Learn more about how the drawing skills boost your child's imagination, logical thinking skills, fine motor skills, social and emotional intelligence.

1. Ways To Boost Your Child’s Drawing Skills

2. Drawing skills improve muscle development & control
It’s important that children are physically ready to begin drawing
activities for kids at home. Focus on exercising shoulder and arm
muscles (gross motor skills). Here are some great ideas to get your
child moving. Get her to climb a tree or pull herself up using her arms,
swirl and dance with a coloured ribbon stuck to a stick in wide arcs,
sweep with a broom, fill and empty toy buckets, draw giant chalk
circles on the driveway, in fact, anything that will get your child
stretching up or across her body!

3. Most of what your will be needing can be found around in your home
itself.
As muscles and control develop, your child will automatically progress
to using crayons or chalk to draw big circles and straight lines on
paper. This type of drawing is often dismissed as squiggles and
doodles but is actually an important step in learning to draw.
Remember, for a toddler learning to control any tool, such as a pencil,
crayon or paintbrush is hard and requires a lot of practice. Hand-eye
coordination is also key for drawing as is the need for your child to
build up control in her hands and fingers. Many of these skills can be
supported by ensuring your child is physically active through play for
at least an hour and a half, daily.

4. Instill drawing skills and make it fun
Parents can be most supportive by providing some basic art material.
Drawing can become a major part of kids’ activities. It does not
require expensive inputs – just a pencil, an eraser and a few sheets of
paper and then leaves your child to get on with it.
The importance of drawing and painting in child development
becomes even more meaningful as drawing stimulates and nurtures
the imagination. The best way to encourage your child is when you
avoid comparing your child’s drawing to another child’s work. Do not
push or put your child under pressure to draw.

5. Instill drawing skills and make it fun
Improve how your child communicates:
As stated earlier, toddlers and young children cannot always find the
right words and actions to express themselves. But by looking at what
they draw, parents can gain insight into their child’s thoughts and
feelings. Apart from this, being able to express freely helps boost a
child’s emotional intelligence.

6. Instill drawing skills and make it fun
Help your child think clearly:
When your child begins to draw, she is faced with multiple decisions
and choices — whether it’s ‘what colour should I use here?’ or ‘How
do I draw an aeroplane and connect one part of its body to another?’
‘How many petals should my flower have?’ ‘Should I make each petal
look different?’ All these questions require her to solve problems. You
can learn a lot by asking questions such as, why did she draw certain
parts of the flower the way she did? Why she used one colour and not
another? See what answers your child comes up with to justify her
decisions.

7. Instill drawing skills and make it fun
Stimulate your child’s imagination:
Drawing sets your child’s imagination free. Each time she draws, she
learns to access her imagination and is able to put down on paper
what she has in her mind. As she becomes more adept at drawing,
your child will be able to create all the things she imagines and
notices around her. You really cannot fathom what your child’s
boundless imagination can bring to life!

8. Instill drawing skills and make it fun
Make your child future-ready:
Drawing lays the foundation for logical thinking or abstract thought.
Whether your child is still at home with you or at school already,
drawing helps her prepare for understanding difficult concepts and
ideas. Learning creative ways of thinking at an early age prepares your
child for future education.
Don’t forget to provide a variety of materials to draw with, and don’t
ignore digital media tools. It makes sense to help your child get used
to tablets and other smart devices she will be using frequently in the
future.

9. Conclusion
Process Art learning experiences inspire toddlers and young children
to think different, be innovative, and devise ways to learn about
interesting things found in the real world. Changing the way a child
discovers and imagines. Igniting her mind to think, play and learn like
never before.
If you like to enrol your child in drawing classes for kids or participate
in cognitive learning activities, give Abrakadoodle a call. Or better still,
make an appointment with the head of a centre near you.
Get hands-on exposure to an experience that will make you see art in
a way that adds value to your child’s life.

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