"My little ancestor, how did you paint the wall like this again? ! "
Is this sentence familiar?
It is often heard that many parents have a headache and say, "Children like to doodle, but they don't listen to anything. I can't recognize the white walls and furniture at home. I really don't know what to do! "
Jay Chou is no exception. He has been writing for many years, and as a result, he was stunned by his daughter's sudden "creative desire":
Sometimes, the more children are not allowed to doodle, the more they have to find ways to create opportunities:
Do you feel more headache when you see this?
In fact, graffiti is good for children's physical and mental development. Practice shows that children who like graffiti often have imagination, expressiveness and creativity beyond their peers, and are more likely to achieve something in the future literary field.
Why can't children sit quietly and draw a picture, but they like to scribble?
We can find the answer from the research of the famous children's art educator Victor Longfield.
In his book Creativity and Psychological Growth, he mentioned that children's graffiti can be divided into four stages:
1. Indiscriminate graffiti (1.5-2 years old): At this stage, children can't clearly understand their behavior, and they may just poke a few dots or some unconscious lines on the paper.
2. Control graffiti (2-2.5 years old): Children will repeatedly draw irregular lines up and down. Repetition is the characteristic of this stage, and constantly drawing lines will enhance the coordination and control of children's movements.
3. Circular graffiti (2.5-3 years old): At this stage, drawing a circle requires stronger athletic ability and more complicated movements, so the baby will show higher control over the movements.
4. Named graffiti (3-3.5 years old): Children associate action with imagination, from simple muscle movement to thinking in images. At this stage, children will begin to express what they are drawing. It is normal for some children to doodle for a long time, which may last until they are 5 years old.
It turns out that children are still in the stage of graffiti 1 and 2 when they are young, so the painted works are meaningless graffiti to adults.
But if you are patient, you will find that children can only draw some lines a few months ago, and now they can draw all kinds of shapes end to end!
Different graffiti performances at each stage mean that children's different abilities are being improved. As parents, we should treat graffiti correctly and never stop it blindly. Protecting children's interest in graffiti is to protect their nature.
What benefits can graffiti bring?
In the several stages of graffiti just mentioned, children gradually realize that they are drawing lines and shapes, and the cooperation between hands and eyes is getting better and better.
Next, he can choose the object to draw according to his own memory, then use his brain to guide his hand to draw, and then use his eyes to judge whether the drawn shape is to his liking.
The whole process is becoming more and more complicated, which means that children's mental and sensory coordination ability has been exercised.
When Huang Lei rehearses the drama Peach Blossom Spring, he often takes Duoduo to the scene, so Duoduo can remember almost every actor's modeling, clothing, characteristics and so on. When I get home, I will use a brush to record the scenes I see. Each character has its own characteristics and will not be repeated.
Because the child's painting content is a kind of restoration of real memory, in order to better express what he wants to paint in his heart, the child will carefully observe the characteristics of the painting object and keep it in his mind.
When my daughter was a child, she especially liked to play the "memory test" game with me. For example, I asked, "What color are the flowers we saw on the road just now?" The daughter will draw the flowers she sees with a brush.
Then, it was my daughter's turn to ask me, "What does the kitten we saw look like?" I also took a brush and wrote it down.
In order to "beat me", she will observe the scenery along the way more carefully the next day. The more times she observes, the stronger her memory will be.
There was a video circulating on the Internet before, and a group of parents who graduated from colleges and universities came to do summer homework for their children. As a result, nobody actually passed.
Seeing the answer, the adults were surprised: "I have no idea!"
It is often difficult for adults to understand children's world because we are used to making judgments with rational thinking.
But in the children's world, the sun can be square, the grass can be blue, everything is full of childlike interest, and graffiti can protect and stimulate children's creativity and imagination.
Sun Li once said in Weibo: "Before I tried to stop them, Mr. Deng would stop me and say not to affect their creation. The wallpaper can be changed, but the inspiration will be erased. It's right to think about it, so now we have a lot of limited graffiti furniture in our house. "
Yes, wallpaper can be changed and walls can be repainted, but imagination and inspiration are priceless.
As children grow up and have more and more self-awareness, they will express their views on things around them through graffiti, which is the way for children to show their inner world.
Research shows that children who like painting tend to have better expressive ability.
Faye Wong's daughter Li Yan is a maverick second-generation star. She is very good at expressing herself through catwalks, live broadcasts and videos.
At the same time, she is also a child who loves painting. She held her first art exhibition when she was 6 years old. Li said: "Every painting has a story behind it. My daughter likes to communicate with me in this way. "
Graffiti is a special "language" for children, which can help children vent their emotions and express their feelings. So it is also a bridge between children and parents.
