What material is useful for unconventional drawing. Types and techniques of non-traditional drawing
The amazing educational and creative benefits of drawing unconventional technology V kindergarten. Original painting classes that are as easy as possible and 100% attractive for children allow you to get results quickly and with enthusiasm. In a matter of minutes, using paints, brushes, wet paper, glue, plasticine, wax crayons, fingers, foam rubber, polystyrene foam, cotton wool, corks, brushes, straws, natural materials and any other objects, you can create real masterpieces.
The benefits of non-traditional drawing techniques for children
Classes in non-traditional fine arts with children attending junior, middle and senior groups of preschool institutions have a positive impact on the personality of each of them. What are the benefits and specific benefits of unusual drawing techniques for growing members of society:
- developing a sense of self-confidence;
- neutralization of various fears that often bother preschoolers due to psychological trauma or increased anxiety;
- development of spatial thinking;
- teaching children to freely express their creative ideas;
- familiarization and interesting work with various natural and available materials;
- development of fine manual motor skills;
- receiving a huge amount of positive emotions and aesthetic pleasure in the classroom;
- encouraging children to search for fresh creative solutions;
- development of perception of colors, volume and texture of a composition;
- expansion of abilities for healthy fantasy and creative imagination.
Ideas for non-traditional drawing techniques for kindergarten
Unconventional finger painting for kids
The paints are in flat containers; you will also need water; Each finger has its own color. With effort and inspiration, you can create beautiful compositions.
Leaf prints
To work on landscapes you will need a set of leaves of different plants. Fill the entire area of the sheet with paint, then press the treated part tightly against the sheet without moving; the necessary details are completed with brushes.
Drawing with a cotton wool stamp
Cotton swabs or other suitable soft objects, the working part is soaked in paint, then the design is applied using the poking method. You can work inside a pre-created contour or outside it.
Painting with a hard brush
An unmoistened hard brush is dipped in paint and a light blow is made on the paper. Using this method, the desired shapes are applied, which result in an unusual prickly or fluffy texture.
Unusual drawing with a cork seal
You can use lids and plugs of different sizes; the working part is first pressed against a stamp pad soaked in paint, then against a sheet. If necessary, the color changes, which means taking another pad and cork.
Custom drawing with prints
You need to make several stamps of any shape from raw potato tubers. The child can only press the seal onto the thick paint in the container, wipe off the excess on the edges, and apply an imprint to the drawing; the composition is also finalized with a brush. Using the same principle, you can make prints without water using polystyrene foam, foam rubber, or a piece of crumpled paper. You can also stamp using a stencil.
Wet drawing
On a piece of paper moistened with water, using brushes or fingers, foggy blurry images are obtained. To draw details, you need to dry the drawing or use thick paint.
Application drawing technique
Any pieces of paper must be intensively crumpled and attached to the sheet with glue. The result is a three-dimensional picture.
Splatter painting
After soaking an old toothbrush with a mixture of PVA + gouache, artistic ink or paint, you need to run a stick over the bristles. By spraying, you can create many beautiful compositions.
Emerging drawings
Before you start drawing with an unconventional technique in kindergarten, a clear bold outline is created on the sheet wax crayons. When the top layer of watercolor is quickly applied, the main composition emerges beautifully, with colors rolling off the lines of the wax.
Drawing with templates
To depict a particular object, several prepared geometric patterns are outlined. To create a harmonious picture, you need to imagine what forms it is represented by.
Original drawing with plasticine
For plasticineography, you will need to lower the plasticine into hot water. On cardboard, where the background and necessary contours have been prepared, a design is created by pressing pieces of plasticine and smearing them with your fingers.
Unusual drawing with blots
The essence of blotography is to drop paint onto paper, bend it in half, and press a little to distribute the paint. By opening the sheet and imagining what the result looks like, you can draw on the necessary elements.
Paint blowing painting
A suitable thin straw is taken, through which the child will have to blow, dispersing the paint in the desired directions. Additional details are drawn with a brush.
Original fantasy drawing
Absolutely any objects are placed on paper and outlined. Then elements are added to these forms so as to obtain new objects that are not similar to the original samples.
Live drawing
The basis is always inanimate objects from the preferred sphere, for example, plants, dishes, food, transport or clothing. The children's task is to bring these drawings to life by adding eyes, noses, arms, legs, mouths and other details inherent in living organisms.
A kindergarten teacher or parents can use their imagination and use their unique drawing methods. Non-standard approach to educational and creative activity always pleases and inspires children.
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MASTER CLASS “NON-TRADITIONAL DRAWING TECHNIQUES”
Completed:
Teacher of the first qualification category
Malyshko Alena Igorevna
Kemerovo 2017
Master class “Unconventional drawing techniques”
Target: expand the knowledge of teachers through familiarity with non-traditional drawing techniques, as a means of developing preschoolers’ interest in visual creativity.
Tasks:
Introduce teachers to unconventional drawing techniques - milk, shaving foam;
Teach practical skills in the field of fine arts using several non-traditional methods in drawing;
Increase the skill level of teachers.
Methods and techniques: reproductive, practical, verbal, visual.
Equipment: didactic means - drawings made using non-traditional drawing techniques; tables, chairs for teachers; material for practical activities - gouache, jars of water, brushes, landscape sheets of paper, shaving foam, PVA glue, transparent plates, toothpicks, wet wipes for each teacher; audio means - presentation “Non-traditional drawing techniques”, CD player, projector, laptop, flash drive.
Preliminary work: studying Internet resources on this topic, preparing equipment.
Progress of the master class:
Relevance of the chosen master class topic:
Problems are solved in drawing classes comprehensive development children, which is necessary for successful learning at school.
In the process of work, children develop mental operations, teamwork skills, and the ability to coordinate their actions with the actions of their peers.
From a very early age, children try to reflect their impressions of the world around them in their visual arts. Observations of the effectiveness of drawing in kindergarten lead to the conclusion about the need to use unconventional techniques, which will create a situation of success for students and form a stable motivation for drawing.
Drawing in unconventional ways is a fun, mesmerizing activity that surprises and delights children. There are many non-traditional drawing techniques; their unusualness lies in the fact that they allow children to quickly achieve the desired result. For example, what child would not be interested in drawing with his fingers, making a drawing with his own palm, putting blots on paper and getting a funny drawing. The child loves to quickly achieve results in his work.
