Development while painting for toddler
What is development while painting for toddler?
Painting for toddler isn’t the same that we mean speaking about painting.
When we (adults) think of painting we think about some image and embodiment it on the paper by the help of brush and colors.
We should remember that toddlers see the world in different way. I would say that they don’t see everything completely different, they just see it at the other angle.
Painting for toddlers is like experiment and rather a process than a result. They never know how the picture is looking that they are going to paint. They are playing with colors, explore the shades, color themselves and all they can reach around. Paints for them are like alive creatures that can move and speak, retelling awesome and fantastic stories. And if you want to interfere in and say with the expert look “Bears are never green”, you’ll spoil magic moment.
The development while painting is very essencial part of the early child development, because it is not the same as playing with toys. When playing toys a toddler uses already made toys. He is consumer.
But when playing with the paints a child learns how to create something. And this is more important in all developmental methods.
Some sceptic may say that their toddlers (especially at the age of 12-24 month) don’t paint at all but just get dirty with paints. In some points this is true. But it’s easier to say that something doesn’t true than to try to understand. I do believe that even in this early age them had a lot of emotions and impressions that they express playing with colors. Just don’t be afraid to believe.
One of our games with colors.
Red meets Yellow and say:
– Hello!
– Hello!
-Who are you?
- I’m Yellow. What is your name
– I’m Red. Let’s play and dance together!
– Oh, it would be really nice to play and dance together.
– What is your favorite song?
– My favorite song is (say your toddler’s favorite song)
- Oh, great! Let’s dance!
(And Red and Yellow starts to mix and turn into the Orange)
– We are friends and we are Orange!
The story is very simple and you can change it the way you like.
The same I’ll noticed with other children too. They don’t paint but just play with different colors:) Sometimes it’s so cute! Спасибо за публикацию!
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Lovely photos, your daughter is growing up very quickly. I was doing this painting with my grand daughter Amy only the other day. I like making a mess.
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