Some things that children don't know how to express in words will be expressed by painting.
I once received a message from my mother that one day I accidentally saw my daughter's picture book and found such a picture:
Drawing paper is divided into two parts. On the left is the blue sky and white clouds, and a happy family of three is holding hands. On the right, there are dark clouds. A little girl is crying alone and looks lonely.
She felt very guilty, because she and her husband were busy at work and made several appointments to take her daughter to the amusement park, but they failed to make it. Finally, they had to buy new toys to make up for their daughter.
It was not until she saw this painting that she realized that such "compensation" was far from enough. What children really want is the company of their parents.
Therefore, watching children's graffiti as much as possible and understanding the content behind it can help us judge the child's psychological state and give him corresponding support.
How should parents treat their children's graffiti correctly?
Instead of chasing and intercepting children when they are doodling everywhere, it is better to create a special graffiti space for children to freely spread their inspiration in this land of Xiaotian.
For example, you can leave a wall in your child's room, paste graffiti paper on it, or buy a blackboard and prepare painting tools for your child to create at will.
But at the same time, we should also make a "three chapters of the contract" with the children, stipulating that graffiti can only be done in this area. If you go beyond the scope and draw on other furniture and walls, you will be punished accordingly.
In this way, parents not only save trouble and effort, but also give their children a creative space to play contentedly.
Children's graffiti inspiration often comes from daily life, so parents can often take their children to experience nature, such as zoos and botanical gardens. And provide them with more materials.
And consciously guide children to observe and describe, such as going to the zoo to see giraffes, and let children try to describe the characteristics of giraffes: long neck, spots on their bodies and so on.
After returning home, help the children recall these characteristics together, and then show them with a brush. Slowly, children will observe the small details of life more carefully.
Lu Yi once exposed the paintings of his two daughters in Weibo, and the figures and animals were lifelike. Netizens marveled at the children's control over colors, lines and composition. In fact, it is precisely because children observe carefully enough.
Sometimes parents may wish to participate in the process of children's graffiti, regain their innocence and create with their children, which can not only draw closer to their children, but also create unique parent-child memories.
Sun Li said that when she is not working, she will play and draw with her children:
There is also a father from France who likes to create works with his two sons, combining the children's imagination with his father's painting skills, so this precious album appeared:
Children's paintings look incredible again, and don't judge them with adults' thinking. Imaginative works are the best embodiment of imagination.
As parents, we must listen patiently, encourage children to explain their creativity in their own language and exercise their language expression ability.
Then give children sincere and specific praise and encourage them to try new works more actively.
Some children like to play with brushes and painting tools, or grab food with their hands that have just touched paint, which will cause eating by mistake.
Therefore, parents should choose non-toxic painting tools and pigments for their children, and tell them not to put these things in their mouths, wash their hands immediately after painting, and so on, so that children can create in a safe environment.
What misunderstandings should we pay attention to in the face of children's graffiti?
There is a story that everyone must be familiar with: 1968, a three-year-old girl named Ruth in Nevada told her mother that she knew the first letter "O" on the gift box. Her mother was surprised and asked her how she met. Ruth told her mother that Miss Vera in kindergarten taught her.
Unexpectedly, the mother immediately complained to Miss Vera's kindergarten on the grounds that it deprived Ruth of her imagination.
Because my daughter could have described "O" as the sun, apples, football, eggs and other round things, but after teaching her about "O" in kindergarten, Ruth lost this imagination.
Three months later, the result of this case was that the kindergarten lost the case.
Venus once said: "Art education is a subtle process, and it is also a process of storing energy. It is to cultivate children's cultivation, aesthetics, conduct and quality, so that children can slowly learn to appreciate the beauty of life, the value of life, and perceive the colorful world, thus enriching their lives and achieving their own lives. "
Therefore, parents should protect their children's enthusiasm for graffiti and guide them in the right way. Don't let children think that doodling is a wrong thing. After all, a dirty wall can still be brushed, and once a child's imagination is stifled, it will never come back.
Some parents think that their children's graffiti is not like four, so they will point it out directly. There are also some impatient parents who can't draw a car well after watching their children for a long time, so they simply teach their children to draw by hand.
However, what is very simple for adults is complicated for children. Children will feel frustrated when they see their parents draw so easily. Over time, they may lose interest in painting.
Children in the graffiti stage are generally young, and mastering painting skills is not the task at this stage. Parents should not over-intervene and guide, nor should they demand too much from their children's works.
Finally, Miss Xiaoqi wants to quote Picasso's famous saying:
"I can paint like a master in a short time, but I must learn to paint like a child all my life."
Encouraging children to doodle and protecting their imagination is to help them create a future full of possibilities.