The developing environment plays an important role in the development of a child. Therefore, when organizing a subject-development environment, it is necessary to take into account that the content is developmental in nature and is aimed at developing the creativity of each child in accordance with his individual capabilities, accessible and appropriate to the age characteristics of children. At home, each of us has unnecessary things (toothbrush, combs, foam rubber, corks, polystyrene foam, spool of thread, candles, etc.). Walking along the street or in the forest you can find a lot of interesting things: sticks, cones, leaves, pebbles, plant seeds, dandelion fluff, thistle, poplar. With all these items it is possible to enrich a corner of productive activity. Unusual materials and original techniques They attract children because you can draw with whatever you want and how you want, and you can even come up with your own unusual technique. Children feel unforgettable, positive emotions, and by emotions one can judge the child’s mood, what makes him happy, what makes him sad.
Using non-traditional techniques:
Helps relieve children's fears.
Develops self-confidence.
Develops spatial thinking.
Teaches children to freely express their ideas.
Encourages children to creative searches and solutions.
Teaches children to work with a variety of materials.
Develops a sense of color perception, a sense of texture and volume.
Develops fine motor skills of the hands.
Develops creativity, imagination and flight of fancy.
While working, children receive aesthetic pleasure.
Let me tell you a little about them.
With younger children preschool age recommended to use:
Finger painting;
Imprint with stamps made of potatoes, carrots, polystyrene foam;
Drawing with palms.
drawing on a wet sheet of paper
Children of middle preschool age can be introduced to more complex techniques:
Poking with a hard, semi-dry brush.
Foam rubber printing;
Printing with corks;
Wax crayons + gouache
Candle + watercolor;
Leaf prints;
Palm drawings;
Drawing with cotton swabs;
Magic ropes;
Subject monotype.
At older preschool age, children can master even more difficult methods and techniques:
Drawing with salt, sand, semolina;
Drawing with soap bubbles;
Drawing with crumpled paper;
Blotography with a tube;
Landscape monotype;
Screen printing;
Blotography is ordinary;
Plasticineography
Scratch.
Drawing using unconventional techniques fascinates and captivates children. This is a free creative process, when the word “forbidden” is not present, but there is an opportunity to violate the rules for using certain materials and tools. Humanity does not stand still, we are constantly developing and inventing something new. Likewise, in the field of art, many new unconventional techniques have appeared, which today I want to tell you about.
1.Drawing with cling film.
Did you know that film can also draw? It is enough to lay it on wet watercolor and move it around. The result is ice crystals or other kinds of abstractions.
2. Drawing on foil.
Drawing on foil is very different from paper. Firstly, you can clearly see how the colors mix, and secondly, the paint glides well. Suitable for developing sensory sensations in babies. You can draw with your fingers, brushes, or cotton swabs.
3. Drawing with toothpicks on PVA glue.
Pour PVA glue onto the paper and draw marks on it with toothpicks or cotton swabs. If you use a transparent plastic lid, for example, from a sour cream container, as a base, then after the design has dried, you can cut out, for example, a heart from it and hang it on a tree on a string.
4. Drawing on milk.
For bold creative experiments you will need very simple and safe ingredients:
- whole milk, it is important that it is not skimmed, it is better if it is homemade;
- food coloring diluted in water;
- a flat plate or shallow tray;
- liquid soap or dishwashing detergent.
To begin with, pour a little milk into a plate and give the child jars of paints, from which he must randomly add several drops of paints of different colors onto the milk. The resulting drawing will already be very interesting. But that is not all. You need to drop a little liquid soap or dishwashing detergent into our container. And then just watch the wonderful transformation and movement happening in the plate. Each drop, falling on the surface, starts a fantastic dance of flowers. The child will absolutely love the process itself and its unexpected results. Watching amazing transformations is very interesting and very instructive. In addition, this amazing series of transformations can be photographed and, by printing interesting abstract photographs, you can decorate the interior with the results of joint creativity with children. There can be a lot of photographs, because the movement and transformation in the plate will continue for a long time. Having carried out such an interesting experiment, next time you can invite the child to participate in the process himself and try to form a drawing. For this, the preparatory stage will be the same, but we do not pour dishwashing liquid into milk, but dip ordinary cotton swabs into it and give it to the child. When he puts them in milk, the transformation process will begin, and the baby will be able to participate in creating patterns.
I offer you another unconventional type of technique - drawing on kefir, this type of technique is called EBRU. Pour kefir into a plate. Add a few drops of paint to the kefir. Dip two cotton swabs in liquid soap and immerse them in a plate with kefir. We watch how the colors begin to create beautiful patterns. You can also get a print on a sheet of paper; to do this, you need to take a sheet of paper, place it on the milky drawing and then pull it out to dry.
5. Glue to create a 3D effect.
Very interesting drawings of a different kind are obtained with PVA glue. It or hot glue can be used to give the drawing volume and relief.
6. Salt drawing.
Apply the design with PVA glue, sprinkle with salt and let dry. Then, using a brush, we pick up paint and drip it onto the salt base. The paint spreads itself and mixes beautifully.
7. Drawing with shaving foam.
Drawing with shaving foam is a fun and interesting process. The foam is pleasant to the touch, gives new tactile sensations and a pleasant smell. Easily washes off hands, clothes and any surface.
Creativity using such an unconventional drawing technique creates positive motivation for drawing, relaxes, awakens imagination and gives a lot of positive emotions!
"Volume" paints
You will need: 2 parts shaving foam + 1 part PVA glue + paint.
First you need to mix glue and paint, then add shaving foam. Mix everything thoroughly. The paints are ready, you can apply them to the finished outline or/and show your imagination and come up with a design yourself.
Joint drawing with teachers with shaving foam using the “Volume” paint technique on a free theme.
Place “volumetric” paints in a thick food bag (or tube). Cut off the tip of the bag with scissors, you get a kind of pastry syringe. By pressing on the paint bag, we create a pattern.
To prepare the modeling mass we will need:
400 grams of starch + 100-200 grams of foam + paint
Mix everything well with your hands until you get lumps (the material looks like grains of cottage cheese or wet sand). After playing, do not throw away the modeling mass, but pour it into a regular bag or make a toy to develop fine motor skills.
To create a toy you will need modeling mass, a balloon, a funnel, and a stick for pushing the sticky mass.
8. Pointillism for children.
One of the most interesting and unusual areas of painting. This is a manner of painting pictures using separate strokes of a regular, dotted or rectangular shape. Artists, applying pure paints to canvas, counted on the optical mixing of colors in the viewer's eye, and they succeeded. For children, this technique is difficult, and therefore I bring to your attention unconventional pointillism for children.
The name of the movement in painting, pointillism, comes from the French word pointiller, which means “to write with dots.” Artists who worked in the pointillism style applied pure paints to the canvas, not previously mixed on the palette. Optical mixing of colors occurred already at the stage of perception of the picture by the viewer.
