Cotton buds, it turns out, can be used not only for their intended purpose. With their help, you can also draw, and in the process of creativity to develop children, remember colors, introduce kids to nature, develop fine motor skills, enrich the child’s vocabulary and many other useful functions that this simple hygiene item performs. But first things first.
Unconventional drawing
In order to arouse interest in drawing in children, it is necessary to turn this process into a game or a fairy tale. At first, the child draws with pleasure with his fingers, then with pencils and brushes. Time passes and interest in drawing is lost.
To support children's desire to create, you can offer them unconventional drawing techniques. In such cases, it is allowed to draw with what one wants and as one wants.
But adults always direct the child in some direction, so they can offer him certain forms of painting. For example, blotography, the basis of which is a sheet of paper folded in half and a few drops of paint. Or drawing with a candle, when first an invisible pattern is applied to the paper, and then the child covers the sheet with paint. The contours of the pattern remain colorless. Or drawing with cotton buds.
Pointillism
Drawing with cotton buds can be called one of the types of pointillism.
Pointillism is a unique trend in painting, which is translated from French as “point by point”. Pictures of this plan were written by many artists. For example, paintings by Georges Seurat are recognized as masterpieces. He is considered the founder of this technique.
Drawing with cotton buds is a very unusual technique, interesting not only for younger schoolchildren, but also for kids who are just getting acquainted with various painting tools.
Pointillism for a child
Children are usually happy to welcome the technique of drawing with cotton buds, as you can create the same picture in completely different ways.
- When working, you can take the template as a basis and fill in all the details of the picture with dots of a certain color.
- You can not fill the whole picture, but make only the outline of the details as multi-colored dots.
- It’s exciting to complement dots with ready-made drawings and patterns. This option is especially convenient for very young artists: when mom offers to draw eyes to some animal or people, and it’s also interesting to create snow or rain with cotton buds.
- School children can be offered the creation of more complex works, for example, reproducing a mosaic picture.
Drawing with cotton buds for beginners
For children aged 1 to 3 years, drawing with sticks is much easier than with a brush. In order to interest the baby, you first need to show him how you can draw a beautiful line or put a point, then another, and then a different color.
For the first lesson you will need the following inventory:
- paints for painting, for example, finger paints or ordinary gouache, if there is no fear that the child will pull the paint in his mouth;
- paper;
- templates with black and white drawings or thematic pictures on which you want to finish something;
- a large number of cotton buds;
- palette.
A plastic palette is useful in order not to give the child a whole jar of paint. Very often, children have a desire to use such an abundance of material for other purposes. On the palette, it’s convenient to dilute with water several colors of paint and put your own wand next to each. After everything is ready, you can start drawing pictures with a cotton swab on an interesting topic.
It is better to think over the topics of the upcoming classes in advance, to choose suitable poems or riddles. Do not neglect the finger game in the middle of drawing, because kids from 1 to 3 are often distracted. And they need a constant change of activity.
Pointillism for Preschoolers
In working with preschool children, it is worth paying attention to the story about the pointillism technique itself. It is necessary to give minimal information that the pattern is created using separate strokes or dots of different colors.
It is advisable to prepare several paintings created in the technique of pointillism, to show them to the child in order to cause a deeper interest.
It is important that when creating a picture of paint can not be mixed with each other. In this case, the distance from one point to another can be large, but, on the contrary, it is possible to place points close to each other.
If you wish, in the future it is not necessary to use paints for painting pictures using the pointillism technique, you can replace cotton buds with markers, pens or felt-tip pens.
Age nuances
In each drawing technique, there are various secrets and nuances. Pointillism is no exception. There are some points that you should focus on in order to get the most satisfactory result.
- For kids in the first classes it is better to offer only one color of paint. Pictures should be selected as simple as possible: the sun, an apple or snow, rain.
- Older children are given more difficult tasks. The number of colors is increasing. This will allow young artists to show imagination.
- And older students can try themselves in the role of artists, creating whole pictures in the technique of pointillism.
An example of one of the classes - "Rowan branch"
Drawing mountain ash with cotton swabs is an activity that can be carried out both in kindergarten groups and with children at home. It is aimed at introducing children to a new method of drawing, as well as arouse their interest in nature.
In the lesson, the child will learn to portray a bunch of mountain ash using the pointillism technique.
For classes you will need the following equipment:
- a bunch of mountain ash (picture or real);
- red paint (gouache or finger paints);
- twig patterns;
- Silhouettes of bullfinches.
The course of the lesson.
- A riddle is made: “In the winter, apples on the branches! Collect them soon! And suddenly apples fluttered, because it is ... (Bullfinches). ”
- Bullfinches came to visit the children . Bullfinches arrive in late autumn, early winter, so a conversation about changes in nature in these seasons is appropriate: leaves fly from trees, birds fly to warmer climes, berries ripen on some trees, for example, on mountain ash.
- It is necessary to consider a branch of mountain ash. Introduce the new word “brush”: there are a lot of berries, they are all very close to each other. The concept of the “circle” shape is also repeated and the knowledge of red is fixed.
- Show children the blanks and say that trouble has occurred. A strong wind came in, and all the berries of the mountain ash fell. And the guests were very upset. Invite children to please feathered friends and draw them a new treat.
- The painting technique is described. The sequence of actions is mandatory: the wand is first wetted in water, then dipped in paint, only after that we put a dot-berry on the template.
- Drawing with cotton buds the picture "Rowan branch."
- During the lesson, the bullfinch physical session is held.
Bullfinches fly, flap their wings.
They can't sit still
Spinning like a spinning top
Jump - jump, jump - jump.
Have lunch to fly
But there is only snow and snow all around.
It’s good that they feed me
Made a good man!