Drawing plays a very useful role in promoting the development of your child.It serves as a medium for capturing thoughts, exploring ideas, and then sharing those ideas. Aside from improving mental and emotional capabilities, a child may enjoy improved sensory and motor skills through constant painting and drawing.
Drawing makes children more expressive
Often children aren’t able to always express themselves using words and actions, so drawing is another important form of communication. You can know about your child’s thoughts and feelings through their drawings. Being able to express what they feel also boosts a child’s emotional intelligence.
It enhances your child’s motor skills
From a small scribble to a masterpiece that takes pride of place in your living room, drawing can enhance your child’s motor skills from a young age. Starting them as early as possible will help them improve their hand and eye coordination, while fine-tuning their finger muscles.
It Improves creativity and imagination skill
Drawing would obviously make use of one’s imagination. Drawing enables your child’s imagination to become more active. Each time they draw they access their imagination and make physical representations of what’s in their mind. People’s imaginations have allowed them to create all of the things that we use and are surrounded by.
Drawing develops your kid’s problem solving skills
When drawing, a child is faced with multiple decisions- whether it’s ‘what colour should I use here?’ or ‘How do I draw a animal and connect one part of its body to another?’ All these questions require them to solve problems. Try asking them why they drew certain parts the way they did or why they used certain colours, and see what solutions they came to.
It makes your child more observant of the details
To add to the list of benefits of painting and drawing, these activities would enable one to become more observant of the details of his surroundings. As one is more exposed to light, darkness, color, shading, and many other properties of painting and drawing, he would be able to pay closer attention to finer details.
