Children love coloring books. The heroes of your favorite books and cartoons come to life, it is worth drawing a few lines with a felt-tip pen or colored pencil. Modern technologies allow parents and teachers to make any coloring, for this it is enough to learn how to find suitable pictures and turn a color image into a contour image. Why does a child need a coloring book?
Children love to paint. But a preschooler, especially a younger one, very quickly loses interest in any activity if he does not see a quick result. When a child sits down to draw, he wants to get an image in a few minutes. At the same time, he still has few skills to work with a brush and a pencil, and his fine motor skills are not sufficiently developed. Coloring allows him to get a beautiful picture with a minimum of effort. And the first purpose of this book with outline drawings is to support the kid's interest in art.
The coloring book teaches the child to navigate the worksheet. It defines the center, top and bottom, right and left sides. This will greatly help in learning not only drawing, but also writing. In addition, he gets an idea of the main and secondary details, about the perspective. Close-up items appear larger, and distant items appear smaller. In addition, the young artist learns to paint various details without going beyond the lines. He learns that the shape can be conveyed by lines of different lengths. This will be useful to him in the future, when he will independently draw complex compositions or begin to learn to write and draw.
Most children's coloring pages place the main image in the center. The child intuitively begins to follow the same principle when creating his own drawings, and this has a very large psychotherapeutic effect. When working with problem children, psychologists and teachers often use this method - they teach children to draw large objects in the center of the sheet. This allows toddlers to cope with insecurities.
When a child paints pictures, he is dealing with different colors. The kid not only remembers their names, but also gets a big charge of positive emotions. At the same time, he can immediately fill in a large field, which also contributes to the creation of a positive mood. In addition, the baby learns to compare the colors with the reference. For example, some coloring books have two pictures printed side by side - color and outline. The child looks at a colored pencil and tries to find the same shade of a pencil or felt-tip pen. In some books, it is suggested to paint images in colors named by words.
The coloring book promotes the development of children's speech. Preschoolers have a tendency to talk over what they are doing. If the baby often paints pictures, he not only remembers the names of objects and phenomena that are new to him, but also establishes their relationship, as well as the methods of action. He can repeat a familiar fairy tale in the process, if, for example, he has several illustrations. You can come up with something of your own. For example, pick up pictures that are related in meaning, but unfamiliar to the child. Offer to color them. In the process, let the kid come up with what happened to the characters. If he finds it difficult, you can sometimes prompt him.
Coloring options - a great variety. You can use them to teach your child to count by offering pictures with images of groups of objects. In this case, arithmetic operations look like this: “Let's count how many apples are in the picture. You've already colored three. How much more to paint? You can offer to paint the letters, and older kids can make, for example, a plan for finding a treasure and suggest making the lawn green, the pond blue, and the house brown. Choosing coloring pages for your baby, you yourself will have fun and discover in yourself creative abilities that you did not even know about before.