Optical mixing of three pure primary colors and several pairs of additional colors makes it possible to obtain sufficiently greater brightness than by mechanically mixing pigments.
I suggest you master the “pointillism” technique using materials that are not entirely traditional for it - colored markers (felt-tip pens). Preschool children love to experiment with visual materials. The proposed method of depicting dots using felt-tip pens allows not only to develop fine motor skills of preschoolers, their perseverance, color perception, but also to increase the emotional background, since the image using felt-tip pens (color markers) does not require drying, there will be no spreading of paints or inaccurate mixing.
10. Grisaille (French Grisaille from gris - gray)- a type of monochromatic (monochrome) painting performed in different tones of the same color. That is, all the work is done exclusively with paint of one or two colors, but of different tones (somewhere paler, somewhere darker, brighter).
11. Frottage
Technique of drawing a picture on paper, fabric. To create a pattern, a relief surface is used, which is located with reverse side paper (fabric), this relief surface is displayed on the front side of the paper (fabric) by friction of a coloring material (for example, a pencil).
One of the most popular objects are tree leaves.
Both fresh and dry leaves are suitable for work. You need to decide on the shape and size of the leaves and assemble the composition. Very often in craftsmanship many surfaces of one specimen are used.
Dense material is not suitable for frottage. It is better to work with writing paper, use pencils of varying softness or wax crayons, pastels. However, this does not mean that the more tender the better. At all soft pencil, covers rather than shows the relief. You can try to stroke in different directions - the effects may differ significantly. Rubbing is done with caution: you should hold the paper sheet without moving the silhouette underneath it. The second option: so that the leaves do not move, they can be glued to paper (on the back side of the picture, and then drawn with crayons of different colors. The tones with which the plane is shaded to obtain an artistic result complement and cover each other.
12. Zentangle and doodling.
Combination (zendoodle) - drawing techniques, in Lately gaining great popularity. Interest in them is due to the fact that they are in a good way relax, have fun, show your creativity, even if you absolutely do not know how to draw in the classical sense of the word.
These techniques are great for both adults and very young children who are just learning to hold drawing utensils.
DOODLING (from the English doodle - unconscious drawing) is drawing using simple elements (circles, squiggles, diamonds, dots, sticks, etc.). This is what ease is all about. However, these simple elements can create complex compositions that amaze the imagination. But basically this is an unconscious drawing that allows you to “turn off your brain,” which opens the way to pure creativity, not constrained by rules. Many of us indulged in this kind of drawing during boring school lessons. We don’t know and don’t think about what will happen in the end; the hand draws on its own. Will it be various plants, non-existent worlds, or just geometric figures- doesn't matter. The main thing is to enjoy the drawing process
ZENTANGLE (from zen - poise, calmness and rectangle - rectangle) is a combination of meditation and drawing. Traditionally, squares of 9x9 cm are used to draw zentangle. Any design is placed in the square, or it is arbitrarily divided into segments, which, in turn, are filled with various elements of the same type (dots, circles, diamonds, whatever your imagination allows). Zentangle helps increase composure, concentration, promotes psychological relaxation, internal calm, improves visual coordination and fine motor skills, and also develops creativity and creativity. A mixture of these two techniques - Zendoodling - is ideal for classes with children. The easiest option is to use a coloring page or outline of an animal, flower, bird (anything drawn on a stencil, and invite the child to fill it out simple elements, and then color them. You can complicate the task - break the drawing into parts and fill the resulting segments with different patterns. Another option is to offer the child differently fill in identical images of animals, objects, etc.
13. “Imprint” We will draw dandelions, but we will not draw in the usual way. This method is called "Fingerprint". You need to take a leaf from a flower and apply paint on it Green colour, then take this piece of paper, turn it over and print it onto a clean sheet of paper.
Then we take the flower itself, apply only yellow paint on it and also make prints with flowers or crumple a paper napkin into a ball, dip it in yellow paint and put a print on the paper.
14. “Drawing with soap bubbles” Place a spoonful of gouache in a glass and pour in liquid soap mixed with water. We take a cocktail straw and start foaming the solution so that the bubbles rise in the glass. When the foam has risen, take thick paper and lean it against the soap foam. This way, you can go through all the colors with one sheet of paper. For creativity, it is better to take thick paper. The resulting prints can be completed and made into a painting,
15. Drawing with a fork “Hedgehog on the forest edge” Let's get to work. The sheet of paper should be positioned horizontally. In the center of the sheet with a brush and brown paint draw an oval without waiting for it to dry, lengthen it on one side, highlighting the nose. Next we will need a fork and green gouache, we draw the grass while our hedgehog dries. We completely dip the fork into the paint and use the application technique to leave imprints. It is also possible for the prints to extend onto the hedgehog, this will give an idea of the versatility (hedgehog in the grass). We wash the fork thoroughly; then we will need red and yellow gouache in our work. Using the same technique with a fork and paint, we plant flowers on some blades of grass. Now you need to make needles for the hedgehog. Repeating the same steps, only using black gouache, we draw needles for the hedgehog. We are moving on to the final stage of our work. We finish painting our hedgehog’s eye and nose using a brush and black gouache.
Conclusion
Children really like unconventional ways of drawing. This promotes the development of creative thinking, imagination, creativity, expanding ideas about the world around us and, like regular drawing, develops fine motor skills of the hand, trains the muscles of the hand, and prepares the hand for writing.
Non-traditional classes
Lots of ideas included.
Sometimes provocative
But interesting for children.
They combine in an unusual way
Material and tool.
And everything works out great
And there are definitely no indifferent people!
Result: Dear Colleagues! Our master class has come to an end. I see wonderful works using unusual techniques. And now I invite everyone to take a photo together as a souvenir of today’s meeting.
Thanks everyone for your attention!
The standard idea of drawing 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 unusual and exciting, one that will evoke positive emotions not only in children, but also in adults.
Unusual drawing techniques for children using non-standard means and materials is a great opportunity to show your imagination and create spectacular, memorable crafts.
Draw with your 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. A child's hand provides ample opportunities for creating plots, here are the two simplest ones.
Butterfly
Take a sheet of paper and lay it horizontally. Fold it in half, secure the fold line well, then straighten the sheet. Put a little gouache on a brush (let the child choose the colors themselves) and paint the baby’s palm. If a child holds a 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 fingertips and palm in different colors, this will make the drawing more vibrant.
The young artist places his painted palm on a sheet of paper. The base of the palm should be at the fold line of the sheet. Since a butterfly’s wing consists of two parts, the child places his palm once, with his fingers slightly turned downward in the design, and the second time, on the contrary, with his palm turned with his fingers up.
