children learning art – what kind of mind parents should have?

Today we talk about the questions which made many parents confused: When take children to learn art, what kind of mind parents should have?

First of all, Let us take a look at these graffiti changes made by child from 1-9 years old: one and half year old, back and force hand movement

one year old drawing

a year and half drawing

After the age of a year and half, the child starts to draw from a large continuous circle to a small continuous circle and after two years old, the child can draw a single line and closed circle, painting consciousness began to sprout.

graffiti made by 3 years kid

Three-year-old children began to hand-painted, with a lot of circle composed of the picture to tell their own story, three and a half years kids start to draw dot and horizontal line in the circle, portrait image began to appear in the child’s drawings.

At the age of four, child begins to draw hands and feet on the basis of the head, child after four and a half years likes to draw a variety of images on paper, and there will be the same recurrence image to show the situation of a story.

The various things have their own characteristics and the relationship between these things; the characters wear clothes in the picture.

Began to have the ability to abstract things and pattern, which is the basis of the development of written language. Children can even draw out the story that they hear with rich expression.

drawing made by 7-8 years kid

The child around age of seven will start to draw a portrait of people from the front, side, back three angles, and then at the age of eight children will begin to draw a portrait of the characters.

The child around age of nine finally came to use the same way of observation as adults, and began to change the drawing way to from abstract to realism. Understand the rule of the natural growth of children’s painting, and then look at the mentality that parents should have when their kids are leaning art.

First learn to “listening” rather than “seeing” the child’s painting

The child’s painting is not as to “see”, but as to “listen”, that is, the child’s painting is “listening” to understand things. For the children, their paintings are only “listened”, and understood, they will have a kind of fun of expression, and their painting behavior makes sense. Parents do not question why the child does not draw ears and feet and so on, just need to be patient and happy to listen to the story that the children talk. Children’s paintings are still imperfect in the eyes of adults, but do not make fun of their paintings. Otherwise it will hurt the child’s passion for painting.

Secondly, do not be anxious, anxious to ask for your insistence

Some parents didn’t see the “decent” artwork after children learn a few times, So they thought teacher didn’t do a good job. In fact, when the child abandons the original, and does not understand the new painting method, it is necessary to re-understand the process of painting. But mostly often parents do not understand, and do not tolerate the child have this time to process, this kind of parent is anxious to see the result, showing a kind of impatience. In fact, teachers are easy to meet these desires that parents want to see the child has a “decent” painting, the teacher can arrange the child to draw the content in two minutes, and the child will be in accordance with the teacher’s intention to draw a “decent” drawing to please their parents happy. But this practice of imposing the idea on the child is not good to child’s creativity, in terms of teaching, a good teacher, sometimes rather be mistakenly believed by the parents that the teacher did not teach kid very well, nor will impact the wrong way of thinking to the child.