suit even younger kindergarten groups. The point is to dip a stamp in paint and leave a print on the paper. Moreover, you can choose anything as a stamp, for example, the following:
- Leaves;
- Vegetables;
- Fruits;
- Twigs.
Note! It is very convenient to cut stamps of various shapes from potatoes. You can also make stamps from a foam sponge.
Ebru
Drawing on water using the ebru technique
How to outline a drawing lesson in a non-traditional technique
The purpose of such a lesson should be to familiarize children with one or another technique of non-standard drawing. It is necessary to draw their attention to the features of this technique: how the paint behaves, what is obtained in the picture.
Non-traditional drawing requires careful organization. The main task is to lure children, especially younger ones. To do this, tell a fairy tale or poem that is suitable for the occupation. Then you need to figure out how this can flow into drawing, for example, you will need to help the chick to hatch from the egg. Children, in turn, will have to draw it with their own palm.
Note! At the end of the lesson, you can collect work and organize a presentation on one topic. Such exhibitions of works should be arranged after each non-traditional drawing lesson.
Non-traditional drawing methods contribute to the creative development of the child. If in the kindergarten program there are no visual classes of this nature, then parents should conduct them on their own.
All children love to draw. But sometimes the child does not turn out the way he wants. Or maybe he doesn't know enough ways to express himself? Then you can inspire him to experiment with different techniques, among which there will definitely be a favorite. After that, your child will probably want to invent something new.
Dot patterns
First, draw the simplest squiggle. Then, using a cotton swab and paints (gouache or acrylic), we make intricate patterns as the soul lies down. It is better to pre-mix the paints and slightly dilute with water on a palette.
Frottage
This technique is familiar and beloved by many since childhood. We put an object with a slightly protruding relief under a sheet of paper and paint over it with pastel, chalk or not sharpened pencil.
Foam rubber prints
Having dipped a sponge in thick gouache, the child can draw landscapes, bouquets of flowers, lilac branches or animals.
Blotography
One option is to drip paint onto a sheet and tilt it in different directions to get an image. Second: the child dips a brush in paint, then places a blot on a sheet of paper and folds the sheet in half so that the blot is imprinted on the second half of the sheet. Then he unfolds the sheet and tries to understand who or what the drawing looks like.
Other drawings by the method of blotting can be viewed
Hand and foot prints
It's simple: you need to dip your foot or palm in paint and make a print on paper. And then use your imagination and add a couple of details.
More details about the method of drawing with palms can be found
Paint patterns
For such an application, you need to apply a thick layer of paint on paper. Then, with the opposite end of the brush, scratch patterns on the still wet paint - various lines and curls. When dry, cut out the desired shapes and stick on a thick sheet.
Fingerprints
The name speaks for itself. You need to paint your finger with a thin layer and make a print. A couple of strokes with a felt-tip pen - and you're done!
Monotype
On a flat smooth surface (for example, glass), a drawing is applied with paint. Then a sheet of paper is applied, and the print is ready. To make it more blurred, the sheet of paper must first be wetted. When everything is dry, you can add details and outlines if you like.
Scratchboard
The highlight of the work is that the drawing needs to be scratched. A sheet of cardboard is densely shaded with spots of multi-colored oil pastels. Then black gouache must be mixed with soap on a palette and painted over the entire sketch. When the paint is completely dry, scratch the drawing with a toothpick.
Air paints
To prepare the paint, you need to mix a tablespoon of "self-rising" flour, a few drops of food coloring and a tablespoon of salt. Add a little water until the consistency of thick sour cream and mix well. The paint can be placed in a pastry syringe or in a small bag. Tie tight and notch corner. We draw on paper or plain cardboard. We place the finished drawing in the microwave for 10-30 seconds at the maximum setting.
"Marble" paper
Paint over a sheet of paper with yellow acrylic paint. When it is completely dry, paint over again with diluted pink paint and immediately cover with cling film. The film needs to be crumpled and gathered in folds, since it is they who will create the desired pattern for us. We wait until it dries completely and remove the film.
Painting with water
Draw a simple shape in watercolor and fill it with water. Until it's dry, we put colored blots on it so that they mix with each other and form such smooth transitions.