Then attach the second half of the sheet to the resulting handprint - and you will get a wonderful butterfly. For authenticity, you can draw the body and head of the butterfly by hand or cut them out of colored paper and glue them with glue.
Tree
An excellent option for depicting a tree using the same hand, however, now you will need not only the palm, but also the 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 vertical sheet of paper. It turns out to be a tree trunk that just needs to be painted with foliage. Options are also possible here: you can draw it yourself, or you can glue real leaves collected in autumn forest.
Pictures in stamps
A creative solution that will make any drawing unexpected and eye-catching is to draw its elements with stamps.
What is a stamp? This is a piece of base on which the desired design is cut out or secured with improvised means.
Anything can be used as materials for making stamps:
- raw potato tubers;
- small apples cut in half;
- plasticine;
- Lego construction elements;
- lids from small jars;
- matchboxes and threads.
A universal and inexpensive material for making impressions that everyone can find.
- Select small tubers, wash and peel them.
- Cut the tuber in half. On the resulting surface of the stamp, draw the imprint you want to get, for example, it will be a leaf of a tree.
- Use a knife to make cuts that imitate the structure of the leaf. Then dip the finished stamp in paint and make an impression on a previously prepared piece of paper.
- To create a finished composition, you can make the necessary blank, for example, an image of a tree branch, the leaves on which can be drawn with the resulting stamp.
Attention: potatoes absorb paint quickly and well, so to obtain prints of different colors, each time you need to use a new stamp (potato tuber).
Stamps on plasticine
One of the kids' favorite ways to create their own stamps. To do this you will need: a piece of thick plasticine and a ballpoint pen (for small parts). For larger details that need to be extruded into the print, it is better to use a pencil with a thick lead.
Making an impression:
- We roll a sausage 2-3 cm long from plasticine. Make the bottom of the sausage smooth and even.
- We take a ballpoint pen and, pressing deeply inward, place 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 impressions, forming petals around the core of the flower.
- We fill the resulting recesses of the stamp with paint, it is better if they are acrylic paints or gouache. The watercolor will bleed, producing desaturated colors.
- We print on paper. The composition can be diversified by making several stamps with different designs.
Apple cards
For this “delicious” 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 be saturated, do not thin the paints too much. Having dipped the cut side of the apple into the paint, invite your child to make several prints on pieces of colored cardboard.
Don’t let parents be scared by the fact that when children see bright and appetizing prints, they will have a desire to put them on cardboard in incredible quantities. 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, stick it on a large piece of cardboard in a contrasting color. The tails of the apples can be painted separately. This makes a wonderful picture for the kitchen!
Thread stamps
This type of creativity attracts children with funny geometric patterns formed as a result of the use of ordinary threads.
The basic materials for this unusual technique are simple and affordable - these are boxes of matches (you only need boxes, no matches), thick threads of wool 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 it around a matchbox. The thread should not be too thin and should fit tightly around the box. We dip the resulting stamp in paint and get a spectacular print with a geometric pattern.
Unusual drawing and natural materials
The most interesting drawing techniques for children are related to natural materials various textures: wood, stone, plant seeds, and, of course, tree foliage.
When we collect leaves in the autumn forest with our children, we sometimes do not suspect what scope for flights of fancy and unusual designs lies in an ordinary dried oak or maple leaf.
Autumn Foliage Drawings
For these works you need any leaves: large and small, elongated and round, green, yellow, with or without cuttings. While walking in the forest, focus children's attention on the variety of shapes and colors of autumn leaves.
Leaf prints
Option one
We take a sheet of not very thick white paper and place it on the table in front of the children. It is better to secure 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 “stamp” each sheet in turn, sketching it with colored wax crayon.
Second option
We “print” with leaves by first applying paint to them. This drawing method looks like this.
Take several large sheets and invite the children to work as autumn wizards. Let them paint one side of each sheet with their own colors - the way they like, in any order. Then have them place the colored side of the leaves on a white piece of paper. You will get bright, juicy prints.
This type of work will allow you to create interesting and bright collages on an autumn theme!
Making your own colored paper
Few people know that it is enough to simply create a spectacular... 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 the pattern of a marble stone.
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 rich 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 with foam in a random order.
The next part is the most favorite among children of any age. Taking a cotton swab (you can remove it with a cotton tip) or a toothpick, the child should dilute the colored drops in the foam. As a result, completely bizarre shapes are formed - blots, dots, stains and incredible color combinations.
Then you need to take a sheet of paper and place it flat on the multi-colored foam formed in the plate. Turn the sheet over and place it on the 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 bright and cheerful colors can be used when it dries.
All of the listed variety of works, performed by children and adults using unusual drawing techniques, are ideal for homemade arts lessons, creating drawings using collage techniques and designing family albums using scrapbooking techniques.
Teacher, child development center specialist
Druzhinina Elena
Hi all! We continue to provide interesting ideas for educators, parents and teachers. And today we will talk about unconventional drawing techniques. These ideas are suitable for kindergarten and school. Unconventional drawing does not mean something complicated. On the contrary, it is the unconventional technique that turns art classes into simple and fun fun. There is no need to draw complex elements, no need to masterly use a brush. Non-traditional techniques were CREATED because they SIMPLIFY the child’s work and 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 made using 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 divided all the techniques of non-traditional drawing into SEPARATE GROUPS - and I will explain and show everything in order.
Unconventional drawing
PALM PRINTS
In kindergarten, during art classes, it is important to choose work that will be feasible for younger children. In the second younger group, children have poor brush control, it is difficult for them to force the brush to draw a line, an oval, a circle... Therefore, at this age, quick and beautiful drawings using the palm painting technique are interesting.
With your children's hands you can draw such a cute family of a hen and chicks.
Green paint will give you a print that can be made into a frog. The eyes can be drawn separately on white circles of paper (by the teacher themselves) and the children will simply glue the eyes onto the drawing with PVA glue.
Here is another example of an appliqué drawing using this non-traditional do-it-yourself painting technique. If we add the 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, we add a long branch on which this owl is sitting.
The palm acts as a template - first sketch, trace the palm on a piece of paper, and then try to draw an eye here or there. And look closely and see which character is looking at you.
Same for crafts using the non-traditional technique “Palm + paint” you need to prepare the background in advance. Or use colored paper to create a green lawn and a pond for ducks. Or draw in advance - tint the sheet blue and green paint, dry and prepare for class (hold under heavy pressure from books).
As you can see in the photo below, you can add overlay parts to the palm element of the design - appliqués made of paper and other materials. Below is an example of how ordinary gray paper from a box can become a prototype for a craft. To small child it was more convenient to draw circle-face of a lion- give him a jar lid template. Let the children trace the round lid along the center of the “cardboard mane” with a pencil and then carefully fill in the circle with paint – first tracing with a slow brush along the edge of the line, and then painting in the middle. We complete the black details of the mustache, nose and ears with a marker (the teacher himself once the craft is dry).
