I've always wanted to cultivate children's interest in painting, but it's no use trying again when I find that the direction is wrong.

Batai and I are both people without artistic cells, although we don't expect our son to surpass us as an artist. Purely holding a very rational attitude, I hope he can have a hobby to kill time or cultivate sentiment when he is alone.

Therefore, in terms of art training, we chose painting as the starting point.

Why did you choose painting? Because it has a low threshold and is easy to operate. You can doodle at will with a brush and paper. Moreover, painting can develop children's intelligence, enrich their imagination and improve their creative thinking ability in early childhood. More importantly, I found that children are naturally interested in painting, so I believe many parents will try.

However, on the enlightenment road of painting, we have stepped on many pits and experienced several stages of misunderstanding.

1. When children are one or two years old and still can't understand the instructions, hide the brush out of reach, lest they scribble and dirty the walls, furniture and other items at home;

2. When children are older, they will buy some sketchbooks for them to copy, or teach them to fill in coloring books;

Show them how to draw, and then let them compare pictures. Or teach them to draw simple shapes by hand.

I believe many parents have done these things, but after I have done so much, I found that children's interest in painting has declined instead of rising, and the paintings they have drawn are still at the graffiti level of one or two years old. I began to feel anxious.

In particular, I saw the paintings by my nephew who is similar to his age. They are already decent and won the prize in the competition. I have a headache. My son's paintings are messy and fragmented.

Just when I hesitated to enroll my child in a painting enlightenment interest class, it suddenly occurred to me that a friend runs a training institution in his hometown. She is a painting teacher, and because she is not in the same city, she usually has few opportunities to communicate.

This time I went to her with these puzzles and wanted to get some advice from her.

Unexpectedly, she only recommended two books to me, leaving a sentence: "After reading these two books, it is enough to do painting enlightenment at home." "

I also told many training institutions in our city that in order to comply with parents' desire to become talents, I hope children can get back beautiful works from interest classes. Most of the frameworks are completed by teachers, so let the children add a few strokes.

Parents are happy to see such works, thinking that their children have improved, but they don't know that the works brought home by each child are the same, which is not the result of their own creation at all.

She also said with a wry smile, teachers also know that this will not help children much, and even destroy their creativity, but there is no way, and parents' expectations must be met to survive.

After further discussion, I found that many of her ideas coincided with mine, so I immediately bought the books recommended by her online.

It took me a day to read these two books, only to find that in the process of teaching children to draw, parents or teachers need to do very little, but learn to listen and encourage more. Drawing can bring more benefits to children than the original idea.

I found that my child has been particularly interested in graffiti since he was one year old, but when we draw dirty walls or furniture at home, we are always worried about hiding the brush from him. In fact, this limited his exploration of himself;

In fact, if we are worried about being too dirty, we can let him enjoy painting in the designated area. Later, I put up a blackboard in my living room and told him that he could draw at will within this range. With a clear boundary, he will feel more secure about painting without fear of being suddenly accused.

The reason why children don't obey the rules is often because the rules formulated by adults are unclear and the boundaries are blurred. At the same time, we often break the rules, which will make children feel confused and uneasy, so they can't adapt to the rules well.

What we have to do is not to teach children to draw. All we can teach is our own ideas. The language we want to express is our own story.

We can't teach our children what we don't have, but we can learn from them what they have. This is a heuristic education. What a child needs is a space for him to express himself freely, and painting is the best way for him to express his inner thoughts.

So what do we need to do? It's simple: just listen to his story. Encourage him to tell what his lines or patterns represent and what kind of stories are behind them. You will find that the child's inner language is very rich and the inner world is very wonderful.

By patiently asking them questions and listening to their stories in paintings, we can not only enter the inner world of children, but also encourage children to develop their language skills and learn to express themselves.

I believe that many parents will be eager to let their children draw decent works at first, and then show him how apples are drawn. First draw a circle, then draw a stem. Bananas are curved. ......

Yes, I've done it, too. Badai even bought a stick figure book. We first learned to draw and then taught him to draw. But what are the consequences of doing so?

After several demonstrations by adults, the children said that they could not draw and even began to resist drawing. Every time I say, shall we draw lots? The dumb will be embarrassed to say, but I can't draw. Sometimes they are asked: Mom, you can draw.

This is because children before the age of 9, whether hand movements or brain development, do not have the ability to learn painting skills. Learning painting skills in early childhood will only make him experience setbacks prematurely, thus weakening his interest in painting. And the most important functions of painting (language, thinking, imagination development, etc. ) can't play.

Then I stopped showing him in front of him. Instead, he bought a lot of copy paper, prepared a brush and put it on the coffee table in the living room where he often moves. Every time he wants to draw, he can pick it up and doodle a few times.

I won't comment on his paintings, but I will ask him with interest what the contents in his paintings represent. When he is encouraged, he will be happy to share it with me. If he doesn't want to talk or won't talk, I'm not in a hurry. When he wants to say or knows how to say it, he will say it naturally.

When you find that your child always doesn't know what to draw, or suddenly he is not interested in drawing, it may be that his recent life is too boring and boring. What we have to do is not tell him orally what to draw and how to draw it. On the contrary, we should take him outdoors to feel the richness of nature and life.

Playing on the beach, paddling in the water, running on the grass, observing small animals and reading an interesting picture book are the most precious life experiences for children. The experience gained in this process will leave many rich images in his mind, which will then be transformed into his own language and expressed in a way he can control.

The transformation process completed by oneself through inner participation is the most precious wealth in a child's life.