Vegetable and Fruit Prints
The vegetable or fruit must be cut in half. Then you can cut some kind of pattern on it or leave it as it is. We dip in paint and make prints on paper. For prints, you can use an apple, potato, carrot, or celery.
Leaf prints
The principle is the same. We smear the leaves with paint and make prints on paper.
Drawings with salt
If you sprinkle salt on the still wet watercolor painting, it will soak in the paint and, when dry, will create a grainy effect.
Brush instead of a brush
Sometimes it’s worth trying something unexpected as an experiment. For example, a household brush.
Ebru, or drawing on water
We need a container of water. The main requirement is that its area coincides with the area of a sheet of paper. You can use an oven roaster or a large tray. You will also need oil paints, a solvent for them and a brush. The point is to create patterns with paint on water, and then dip a sheet of paper in them. How it's done.
Hello everyone! We continue to provide interesting ideas for educators, parents and teachers. And today we will talk about non-traditional drawing techniques. These ideas are suitable for kindergarten and school. Unconventional drawing doesn't mean complicated. On the contrary - it is the unconventional technique that turns the art classes into simple and fun fun. No need to draw complex elements, no need to masterfully own a brush. Non-traditional techniques were CREATED because they SIMPLIFY the child's work, EASIER the teacher's task in methodological terms and give the child an amazing creative experience with an excellent final result. You will see what beautiful paintings and drawings can be done with simple non-traditional drawing techniques. The child will love your activities - he himself will be drawn to art when he feels that he can create beauty with his own hands.
I have laid out all the techniques of non-traditional drawing in SEPARATE GROUPS - and I will explain and show everything in order.
Unconventional drawing
PRINTS WITH PALS
In kindergarten, in the classroom for art activities, it is important to choose a job that will be feasible for young children. In the second youngest group, children do not control the brush well, it is difficult for them to force the brush to draw a line, an oval, a circle ... Therefore, at this age, quick and beautiful work-drawings in the technique of drawing with palms are interesting.
You can draw such a cute little family hen and chickens with your child's hands.
The green paint will give you a print that you can play in the form of a frog. The eyes can be drawn separately on white circles of paper (by the teacher themselves) and the children simply glue their eyes onto the drawing with PVA glue.
Here is another example of an applique pattern in this unconventional DIY painting technique. If we add side wings and sharp tips of the ears to the palm print, we get the silhouette of an owl. The background for such a craft can be chosen from black cardboard, and a large circle of yellow paper (moon) can be glued onto it. And already against the background of the lunar disk, make an owl-palm print. And then when the print dries up we add a long branch on which this owl sits.
The palm acts as a template - first a sketch, trace the palm on a piece of paper, and then try to draw an eye here or there. And look closely to see which character is looking at you.
Likewise for crafts in the unconventional technique "Palm + paint" you need to prepare the background in advance. Or create a green lawn and a pond for ducks from colored paper. Or draw in advance - tint the sheet in blue and green paint, dry it and prepare it for the lesson (hold it under heavy pressure from books).
As you can see in the photo below, you can add overhead details to the palm element of the picture - appliqués made of paper and other materials. Below is an example of how plain gray paper from a box can become a prototype for a craft. To make it easier for a small child to draw circle lion face- give him a jar lid template. Let the children trace the round cap along the center of the "cardboard mane" with a pencil and then carefully paint over the circle with paint - first, stroke with a slow brush along the edge of the line, and then paint over the middle. We finish the black details of the mustache, nose and ears with a marker (the teacher himself when the craft dries up).
In unconventional drawing with palms, images of birds are often used. Here is a simple idea for drawing a sparrow in kindergarten. Easy and quick to draw with your own hands for children in the middle group.
And here are the ideas of non-traditional hand drawing for children of the middle and senior group. Craft of the MONKEY. Here you need to position the palm correctly - so that the fingers are turned towards the vine, on which the monkey will hang. Then draw a beautiful curl of the tail with a brush. And already from the paper applique to lay out the head.
