First of all, parents should correct an old idea of ours. The standard of drawing is not whether the shape is like or not. Especially when children are drawing, adults are pointing or directly intervening, which is an obstacle for children. Games are the highest realm of learning, and modeling and drawing games are the best games for children, so when drawing with children, don't sit still, it may be better to have fun together. Lifelong education begins with art education in early childhood. If children are always denied in this period, it will not only affect their early childhood, but also their lifelong learning ability may be denied.
Painting is an expression, and parents should be good listeners:
Adults like to label their children, whether playing outside or drawing. In fact, painting and laughing are the same, just a way to express feelings directly. For children, when they describe their works, they can be heard and understood, so they have fun expressing themselves. Therefore, the most important attitude of parents is to understand and feel their children's paintings.
Parents create a free graffiti environment for their children;
The ability of painting is naturally expressed, so the most important thing for adults is to protect their children's ability with joy and create an environmental atmosphere for their painting activities. For example, you can gather several children, put a table or a big cardboard box in a place that is easy to look after, let the children sit down, and give them the calendar paper or draft paper accumulated on weekdays, so that the children can draw by themselves. Drawing together in this way can not only stimulate children's enthusiasm for painting, but also meet the social needs of children playing with their peers. Maybe the final scene will be a little confusing, but if you want your child to draw a picture of a dynamic person, you must ensure that your child has that kind of life and experience. I think this is the responsibility of parents.
I sincerely hope that everyone will pay attention to us, see us shine, and hope that everyone will shine.
Reading Notes 2 "Cultivating Children from Painting" is a classic work by torii Zhao Mei, a famous Japanese child education expert and painter. The author has accumulated rich practical experience in the field of preschool education for more than 50 years, and combined with typical cases, analyzed the precious information hidden in children's nature paintings in a simple way to help parents understand their children's paintings correctly. This set of books consists of two volumes, one is Walking into Children's Graffiti World, and the other is an improved version of How to Treat Children's Painting and How to Teach it.
Today, I will share with you the book "Cultivating Children from Paintings". My own reading notes are actually some small experiences.
The book Into the World of Children's Graffiti consists of three chapters, namely, Introduction to Mother's Painting, Growth of Children's Painting, and Painting Questions and Answers. The book How to See and Teach Children Painting also has three chapters, namely: children's growth and the role of painting, "children's physical and mental development and the appreciation method of painting" and "witnessing the development process of children's painting". Today, I won't elaborate on the main points of each chapter, but just talk about how this book helps me as a painter.
1, painting is a way for children to express their emotions, just as crying is a way for babies to express themselves. When children can't express their emotions in words, they can draw with a brush and tell their feelings and discoveries.
2. Children's paintings are for listening. Because children use painting to express their emotions, parents need to listen to their children's thoughts and understand their behavior. People of different ages listen to paintings in different ways. 2-3-year-old children can ask "what is the painting" and listen to the meaning that children give to what they draw. After the age of 4, ask "What are they doing" and listen to the stories in children's paintings.
3. Don't teach children to draw images. Because no matter who has the natural ability to draw. Painting requires hands-on ability, eye coordination ability, language ability, emotional enthusiasm and social skills. If parents teach their children to draw concrete images (such as puppies and sunflowers), it will hinder the development of these five abilities.
4. Don't over-interpret children's paintings. Parents don't have to think that their children have psychological problems just because they painted a certain pattern, used a certain color and sat in the right position. These are not objective. Children can decide what they want to draw and what color they want to use. Parents don't need to interfere, they just need to listen to what their children draw.
5. Why don't children want to draw? If children live a routine life without inner touch every day, they naturally don't know what to draw, even if they draw something, it is something with poor content. If parents want their children to draw vivid, touching and sincere pictures, they must ensure that their children have that kind of life and experience and let them experience more happiness.
6. Parents use language to guide their children's painting activities. If your child can't draw, parents can use rich language to describe things that are not in front of him, and let the child use a brush to make them reappear.
The above six points have the greatest influence on me after reading these two books, which I strictly follow in Tian Tian's paintings. After reading this book last year, I am glad that I read it well. Fortunately, I can't draw. Fortunately, I never taught Tian Tian to draw a specific image. Also influenced by this book, I bought a white notebook for Tian Tian, so that Tian Tian can record the dribs and drabs of his life and vent his little emotions in the form of a diary every day. The development track of Tian Tian's painting is the same as that described by the author, and it is moving forward step by step.