In non-traditional palm painting, images of birds are often used. Here's a simple idea for drawing a sparrow in kindergarten. It's easy and quick to draw with your own hands for children in the middle group.
But here are ideas for non-traditional hand drawing for children of average and senior group. Craft MONKEY. Here you need to position your palm correctly - so that your fingers are turned towards the vine on which the monkey will hang. Then paint with a brush beautiful curl tail And then lay out the head from the paper appliqué.
And here is a class on non-traditional drawing for the older group - here you need to first draw a tree (trunk, branches, leaves). The leaves are just marks from a brush (press the brush sideways. Raise it sharply up so that the mark does not smudge). While the children are busy drawing the leaves, the trunk will dry out well and the imprint of the koala bear will be perfectly placed on it, as if against a dry background. A beautiful craft for both kindergarten and school (grades 1-4).
And here is a beautiful bright craft-drawing of a GIRAFFE. Here we also see a base made from a palm print. But a long neck element with a head is added to the picture. Before applying spots and strokes of the mane, you need to wait until the red base has completely dried. The mane is placed with the imprint of a brush - we place the brush on the side and sharply lift it up, the impression is obtained as a tuft of mane hairs - we create a lot of imprints along the entire cervical ridge of the giraffe. .Round spots are easier to draw with a cotton swab (with a brush, the circles will not be even - not all children know how to draw a circle with a brush - this is a complex technique that they will master after they learn to write letters).
For the older group of kindergarten, a hand drawing in the form of a rainbow magical unicorn is suitable. Great craft for girls. The teacher will draw the horn.
And boys will love the drawing in the form of a dragon - also in this technique.
Also, young children really love group crafts. Where the entire kindergarten group participates in one common artistic work. For example, on a large sheet of paper, draw the outlines of the future body of a peacock - and around it line up the imprints of the feathers of its magnificent tail. And then, when the tail is dry, you can glue the body itself along the center.
Drawing WITH FORKS.
non-traditional technology in kindergarten.
Disposable plastic forks are a tool that can create an interesting non-traditional drawing technique for you. All drawings where needed characteristic shaggy stroke, even a small child will be able to draw quickly and easily.
Here is a sample of such work for children in kindergarten. The teacher draws a tree stump on a piece of paper. It comes from the hemp the upward line is the AXIS of the future tree. Using a fork, scoop up the thick paint and apply prints from the side of the axle downwards. First we process the right side of the axis, then the left side of the central rod of the tree.
And already the third stage - we put another layer of CENTRAL STROKES on top of these strokes - this time more vertically down from the center, slightly diverging to the sides.
For comfort Pour the paint into bowls - jar lids work great.
AND to reduce paint consumption , 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 a hardware store and buy a liter (or half-liter) bucket of PVA glue. It will be called universal PVA, or construction PVA - don’t let this confuse you. The chemical composition is exactly the same as school PVA glue. But the price is 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 PINKY elements of the picture - for example, a HEDGEHOG or a CACTUS.
A fork will also help you draw shaggy characters. For example, a yellow fluffy CHICKEN, or a kitten, or a bear cub.
Since the paint already contains PVA glue, you can glue any paper parts (beak, eyes, ears, tails, etc.) onto the wet paint that has not yet dried.
Also, the fork stroke is similar to the plumage of birds. Therefore, you can make a drawing of any bird using this technique. This is how it happens, you can see in the photo of the craft below - COCK..
TRAINING METHODOLOGY – classical.
On two drawing samples.
What is the best way to TEACH DRAWING in kindergarten. Here is a technique that has been working great in kindergarten for several years. This technique allows you to get the CORRECT one the first time children's drawing. Let's look at it using the example of the same COCK from the picture above.
STAGE 1
We seat the children on a chair (in 2 rows) in front of one table. The teacher will do a demonstration on it. The piece of paper already has the outline of a rooster drawn in pencil. Three bowls contain different colors – yellow, red, blue. Each color has its own fork.
In front of the children, we begin our work - we draw feathers with a fork, freely mixing paints. We show you what is wrong and what is right. Let the children see from your example that it is better to draw lines ALONG the neck, and ALONG the lines of the tail, and not across.
STAGE 2
We painted feathers for 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 we do?” Children give you hints, you “mess up”, children correct you, tell you how to do it - you correct yourself and continue to make mistakes, then correct yourself. Now children are already acting 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, with knowledge of the matter, each perform their own craft.
As you can see, the demonstration method always works better on 2-X training drawings with the teacher’s hand.
- The first drawing, where the teacher does everything himself (teaching and explaining to the children)
- The teacher performs the second drawing according to the children’s prompts (“making mistakes” and correcting them).
- Each child already makes the third drawing himself, at his desk, with a smart, scholarly look.
Unconventional DRAWING
FEET PRINTS
The print of a child's foot, like a palm, can be turned into an interesting drawing. A variety of characters can be hidden in a child's footprint.
These are the kinds of paintings that can be created using an unconventional drawing technique from an ordinary print of a child’s foot.
I’ll say right away that in the realities of a kindergarten (where there are 30 children in a group) This kind of drawing with feet 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. When drawing with feet, the child cannot go and wash his feet in the washbasin. A gentle man 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 people. One child gives his feet for a print, the second draws eyes, ears, tails, the third child draws grass, the sun, the fourth a 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 bedtime, when children are barefoot. Let the child step on a piece of foam rubber soaked in paint. And then straight onto a sheet of paper. And then immediately a thin, wet, soapy terry towel, then into a basin with some water... and go to bed.
That is, you need to buy a sheet of foam rubber(it’s cheap in the construction department, sold cut into meters). Wet the foam rubber, dilute the paint slightly with water so that it is well absorbed into the foam rubber (like ink in printing), place a sheet of foam rubber on a plastic tray. Nearby, on a second plastic tray, there is a wet, soapy towel (for wiping off paint), then there is a basin 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 to be a 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 – stamped). The child moves his butt to the second chair, next to which there is a tray with a soapy towel (hop-up, soaped his leg, wiped off the paint). The child moves his butt to the third chair, next to which there is a basin of water with a rag floating in it (hop, wash off the soapy leg where you need it with a rag). And wipe with a dry towel.
Everyone is happy. Except for the sanitation station. It does not allow collective rinsing in one basin. The sanitation station requires for 20 children - 20 basins, and 20 soap towels... 20 dry towels)))
Unconventional drawing
HATCHING method
And here’s another beautiful piece of equipment for kindergarten. Where the elements of the drawing are created using the shading method. This results in an interesting image texture. This method is convenient for drawing everything fluffy and shaggy.
