Why coloring and drawing are essential for children
Drawing or coloring is essential, both in the lives of children and adults. Why is it so important to do this? Here are only an irregular of the many causes:
Self-expression: Drawing on a white "canvas" (sheet of writing) is a mode for children and adults to express themselves. You can speak a ton about how a person feels by the pictures they draw, the colors they use, etc. A child drawing skulls and different alarming objects might cry escape for use, the only way he understands how.
A child who prefers hearts, suns, and other cheerful objects can express contentment and love in the only way he knows how. It's essential to give children a chance to express themselves through drawing and coloring. For kids, not all children express themselves through words and writing.
Color Recognition: Many children receive their first (and sometimes only) exposure to the color wheel and art through crayons, markers, and markers. Learning to tell the difference between red, pink, green, and so on might not seem like a big deal, but kids who use crayons or markers early have a more effortless instant understanding of colors, color design, and color mixing.
Therapy: For many people, coloring is therapeutic. By coloring a drawing, they express their feelings, frustrations, and other emotions: this is the excellent power of children's coloring pages. An angry child might choose to scribble a sun with a black crayon until the image is no longer visible.
A child who cares about the organization or wants things a certain way can meticulously put color between each line. A child who wants to vent their day's frustration can overflow everywhere. Coloring can be a method to rest, behind a busy day of academy work, after the stress of a day at school or job, etc.
Catch/Control: Many children learn to hold a marker, marker, or crayon before holding a pen to write. For many children, a crayon is the first object they have to "hold" in a certain way to control it. Many children learn to hold a pencil when they do their first coloring.
I believe it's essential for kids to produce good hold and power of a pencil, to assist them in learning and own other writing instruments well. All the skills they have learned from coloring will help when it comes time to work on the calligraphy.
Coordination: Coordination is someday another important task we can understand from color. It takes a lot of hand-eye coordination to color on a coloring page. From the correct way to hold the pencil to recognizing which color to use to sharpening pencils… these coordinations develop essential skills that will last a lifetime for children.
Motor Skill Building: Every time a child does something like coloring a picture, playing with blocks, painting, etc., they think they are having fun, as they are developing motor skills at an elementary level that they will expand later in life. Coloring with crayons, playing with playdough or beads, and tearing paper all help strengthen and develop hand muscles.
These skills are critical to helping with later activities like writing, lifting, and other activities they will encounter as they grow. These activities require the muscles of the arms and hands to work together to manipulate objects and perform the task.
Concentration: Concentration is another "big lesson" learned from coloring. A classroom can be a place where a child may find it challenging to concentrate and stay engaged with the task. Coloring can help them develop this ability. This allows them to develop concentration and focus on skills that will help them throughout their entire schooling and lives…
Accept the limits: Another thing kids learn from coloring pages is how to accept boundaries. While a preschooler may scribble a whole sheet of colors with no respect for boundaries (lines on the coloring page), as they grow older, they will begin to respect those lines and make an effort to color between them.
While I encourage free drawing as often as possible so that children are free to express themselves, for many preschoolers, kids' coloring pages are their only exposure to printed boundaries. This early exposure to boundaries in coloring will help when handwriting time arrives, and the child will have to respect the boundaries of the pre-printed writing lines on the sheet of paper.
Milestone: This is the last little "significance" of coloring that I will mention here, and that is that coloring between the lines is a milestone, a sense of accomplishment, the first step to a successful college career for many children. For many children coloring between the lines is just as important as counting to 10, counting to 100, reciting the alphabet, learning times tables, etc.
It's a critical stage that says "yes, I can," which gives children pride and a feeling of self-esteem. It also helps them feel accepted in a society that is often quick to judge and slow to react. This sense of accomplishment will carry them through life and help them not give up so easily when something new happens.
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