Developing the baby: drawing with your finger

Now many mothers are trying to start training their crumbs as soon as possible. Shops offer a wide range of developmental benefits and toys for children under one year. You can use finger drawing, picking mosaic, playing with plasticine and scraps of fabric of different textures. All this will stimulate the child's play activity .

How useful drawing is

Any kind of artistic creation is very useful. Molding, engaging with paints, plasticine develops fantasy, independence, fine motor skills. Active activity associated with fingers, palm, hand generally stimulates speech, thinking. The use of non-traditional materials enhances the interest of young artists. They enjoy the process of creating a picture.

Advantages of this type of activity

Drawing a finger starts from an early age, when the baby's hand is not yet developed enough to hold a brush, a pencil or a marker. Very often this method is used to refine the finished image.

Variants are different: to make white spots on the fly agaric or black on the ladybug, a pattern on the sarafan for a paper doll, a droplet of rain coming from the cloud. As a result, the kid, after making only a few primakivany paint to the sheet, gets a beautiful picture, which he did. He is satisfied with the result of his work and is proud of the craftsmanship.

Drawing a finger with the kids means using safe colors. If we consider that special paints are expensive, this kind of entertainment turns out to be expensive. However, it is not. In fact, purchase kits do not have to be used. Suitable for any food coloring, added to a safe or even edible creamy consistency. The basis can be yoghurt, semolina, flour or starch, mixed with water and vegetable oil in certain proportions. Such simple ingredients are in the kitchen of every mistress. In addition, finger drawing can be performed using foods with bright juice, for example, beets or blueberries.

What colors to choose

Manufacturers of artistic materials and products for children offer a wide selection of sets for this method of artistic creation. Ready-made sets of workpieces for work with several small jars of colors corresponding to a picture of shades are on sale. Drawing with your fingers becomes even easier and more interesting.

Variants with stamps on the caps are offered. The volumes of containers with content vary significantly, as well as their number in the set. There are sets of two or four colors of 120 ml, 80 ml. If there are many colors, then each will be 25 ml each. It is better to start with a couple of jars. When the technique is mastered, it will be possible to add shades.

Drawing for children with fingers is a very unusual activity. Since it starts with kids who can quite taste the paints on taste, it is permissible to use only natural pigments. Here, the best option will be home-made paints, berries, beets. Special sets for children for up to one year are sold, however, firstly, they are badly laundered from hands and cloth, and, secondly, a specific composition on the package may not be indicated. In order not to risk the baby's health, it's worth spending a little time and making paints yourself. It is not difficult. Choose any recipe from the available ones and be calm for your young artist.

What subjects to offer

For children up to a year it is important to try the process itself, develop a hand, get new sensations and impressions. At this age, there is no specific subject image. Drawing in the younger group with fingers can include such tasks:

• Dorisovyvanie samples with colorful specks;
• Tracks from prints;
• Spent rays, stems, rain;
• Using a palm as a stamp.

Older children will invent complex subjects, making up fingerprints of flowers, cars, animal figurines.

So, drawing for children with fingers is not only an interesting, but also very useful creative developing process. Non-traditional materials and techniques are always attractive. Given that for babies safe paints can be made by hand, and with large children using ordinary gouache, this activity will be relatively cheap entertainment.