But a lesson on non-traditional drawing of the older group - here you first need to draw a tree (trunk, branches, leaves). The leaves are just traces from the brush (pressed the brush sideways. Raised it sharply up so that the trace does not smear). While the children are busy drawing the leaves, the trunk will dry up well and the imprint of a koala bear will already perfectly lie on it, as against a dry background. A beautiful craft for both kindergarten and school (grades 1-4).
And here is a beautiful bright hand-made drawing of GIRAFFE. Here we also see the base from the palm print. But a long neck element with a head is added to the drawing. Wait until the red base is completely dry before applying spots and streaks of the mane. The mane is placed with the imprint of the brush - we apply the brush to the flank and sharply raise it upwards, it turns out a trace-imprint like a piece of hairs of the mane - we give a lot of prints along the entire cervical ridge of the giraffe. It is easier to draw round spots with a cotton swab (the circles will not be even with a brush - not all children know how to draw a circle with a brush - this is a difficult technique that they will master after they learn to write letters).
For the older group of kindergarten, a palm drawing in the form of a rainbow magic unicorn is suitable. Great craft for girls. The horn will be drawn by the teacher.
And the boys will love the drawing in the form of a dragon - also in this technique.
Also, small children are very fond of collective crafts. Where the whole kindergarten group participates in one common art work. For example, on a large sheet of paper, burn out the outlines of the peacock's future body - and build the prints of the feathers of its lush tail around it. And then when the tail dries up, you can stick the body itself in the center.
Drawing with FORKS.
non-traditional equipment in kindergarten.
Disposable plastic forks are a tool that can create interesting non-traditional painting techniques for you. All drawings where needed characteristic shaggy smear, it will become easy and quick to draw even for a small child.
Here is a sample of such work for children in kindergarten. The teacher draws a stump on a sheet of paper. From the hemp goes up the line is the AXIS of the future tree... We scoop up the thick paint with a fork and apply prints in the direction from the side of the axis down. First, we process the right side of the axis, then the left side of the central core of the tree.
And for the third stage - we put one more layer of CENTRAL smears on top of these strokes - already more vertically downward from the center, slightly diverging slightly to the sides.
For convenience Pour paint into bowls - can lids are perfect.
AND so that paint consumption is less , gouache can be diluted with PVA glue - one to one, or in another proportion. Valuable advice - do not buy SCHOOL PVA in small tubes - go to the hardware store and buy a liter (or half-liter) bucket of PVA glue there. It will be called universal PVA, or construction PVA - don't let that confuse you. In terms of chemical composition, it is exactly the same as school PVA glue. But at a price of 5 or 10 times cheaper. And in a bucket, the glue does not lose its freshness, as in a tube. And a liter bucket is enough for a kindergarten group for 3-4 months of active classes.
In such an unconventional technique, you can draw any KEY elements of the picture - for example, HEDGEHOG or CACTUS.
Also the fork will help to draw shaggy characters. For example, a yellow fluffy CHICKEN, or a kitten, or a bear cub.
Since the paint already contains PVA glue, any paper parts (beak, eyes, ears, tails, etc.) can be glued to the wet paint that has not yet dried.
Also, a forked stroke is similar to the plumage of birds. Therefore, you can draw a drawing of any bird using this technique. This is how it happens in the photo of the craft below - COCK ..
TEACHING METHOD - classical.
On two samples of the picture.
What is the best way to TEACH DRAWING in kindergarten. Here is a technique that has been working great in kindergarten for several years now. This technique allows you to get the RIGHT child's drawing the first time. Let's analyze it using the example of the same COCK from the picture above.
STEP 1
We seat the children on a high chair (in 2 rows) in front of one table. The teacher will do the show on it. There are already outlines of a rooster drawn in pencil on a sheet of paper. Three bowls contain different colors - yellow, red, blue. Each color has its own fork.
In front of the eyes of the children, we begin our work - we draw feathers with a fork, freely mixing paints. We show how it is not correct, and how it is correct. Let the children, using your example, make sure that it is better to draw the lines ALONG the neck, and ALONG the tail lines, and not across.