The technique is well illustrated by the example of this HARE craft.
The hare drawing is divided into ROW-SECTORS, each of which is shaded. We get even rows of shading.
Here is a life-size template for this craft.
You can modify this craft and present it as an applique. Where each element is cut out 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 piece 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 in rows of strokes. The teacher can help the children by drawing the circle of the ball of the head and the lines of the future neck, and dividing the neck into sectors for striped multi-colored shading.
You can come up with any character and design it in the form of SECTORS with shading - a cat, a parrot, a dog, and so on.
DRAWING in kindergarten
WITH A COTTON SWIP
(non-traditional technique).
In kindergarten, we all drew the FLUFFY DANDELION craft using cotton swabs. Here it is (photo below). Let's think about what other pictures can be drawn using a cotton swab.
Although even from a simple DANDELION theme you can create unconventional drawing– BRIGHT JUICY, as in the photo below.
It is best for young children to draw only SOME ELEMENTS of the characters using the technique of POKING WITH COTTON SWIPS - only the tail of a fox, the tip of a needle for a hedgehog.
That is, a kindergarten teacher combines the work of drawing watnyo with a stick with appliqué. First, on a piece of paper, the child makes an applique of the hedgehog’s face (from brown paper) and the skin of the hedgehog’s back (from white paper). And then this back skin needs to be completely covered with multi-colored cotton swab prints. A fun children's drawing and sticking activity.
You can use drawing with a cotton swab using the ZONE FILLING technique. On a sheet of paper, draw the outline (silhouette) of a character in pencil - for example, a seahorse. The child must fill this entire area without leaving empty spaces or going beyond the pencil border. This is difficult, the child does not always see where he is thick and where he is empty. The teacher needs to repeat all the time: look for empty holes, fill the holes with different colored dots, and not dots of the same color.
The brain, attentiveness, fine motor skills, and a sense of color work here. After all, you need to feel how you distribute the color across the zone - evenly or everything is yellow at the top, and everything is blue at the bottom.
Such a task can be started in the younger group and then in the older group - and even an adult can learn something in such training on the sense of color and composition.
You can also use a cotton swab to make CHAIN PATTERNS. Like the rows of rings on the cacti below.
You can also draw entire pictures with dots. This non-traditional drawing technique can be called DOT GRAPHY.
The most interesting thing is to select dots of different shades and place them differently on the objects in the image.
You can start working on this type of drawing with small tasks. Pieces of landscape, elements of architecture.
There is an artist Angelo Franco who paints paintings using the POINT TO POINT technique. Here are large points, contain smaller ones inside.
With a cotton swab and paints you can draw beautiful MANDALA (photo below). Mandalas are circular patterns, symmetrical and multi-colored. The homeland of mandalas is the East. They still lay out patterns of colored pebbles, colored sand, or flower petals.
For children, we must provide ready-made graphic templates-mandalas, with a given pattern. And the child’s task is to REPEAT EXACTLY every POCK with a stick in each of the symmetrical zones of the mandala. That is... if in one zone you made 2 yellow pokes on a petal, then in the other zones you need to make 2 yellow pokes, on the same petal, in the same place on the petal.
You can find many round mandalas for painting on the Internet. Choose those that are simple and easy to do for children of a given age.
You can draw dotted mandalas on plastic plates. As in the photo below.
You need to start drawing mandalas when the child has already mastered basic counting to 5. And can count the number of PUMPKINS 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 a child’s mind, his mathematical abilities, constructive thinking, the ability to plan the result, and calculate the drawing.
Drawing WITH A WET EFFECT.
(non-traditional methods).
Here's another unconventional one watercolor technique drawing. Here we put watercolor diluted with water on a sheet of paper and blow on it from a tube. We get watery spots 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 see how this technique can be used in art classes in kindergarten and school. We give the child a drawing of a face (boy or girl) and the child’s task is to blow out the HAIR for these characters.
You can use a board on which you attach a sheet of paper with a clothespin. We place 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 we temporarily seal part of the sheet 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 an applique of someone under an umbrella. Here's how it's done in the photo below.
In the younger group of kindergarten, children will really enjoy drawing Klaks monsters. Krakozyabra can be inflated from a tube in any direction. And then, after drying, glue applique elements onto them.
Now I want to introduce you to another technique - SOAP + PAINT. Pour regular liquid soap into cups, or liquid for soap bubbles— add a little gouache to each glass. We get multi-colored soap paint. Dip a cocktail tube or a round “blower” into it and blow bubbles directly onto the paper. We get gentle bubble CLOUDS. They can be decorated into an interesting picture.
The bubbly clouds can be LUXURIOUS PEONIES (like the photo below). Blistered areas can be scallops on sea waves, like curly sheep skin, etc.
You can simply blow bubbles onto the surface of a sheet of paper with a straw, and then cut out a craft applique from this multi-colored sheet. Interesting idea for classes in kindergarten.
You can also paint with splashes - just SPLASH colorful paint onto the paper. A toothbrush is best for this.
Unconventional drawing
WAX-GRAPHY method.
Here is another technique that can be called CANDLE GRAPHY, or WAX GRAPHY.
Suitable for this technique white wax (or paraffin) candle. It can also be a children's wax crayon for drawing (but not just any kind). Choose chalk that has a greasy feel. Check in advance how the crayons work.
Now let's act. Draw a picture on a sheet of white paper with white chalk. Then we take watercolor (not gouache!!!) and begin to apply watery (not thick!!!) paint over the chalk lines. That is, we simply paint over our sheet of paper with colored watery paints and the invisible white wax pattern begins to appear. The paint does not cling to the wax and these places on the paper remain white.
You can draw multi-colored round mandalas in this style (with streaks of different colors). Looks beautiful painted autumn leaves: leaf contours and veins are waxy, and the filling of the sheet is multi-colored (red-yellow-orange).
The night rain over the water looks beautiful. Slanting lines of rain, diverging circles on the water - it's all wax. And then we paint it with dark blue paint and get a beautiful picture of rain.
You can use wax to draw jellyfish and sea creatures. And then apply dark (blue-violet-black) tones and depths of the sea will come to life.
Children are delighted when you offer them such an activity. The educator or teacher himself draws jellyfish, turtles, small tadpoles and amoebas on each sheet in advance. And then the child must find out who lives in the depths of the seas. He paints a sheet of paper and all these creatures appear under his brush.
Important rule. Before class, teach the children to ROSE a sheet of paper with a wet brush, and NOT TO RUBB THE SHEET WITH A BRUSH, LIKE A WASTE SPASH. Otherwise, the wax pattern may be damaged.
