Painting is one of the doors that open to the inner world of children. The child conveys his inner world, unconscious desires and feelings through pictures. It allows the child to express himself. Drawing is very important for children, especially in the preschool period.
Benefits of drawing for children;
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It exercises the right and left brain together.
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Improves hand-eye coordination.
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Increases concentration power.
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Adds responsibility.
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Provides anger control.
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Improves self-confidence.
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Your personality, It reflects their desires, concerns and emotions.
The characteristics of the pictures they draw vary depending on the child's developmental period. While random lines are seen at the age of 2-3, human figures begin to be seen from the age of 3. As the child gets older, the pictures he draws become clearer. During these periods, it would be better to encourage the child rather than trying to direct him/her.
Colors and shapes express various meanings depending on the whole picture. Popular colors are used intensively, disliked colors are used less. Vibrant colors are intense in happy pictures, and dark colors are intense in sad pictures.
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The meaning of the color red changes depending on the picture as a whole. Sometimes it expresses an aggressive situation, and sometimes it expresses excitement and happiness.
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Green is a color that is reassuring and expresses happiness.
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Yellow color again expresses liveliness and happiness.
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Purple reflects the need for parental support.
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Black, pessimism. and unhappiness.
In addition to colors, human and object details are also important. Distortions in the shapes and faint drawings all mean something.
When you look at the pictures of children with attention deficit and hyperactivity, the incompleteness of the picture, distortions in the shapes and scribbles draw attention.
Children with phobia show this in their pictures. It reflects in many different ways. A child with dog phobia may draw the dog as big and black.
A child with self-confidence problems may draw himself faintly.
Any family member A child who has a problem with this can draw that person in a different position. He may not draw near his family, but may draw it somewhere far away. Or they don't draw that person at all.
Children want to be free when drawing. That's why we shouldn't interfere with our children with guiding sentences such as "draw this" or "don't draw that".
When the picture is finished, we should encourage the child to verbally express what he said in the picture. In this way, the child feels that he is cared for and can describe his drawing as he wishes. This improves both the child's self-confidence and his ability to express himself verbally.
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