STEP 2
We drew the plumage of one rooster in front of the children. Now we make him a friend - we take another sheet with a pencil rooster, and ask the children, "What should be done?" Children tell you, you "mow", children correct you, tell you the right way - you are correcting yourself and continue to make mistakes and then correct. Now children already act as a "knowledgeable teacher"... After this game of drawing the second rooster. The children themselves sit down at the tables, where the same pencil rooster is waiting for them and, already with knowledge of the matter ”, each one does his own job.
As you can see, the demonstration technique always works better on 2-X training drawings by the teacher's hand.
- The first drawing, where the teacher does everything himself (teaching and explaining to children)
- The teacher performs the second drawing at the prompts of the children ("making mistakes" and correcting).
- The third drawing is already done by each child himself, at his table, with an intelligent, learned look.
Unconventional DRAWING
Footprints
The print of a child's foot, like the palms, can be turned into an interesting drawing. All kinds of characters can hide in a child's footprint.
Such pictures can be created using the unconventional drawing technique from an ordinary print of a child's foot.
I'll tell you right away that in the realities of a kindergarten (where there are 30 children in a group) this foot drawing is difficult to organize. In the case of drawings with palms, everything is simple: children wipe their palms with a wet cloth (remove the main layer of paint), and then go to the sink and wash their hands with soap and water. When drawing with his feet, the child already cannot walk and wash his feet in the sink. A man is gentle with soap and several basins to wash his feet. You can't do this kind of work with a whole kindergarten group. But…
Such drawing can be done as a specially organized individual lesson. Children are divided into groups of 4. One child gives his feet for a print, the second draws eyes, ears, tails, the third child draws grass, the sun, the fourth tree, a bird and so on ... (depending on the theme and plot of the picture).
You can try this option for organizing the entire process. Before going to bed when children are barefoot. Let the child step on a piece of foam soaked in paint. And then immediately onto a sheet of paper. And then immediately not a thick wet soapy terry towel, then into a basin of water ... and sleep in a crib.
That is, you need to buy a sheet of foam rubber(it's cheap in the construction department, sold by the meter). Moisten the foam rubber, dilute the paint slightly with water so that it is well absorbed into the foam rubber (like ink in a print), put a sheet of foam rubber on a plastic tray. Nearby, on the second plastic tray, is a wet soapy towel (for wiping off paint), then there is a bowl of water, and a dry towel. There is a chair next to each tray and basin. Three chairs + three elements (coloring, soap, rinsing, wiping).
It turns out the conveyor- the child sits on the first chair (steps on the foam rubber with paint, hop - raises his leg), move the tray with the foam rubber, put a sheet of paper in its place (hop - printed). The child moves the ass to the second chair, next to which is a tray with a soapy towel (hop-lathered his leg, erased the paint). The child moves the ass to the third chair, next to which is a basin of water, a rag floats in it (hop - wash off the soapy leg, where necessary with three rags). And wipe it off with a dry towel.
Everyone is happy. Except for the sanitary station. It does not allow collective rinsing in the same basin. The sanitary station requires 20 basins for 20 children, and 20 soap towels ... 20 dry towels)))
Unconventional drawing
HATCHING method
And here's another beautiful technique for kindergarten. Where the elements of the picture are created by the hatching method. It turns out an interesting texture of the image. This method is convenient for drawing everything fluffy and hairy.
The technique is well illustrated by an example of such a hare-hare.
The hare's drawing is divided into ROWS-SECTORS, each of which is shaded. We get even rows of hatching.
Here's a life-size template for this craft.
You can modify this craft and present it as an application. Where each element is cut separately (ears, forehead, cheeks, nose, neck). Then each element is shaded. And then everything is assembled into a single whole application.
The ZONE HATCHING method can be used to create any other furry characters. For example, a fluffy ostrich.
That is, the teacher gives the child a sheet of paper - on which the eyes and beak of an ostrich are drawn. The child's task is to draw a fluffy cloud of strokes around the eyes with a pencil or wax crayons. And then under the resulting fluffy ball, draw the neck with rows of strokes too. The teacher can help the children by drawing the circumference of the ball of the head and the line of the future neck, and dividing the neck into sectors for striped multi-colored shading.
You can come up with any character and arrange it in the form of SECTORS for shading - a cat, a parrot, a dog, and so on.
DRAWING in kindergarten
With a cotton swab
(unconventional technique).