NIGHT pictures look beautiful using this technique. Using wax we draw one horizon line, then waves, a wax lunar path and the disk of the moon on the upper half of the sheet. Now we paint it in the colors of the night and get the sea, the moon and the white lunar path.
WINTER pictures also look good. The white lines of the wax drawing are like elements of white snow, the outlines of snowdrifts, the silhouette of a snowman, snow-covered huts - we draw all this with wax. Then the child applies blue or light blue paint and a winter landscape appears on the sheet.
But it's important– before giving these pictures to children, check for yourself whether the wax is of suitable quality. Are the lines of the design showing? What layer of paint should I apply (what is the degree of paint dilution with water)?
Unconventional drawing
Using the PRINT technique.
All children love this drawing technique. Because it gives quick and beautiful results for every child. Even the most inept artist can produce beautiful paintings. Children perceive the whole process as magic, exciting game with the magical effect of a picture appearing
In kindergarten, it is most convenient to organize the imprint technique. Let's see what materials are suitable for implementing this technique when drawing with children.
OPTION 1 – a lump of crumpled paper.
Crumpled paper gives a beautiful torn texture to the print. This is suitable for drawing the crowns of spring (yellow-green or pink) and autumn (orange-purple) trees. Paint is taken from jars or watercolors and dripped onto a bowl (lid from a jar). Dip a napkin into this drop, try the imprint on a rough sheet and, if you like, transfer it to paper.
OPTION 2 – corrugated cardboard.
Packaging gray cardboard is great for drawing a rose using the imprint technique. We cut the cardboard box into strips across the corrugation line. We twist the strips into a tube and secure with an elastic band or thread. We make a stamp for a green leaf from a toilet paper roll.
Also, this method of ROLL Drawing is suitable for depicting a SNAIL SPIRL. You can also make LAMB SKIN CURL.
OPTION 3 – fluffy pom-poms.
In craft stores (or on craft websites) you can buy a bag of these soft pompoms. If you attach a clothespin to each, you will get a convenient holder for work. Using the pomponography technique, you can create decor for painting flat parts of crafts. And also paint pictures of white airy dandelions in watercolors.
OPTION 4 – toilet paper roll.
There are a lot of options here, because the tube-sleeve can be given different shapes. You can cut the sleeve in half Lengthwise, and we will 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 will 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 younger children (bunny) or older children (flower).
The flower is more difficult than the bunny because you need to RADIALLY arrange the petals around the middle of the flower.
You can also cut the EDGE OF THE ROLL into curly petals - and you will get ready-made petals for paintings. Such stamps are just a godsend for quickly drawing bouquets and flower beds for children junior group. And even for the smallest babies in the nursery.
OPTION 5 – bubble wrap.
Packaging film with bubbles also gives an interesting print pattern, which can be used in non-traditional drawing in kindergarten. For example, make an imprint of a honeycomb (as in the picture below).
Or make a drawing of a spring or autumn tree.
OPTION 6 – potato stamps.
You can cut stamps of any shape from potato halves. Cut the potatoes in half. Wipe the wet cut of the potato with a paper napkin. On the cut using a marker we draw the outlines of the future stamp. Cut with a knife along the drawn contours.
It is better to choose oblong, elongated potatoes for stamps. So that a child's hand can comfortably grasp the potato. Below in the photo we present only two topics for such unconventional drawing - owls and tulips. But you can come up with your own options. If you add PVA glue to the paint, you can glue details (eyes, nose, handles) on top of the prints.
You can make an experimental double stamp. Cut the halves of the champagne out of two potatoes and fasten the two potatoes together by piercing them through with a toothpick and wrapping them with electrical tape or tape. Come up with a cool idea and experiment with creating stamps for it.
Unconventional drawing
PLUFFY colors.
Here’s another cool material for unconventional drawing, which young children love so much. This is a VOLUME PAINT for creating puffy designs. Making this kind of paint at home is quick and easy - mix PVA glue with gouache in a bowl and add daddy’s shaving foam. We make several of these bowls (not necessarily large ones) based on the idea of what we will draw with the children. For a watermelon you only need two colors - so start with that. Watermelon seeds are a simple black gouache that we drip here and there.
A variety of ideas can be implemented in this drawing technique for children in kindergarten. The simplest one is a waffle cone with ice cream. The horn is cut out of rough packaging cardboard, and we draw a waffle grid on it with a marker. The child glues the horn onto a sheet of paper (below) and lays out round balls with a three-dimensional design on it. You can give your child round templates, which he will first trace with a pencil over the edge of the horn, and then foam paint will be placed in these round outlines.
You can also put several spoons of different paints on the horn and then use the opposite end of a 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 at school or kindergarten during art classes.
Methods of working with thick paint in children's classes.
You can mix the paint on a separate tray (or on a piece of oilcloth). It’s better when each child makes his own color mixture - so we give each child his own oilcloth.
We put individual oilcloths for children on each table. Place bowls with 4 colors of paint in the center of the table. The child mixes these colors into a common puddle on his oilcloth - to the point of beautiful stains. Then a paper outline of a character (for example, a seahorse) is applied to the puddle. And then he lays it out to dry (the outlines of the skates must be signed with the child’s name in advance, and do not forget to remind the children to apply the unsigned side to the paint). Then the next day, when the foam paint has dried on the silhouette of the skate, you can continue working and make an applique of the skate in sea waters, add thorns and algae around it, stick on shells, and sprinkle sand on the glue.
You can try these interesting drawing techniques while working with children, both at home and in the garden. At school, this unconventional drawing can be carried out in art classes, leaving the whole process to the child for independent creativity.
On the pages of our website you will find many more different techniques for unusual painting with paints.
We already have detailed, detailed articles on the topic:
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Every child is an artist at heart. Almost all preschool children love to draw. Some people like pencils, some like crayons, some like paints. Fine art does not stand still; today there are many interesting and unconventional drawing techniques for children.
Unusual drawing methods help create real masterpieces and are suitable even for children who have not yet succeeded in such activities. We will learn all about drawing techniques for children such as two-handed drawing, stencil drawing, grattage and monotype, rock painting and sand painting on light tables.
What are the benefits of drawing for a child?
First of all, any drawing, just like drawing, perfectly develops fine motor skills.
And this contributes to:
- training the muscles of the fingers and hands;
- preparing the hand for writing;
- development of the speech apparatus;
- development of thinking.
Drawing is a creative activity. With the help of images of objects familiar or invented by the baby, the following develops:
- creativity;
- logics;
- memory;
- fantasy.
Did you know? Children whose parents pay enough attention to the visual arts very rarely need the help of a speech therapist and quickly master simple geometric shapes and remember colors.
