Childhood is an integral part of a person's life and proves to be vital in a person's further development as an adult.
Whether your child’s medium is chalk on a sidewalk or crayons on printer paper, he or she likely enjoys the act of creating art. Along with other forms of expression like dance and sports, drawing has numerous developmental benefits.
Brain being more receptive art also helps in faster development in areas such as :
Social Skills:
Your child learns to interact with teachers, other students and their communication skills improve.
Develops Fine Motor Skills :
Fine motor skills include any specialized movement of the hands, wrists, and fingers. As an adult, you rely on fine motor skills when you type, drive, or even text. It’s important for your child to develop strong fine motor skills at a young age. Holding and manipulating writing implements represents one of the best ways to improve a child’s fine motor skills.
Improves Hand-Eye Coordination :
In addition to improving fine motor skills, drawing enables your child to draw connections between what he or she sees and what he or she does. This hand-eye coordination is important in athletic and recreational situations, as well as in academic scenarios such as penmanship lessons. For a hand-eye coordination boost, have your child draw an object while looking at it
or copy a drawing that you made.
Helps Establish Concentration:
Just like physical muscles are built by exercising every day, similarly, more the work is done more mental muscles which help
to focus on a task are built. Drawing, completing assignments takes time, which in turn requires your child to focus completely on it, which develops his/her concentration powers.Because most children enjoy drawing, this activity provides time to establish the concepts of concentration and practice. These concepts will be essential to your child’s academic success, even in elementary school.
Stress buster:
Studies have shown children who are engaged in drawing and painting activities have better mental health. Your child will become more resilient. Sketching and colouring also have soothing effects on the mind.
Observation and Imagination:
The most basic and important skill art teaches is: observation. Even a painting of a tree can teach your child many things: how the roots are growing into the ground, the brown texture of soil, the textures of trunk, the insects on the trunk, how the trunk leads to branches and then into even smaller and thinner branches and leaves. The symmetry of leaves, arrangement of veins in them, different shades of colour green, birds settling in trees. This is just an example, there are many around.It leads to their development of visual skill. They develop the power of observing, reimagining, and being able to convey the idea to others through drawing.
Patience and Perseverance:
Learning a skill requires patience and perseverance. It takes time and the process can sometimes be frustrating. But once improvement starts, a belief kicks in, self-belief to be able to draw, and also self-confidence develops that is needed in just every aspect of a child’s life.
Encourages Visual Analysis
Young children do not yet understand some concepts that you may take for granted, such as distance, size comparison, and textural differences. Drawing provides the perfect opportunity for your child to learn these concepts in a deliberate way. Having a child draw specific items, especially in relationship to each other, can help him or her perform fundamental visual analysis of everyday spaces. To support this kind of drawing at home, prompt your child to draw examples of big and small, rough and smooth, far and near, and so on.
Increases Individual Confidence
As a parent or guardian, you probably love to hear the phrase, “Look what I made!” When you child has an opportunity to
create physical representations of his or her imagination, thoughts, and experiences, he or she gains confidence. Drawing
can help your child feel more intrinsic motivation, self-worth, and validity. This affirmation will make him or her more confident
in other areas that may not come as naturally as drawing.
Encourage your little one to draw throughout his or her childhood to reap all the benefits listed above. They need to practice at home for better results in his or her improvement.
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