All of us in kindergarten drew the craft FLUFFY Dandelion - with the help of cotton swabs. Here is one (photo below). Let's think about what pictures can still be drawn with a cotton swab.
Although, even from a simple Dandelion theme, you can create an unconventional drawing - BRIGHT JUICY, as in the photo below.
It is best for small children to use the PUMPKIN technique with COTTON STICKS, offer to draw only SOME ELEMENTS of the characters - only a fox's tail, just needles for a hedgehog.
That is, a kindergarten teacher combines the work of drawing with a cotton swab with an applique. First, on a sheet of paper, the child divides the applique for the hedgehog's face (made of brown paper) and the hedgehog's back skin (made of white paper). And then this skin-back must be completely covered with multi-colored prints of a cotton swab. A fun children's drawing and gluing activity.
You can use the ZONE FILL technique to draw with a cotton swab. On a sheet of paper, the outline (sealout) of the character is drawn with a pencil - for example, a seahorse. The child must fill this entire area without leaving empty spaces and without crawling out of the pencil border. It is difficult, the child does not always see where it is thick and where it is empty. The teacher needs to repeat all the time, looking for empty holes, filling the holes with different colors of dots, and not with dots of the same color.
Here the brain, and attentiveness, and fine motor skills of the hands, and the sense of color work. After all, you need to feel how you distribute the color over the zone - evenly or at the top everything is yellow, and at the bottom everything is blue.
Such a task can be started in the younger group and then in the older one - and even an adult will wear something to learn from such a training on the sense of color and composition.
You can also make PATTERN CHAINS with a cotton swab. Like the rows of cactus rings below.
You can also draw whole pictures with dots. This unconventional drawing technique can be called DOT-GRAPH.
The most interesting thing is to select points of different shades and place them randomly on the objects of the image.
You can start working on this kind of drawing with small tasks. Pieces of the landscape, elements of architecture.
There is an artist Angelo Franco who paints in the DOT IN DOT technique. Here are large dots, contain smaller ones inside.
With a cotton swab and paints, you can draw beautiful MANDALAS (photo below). Mandalas are circular patterns, symmetrical and multicolored. The homeland of mandalas is the East. There they still lay out patterns of colored stones, colored sand, or flower petals.
For children, we must give ready-made graphic mandala templates with a given pattern. And the task of the child, each TYK with a stick, is to REPEAT point to point in each of the symmetrical zones of the mandala. That is ... if in one zone you made 2 yellow spears on a petal, then in the other zones you need to make 2 yellow spears, on the same petal, in the same place of the petal.
You can find many round mandalas for painting on the Internet. Choose those that are simple and easy to make for children of a particular age.
You can draw point mandalas and on plastic plates... As in the photo below.
You need to start drawing mandalas when the child has already mastered the elementary counting to 5. And he can count the number of PUMPS in each ray or in each row of the mandala (if it is a row-ray mandala, as in the photo below).
Agree, this beautiful and unconventional drawing technique perfectly develops the child's mind, his mathematical abilities, constructive thinking, the ability to plan the result, calculate the drawing.
Drawing WITH WET EFFECT.
(unconventional ways).
Here's another unconventional watercolor painting technique. Here on a sheet of paper we put water-diluted watercolor and blow on it from a tube. We get watery streaks and colorful streams. For such drawing, it is not necessary to use watercolor; the same can be done with gouache diluted with water.
Below we can see how this technique can be used in activities in kindergarten and school. We give the child a drawing of a face (boy or girl) and the child's task is to blow the HAIRSTYLE to these characters.
You can use a plate on which we attach a sheet of paper with a clothespin. Put a large drop of paint on the edge of the sheet and lift this edge of the board up - so that the drop flows down like a slide.
If part of the sheet is temporarily sealed with a piece of masking tape, then we will have an empty, unpainted space on the sheet. And then in this place you can place someone's applique under the umbrella. This is how it is done in the photo below.
In the younger group of the kindergarten, children will love to draw klax monsters. Krakozyabra can be inflated from the tube in any direction. And then, after drying, apply the elements of the application on them.
