Develop your baby: finger painting

2024 Author: Priscilla Miln | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 00:21

Now many mothers are trying to start training their baby as early as possible. The stores offer a wide range of educational aids and toys for children up to a year old. You can use finger painting, picking up mosaics, playing with plasticine and scraps of fabric of different textures. All this will stimulate the baby's play activity.

The benefits of drawing

Any kind of artistic creation is very useful. Sculpting, painting, plasticine develops imagination, independence, fine motor skills. Vigorous activity associated with fingers, palm, hand as a whole stimulates speech, thinking. The use of non-traditional materials enhances the interest of young artists. They enjoy the very process of creating a picture.

The benefits of this activity

Finger drawing starts from an early age, when the baby's hand is not yet developed enough to hold a brush, pencil or felt-tip pen. Very often, this method is used to refine the finished image.

There are different options: make white spotson a fly agaric or black on a ladybug, a pattern on a sundress for a paper doll, drops of rain coming from a cloud. As a result, the kid, having made just a few primings of paint on the sheet, gets a beautiful picture that he made himself. He is pleased with the result of his work and is proud of the craft.

Finger painting with kids involves the use of safe colors. Considering that special paints are not cheap, such entertainment turns out to be expensive. However, it is not. In fact, purchased sets do not have to be used at all. Any food coloring added to a safe or even edible creamy consistency will work. The base can be yogurt, semolina, flour or starch, mixed with water and vegetable oil in certain proportions. Such simple ingredients are in the kitchen of every housewife. In addition, finger painting can be done with foods with bright juice, such as beets or blueberries.

Which colors to choose

Manufacturers of art materials and products for children offer a wide range of kits for this method of artistic creation. Ready-made sets of blanks for working with several small jars of paints corresponding to the picture are sold. Drawing with fingers with them becomes even easier, more interesting and more fun.

Available with stamped caps. The volumes of containers with contents vary significantly, as well as their number in a set. There are sets of two or four.colors 120 ml, 80 ml. If there are many flowers, then each will be 25 ml. It's better to start with a couple of jars. When the technique is mastered, it will be possible to add shades.

Drawing for children with fingers is a very unusual activity. Since it starts with kids, who may well taste paints, it is permissible to use only natural pigments. Here the best option would be homemade paints, berries, beets. Special kits are sold for children under one year old, however, firstly, they are poorly washed from hands and fabrics, and, secondly, the specific composition on the package may not be indicated. In order not to risk the he alth of the baby, it is worth spending a little time and making paints with your own hands. This is not difficult. Choose any recipe from the available ones and be calm for your young artist.

What stories to suggest

It is important for children under one year old to try the process itself, to develop their hand, to get new sensations and impressions. At this age, there is no specific subject image. Drawing in the younger group with fingers may include the following tasks:

• drawing samples with colorful spots;
• tracks from prints;
• drawn rays, stems, rain;
• using the palm as a stamp.

Older children will invent complex stories, composing flowers, cars, animal figures from fingerprints.

So, drawing for children with fingers is not only interesting, but also a very useful creative developmental process. Unconventional materials and techniques are always attractive. Considering that you can make safe paints for kids with your own hands, and with the big guys you can use ordinary gouache, this activity will be relatively cheap entertainment.