In addition to pencils, felt-tip pens and paints that a child is used to, there are a lot of unusual drawing techniques that can help even an unlucky artist create real works of art.
Drawing with stencils
There is nothing complicated in this technique, but the drawings always turn out beautiful. For drawing, diagrams and stencils selected specifically for children are used.
You will need
- paper;
- stencils;
- air markers.
How to prepare
- Choose a “safe” place in the apartment - finely dispersed paint, thanks to the child’s curiosity, will fly in all directions.
- If necessary, cover it with oilcloth.
How to draw
- Place a sheet of paper on your work surface.
- Place the stencil on top.
- Take a felt-tip pen of the color you want and blow paint onto the paper.
If your baby is very young, you can try painting without a stencil - let the child just learn how to blow paint. You can even decorate objects with such stencils.
Usually, stencils are already included with air felt-tip pens. We offer you a few more simple stencils:
Drawing with two hands using templates
This type of drawing is aimed at developing the child's intelligence. When a baby repeats movements with both hands, both hemispheres of the brain are involved. This stimulates the development of thinking and coordination well. Drawing with both hands is performed simultaneously according to templates selected for children according to age and skills.
What you will need
- two identical pencils or felt-tip pens;
- symmetrical dot patterns.
This kind of drawing does not require special preparation. Just explain to your child and show with a personal example how you will draw:
- Place the template in front of you.
- Take two pencils or felt-tip pens in your hands.
- Place the pencil leads in the center of the image.
- Draw lines symmetrically, connecting points.
- Then, for a little rest, invite the baby to color the resulting outline.
- Start these classes by drawing simple lines; you can use a checkered notebook sheet:
- Then you can move on to simple drawings:
- Over time, you can invite your child to draw two identical pictures in parallel:
Scratch
A very interesting drawing technique. This is a method of creating a design by scratching on a prepared sheet of paper.
You will need
- thick sheet of paper;
- light colored paints (optional);
- dark gouache;
- wax or paraffin;
- a piece of soap;
- wide brush;
- skewer;
- newspaper.
Let's prepare the canvas
- Take the paper. You can leave it white, or you can paint it in different colors with a wide brush - this will make the drawing more interesting.
- When the paint is dry, rub a sheet of paper with wax or paraffin.
- Dip a wide brush into dark paint, wash the brush with soap and paint the entire sheet.
- Wait until your canvas is thoroughly dry.
How to draw
- Spread a newspaper on the table - this will make it easy to clean your work area.
- Take a skewer and, with light pressure, scratch the outline of the design.
- Where you need a brighter outline, scratch off more dark paint with paraffin.
To draw, you can outline the contours of an object, or you can draw just like that. Using this technique you can draw anything:
Monotype
This type of drawing allows you to create a mirror image.
You will need
- a sheet of paper folded in half;
- paints and brushes;
- some water.
Prepare your work area in the same way as for regular painting.
How to draw
- Unfold the folded sheet of paper.
- On one of the halves, quickly draw half of a symmetrical design. The easiest way to start is with a butterfly.
- While the paint is still wet, lightly moisten the other half of the sheet with clean water using a brush.
- Carefully close the leaf. It is better to cover the painted part with the unpainted part - this way the paint will not flow.
- Iron the folded sheet well with your palms and unfold.
- Now you can complete the details and contours on both halves of the picture.
This is what the kids get:
Drawing on rocks
Painting on rocks is a great way for children to create real souvenirs from ordinary pebbles with your help. It’s also convenient - if the drawing doesn’t work out, you can always wash the stone, dry it and start again.
What you will need
- stones (ordinary river pebbles will do);
- a simple pencil with a soft lead;
- gouache and brushes;
- furniture varnish or hairspray.
Preparation
- Pre-wash the stones and dry them.
- Prepare a place for drawing.
- Separately prepare the place where you will open the crafts with varnish. It is better to do this without the baby.
How to draw
- Draw the outline of the design on the pebble. You can first prime the surface of the stone with white paint.
- Carefully color the outline. Apply paint onto the brush thickly, so the picture will not bleed.
- Add decorative elements.
- When the drawing is thoroughly dry, you can open it with varnish. If you want to fix the design with hairspray, it is better to treat the craft in 3-4 layers.
You can make many souvenirs using this technique:
Sand painting on light tables
This is perhaps the most amazing direction in fine arts. Using this technique they create real cartoons, show shows, draw real masterpieces, playing with light, shadow and halftones. Previously, this seemed like something inaccessible, but nowadays you can even take courses for children where they teach sand painting on light tables. There is nothing complicated about this; such drawing can be done at home.
What you will need
- light table (you can have your dad make it, or you can buy it);
- fine sand;
- hands and imagination;
- skewer.
How to prepare
- River sand works well. But first you need to dial it.
- When you have obtained the sand, pour it into a bucket and fill it with water.
- Drain the water. Repeat the manipulation as many times as necessary until the water becomes clear. This way you will remove debris and dust from the sand, leaving only the fine sand we need.
- Leave the sand to dry in a wide container.
How to draw
- Pour sand along the edges of the table.
- You can take a handful or a pinch of sand and pour all kinds of lines, creating a pattern:
- To create a background, you can evenly distribute sand with your palm over the surface of the table. Against this background, you can create any drawings by removing excess sand with your fingers.
- With the help of the play of light and shadow, children manage to create all kinds of patterns and designs using their imagination and their hands.
Experiment with the thickness of the sand layer, draw with your palm, fingers, or draw precise lines with your fingernail or skewer.
Using this technique you can create real masterpieces.
- If you don't know one of these techniques, don't despair. Today there are many clubs and art studios where real professionals will teach a child to create unusual works.
- Experiment more with different techniques Drawing is a good workout for your hands and head. The more techniques a child masters, the easier it will be for him to find his calling.
- Support any endeavors of the baby. It doesn’t really matter to him what technique he uses, as long as his mother is happy.
Drawing techniques for preschool children - video
This video demonstrates the monotype technique, creating a landscape over a river.
This video shows a simplified version of preparing the canvas for scratching and demonstrates the technique of making the drawing.
This video shows the basic techniques for sand painting on a light table for children.
Many mothers want their child to develop harmoniously. Today, there are a lot of unusual drawing techniques that develop not only creative abilities, but also imagination, logic, and coordination. Some of them even adopted kindergartens.
Don’t be afraid to offer your child new techniques in his favorite activity, and support your child in his creative pursuits!
And with what unusual techniques Is drawing familiar to your little one? Where did he first try to draw like this: at home, in kindergarten or on a circle? If you know some other interesting drawing techniques, tell us about them in the comments!