Now I want to introduce you to one more technique - SOAP + PAINT. Pour ordinary liquid soap or liquid for soap bubbles into glasses - add a little gouache to each glass. We get multi-colored soap paint. We dip a cocktail tube or a round "blower" into it and blow the bubbles directly onto the paper. We get delicate bubbly CLOUDS. They can be designed into an interesting picture.
Bubble clouds can be LUSH PIONEONS (as in the photo below). Bubbly areas can be scalloped on sea waves, like curly lamb skin, etc.
You can simply blow bubbles onto the surface of a sheet of paper with a straw, and then cut a craft applique from this multi-colored sheet. An interesting idea for kindergarten classes.
You can also paint with splashes - just SPLASH multi-colored paint on the paper. A toothbrush works best for this.
Unconventional drawing
WAX-GRAPHIA method.
Here is another technique that can be called CANDLE-GRAPHY, or WAX-GRAPHIA.
Suitable for this technique white candle wax (or paraffin). It can also be a children's wax crayon for painting (but not any). Choose chalk that is thicker to the touch. Check in advance how the crayons work.
Now we will act. Draw a picture on a sheet of white paper with white chalk. Then we take watercolor (not gouache !!!) and start applying watery (not thick !!!) paint over the lines drawn with chalk. That is, we simply paint over our sheet of paper with colored watery paints and an invisible white wax pattern begins to appear. The paint does not cling to the wax and these spots remain white on the paper.
You can draw multicolored round mandalas in this style (with stains of different colors). Drawn autumn leaves look beautiful: leaf contours and wax streaks, and the filling of the sheet is multi-colored (red-yellow-orange).
Night rain looks beautiful over the water. Slanting lines of rain, diverging circles on the water - it's all waxy. And then we paint over with dark blue paint and get a beautiful picture of rain.
You can paint jellyfish and sea creatures with wax. And then apply dark (blue-violet-black) tones and the depths of the sea will come to life.
Children are delighted when you are offered such an activity. The educator or teacher himself draws in advance on each leaf jellyfish, turtles, small tadpoles and amoebas. And then the child must find out who is found in the depths of the seas. He paints a sheet of paper and all these creatures appear under his brush.
An important rule. Before the lesson, teach your children to IRON a sheet of paper with a wet brush, and DO NOT RUB THE SHEET WITH A BRUSH, LIKE A SPOKEN. Otherwise, the wax pattern may be damaged.
NIGHT pictures look beautiful in this technique. With wax we draw one line of the horizon, then waves, a wax lunar track and a disk of the moon on the upper half of the sheet. Now we paint it in the colors of the night and we get the sea, the moon and the white moon path.
WINTER pictures look good too. White lines of a wax pattern as elements of white snow, outlines of snowdrifts, a silhouette of a snowman, snow-covered huts - we paint all this with wax. Then the child applies blue or blue paint and a winter landscape appears on the sheet.
But it is important- before giving these pictures to children, check for yourself whether the wax is of the right quality. Do the lines of the drawing appear? What layer of paint should be applied (how much paint is diluted with water)?
Unconventional drawing
In the PRINT technique.
All kids love this drawing technique. Because it gives quick and beautiful results for every child. Even the most inept artist produces beautiful pictures. Children perceive the whole process as magic, an exciting game with a magical effect of the appearance of a picture
In kindergarten, the most convenient way to organize is the imprint technique. Let's see what materials are suitable for implementing this technique when drawing with children.
OPTION 1 - a wad of crumpled paper.
Crumpled paper gives a nice torn texture to the print. This is suitable for painting the crown of trees in spring (yellow-green or pink) and autumn (orange-crimson). The paint is taken from jars or watercolors, dripped onto a bowl (jar lid). We dip a napkin into this drop, try the print on a draft sheet and, if we like, transfer it to paper.
OPTION 2 - corrugated board.
Wrapping gray cardboard is great for drawing a rose using the imprint technique. Cut the cardboard box into strips across the corrugation line. We twist the strips with a tube, fasten with an elastic band or thread. We make a stamp for a green leaf from a roll of toilet paper.
Also, this ROLL drawing method is suitable for the image of the SPIRAL SNAIL, You can also make the SCROLLS OF THE LAMB'S SKIN.
OPTION 3 - fluffy pom-poms.
You can buy a bag of these soft pom poms from craft stores (or craft sites). If you attach a clothespin to each, you will get a convenient holder for work. In the technique of pompomography, you can create decor for painting flat details of crafts. And also paint pictures of white air dandelions with watercolors.
OPTION 4 - toilet paper roll.
There are a lot of options, because the tube-sleeve can be given different shapes. You can cut the sleeve in half LONG, and we get a half-ring stamp - an ideal stencil for drawing fish scales or tiers of coniferous legs of a Christmas tree.
A round roll can be flattened on both sides and you get a pointed oval - this is the shape of a flower petal, or bunny ears. A great idea for non-traditional drawing in kindergarten with young children (bunny) or older children (flower).
The flower is more complicated than the bunny because you need to RADIALLY arrange the petals around the center of the flower.
You can also cut the EDGE OF THE ROLL into curly petals - and you get ready-made petals for paintings. Such stamps are just a godsend for quickly drawing bouquets and flower beds for children of the younger group. And even for the smallest toddlers in the nursery.
OPTION 5 - bubble wrap.
The bubble wrap also provides an interesting print pattern that can be played around in non-traditional kindergarten painting. For example, make an imprint of a honeycomb (as in the picture below).
Or draw a spring or autumn tree.
OPTION 6 - stamps from potatoes.
Any shape can be cut from the potato halves. Cut the potatoes in half. Wipe the carrot cut of potatoes with a paper napkin. On the cut with a marker, draw the outlines of the future stamp. Cut out with a knife along the drawn contours.
It is better to choose oblong elongated potatoes for stamps. So that the child's hand can comfortably grip the potato. Below in the photo we present only two themes for such an unconventional drawing - owls and tulips. But you can come up with your own options. If you add PVA glue to the paint, you can stick parts (eyes, nose, handles) over the prints.
An experimental double stamp can be made. Cut the halves of the stamps from the two potatoes and fasten the two potatoes together by piercing them through with a toothpick and wrapping them with electrical tape or tape. Fall for a cool idea and experiment with creating stamps for it.
Unconventional drawing
POWDY paints.
And here's another cool material for unconventional drawing that young children love so much. This is BULK COLOR for creating puffy designs. Such paint is made at home quickly and easily - in a bowl we mix PVA glue with gouache and add dad's shaving foam. We make several of these bowls (not necessarily large) for the idea of what we will draw with the children. For a watermelon, you only need two colors - so start with it. Watermelon seeds are a simple black gouache that we drip here and there.
A variety of ideas can be embodied in this drawing technique for children in kindergarten. The simplest is a waffle cone with ice cream. The cone is cut out of a rough packaging cardboard, on it we draw a waffle net with a marker. The child sticks a horn on a sheet of paper (below) and lays out round balls of a three-dimensional pattern on it. You can give the child round templates, which he will first circle with a karandosh over the edge of the horn, and then foam paint will be laid in these round contours.
You can also put a few spoons of different paint on the horn and then use the opposite end of the brush (or a wooden stick) to mix the paint into multi-colored stains. You will get a beautiful mix ice cream. A great craft for children in school or kindergarten in drawing classes.
Methods for working with thick paint in children's lessons.
You can mix the paint on a separate tray (or on a piece of oilcloth). It is better when each child makes his own color mixture - so we give each child their own oilcloth.
We put individual oilcloths for children on each table. We put bowls with 4 colors of paints in the center of the table. A child on his oilcloth mixes these colors into a common puddle - to a state of beautiful stains. Then he applies a paper outline of the character (for example, a seahorse) to the puddle. And then he puts it to dry (the contours of the skates must be signed in advance with the name of the child, and do not forget to remind the children to apply the unsigned side to the paint). Then the next day, when the foam paint dries on the silhouette of the skate, you can continue to work and make an applique for the skate in the sea waters, paint it with thorns, algae around it, glue the shells, pour sand on the glue.
These are some interesting drawing techniques you can try when working with children, both at home and in the garden. At school, this unconventional drawing can be carried out in art lessons, leaving the whole process to the child for independent creativity.
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