Coloring, at first sight, seems like an ordinary drawing album with pictures that need to be painted. However, if one gets aggravated in detail, then such a simple thing makes a great contribution to the development of the child. This applies to the development of creative abilities and not only.
It would seem that such a simple lesson is coloring books or pictures, and what contribution it makes to the development of the baby!
Undoubtedly, the main benefit that children’s coloring books bring is the development of fine motor skills and the preparation of a hand for writing. Many popular comics coloring books are available in the market and children really love doing it as they already adore those comic characters. So, its important for children to understand this stuff.
What else is useful for children’s coloring?
1. The kid learns to choose the right colors, to combine and combine them, and this contributes to the formation and manifestation of taste.
2. In the process of coloring, the little one remembers the forms well, namely, how this or that character or object is drawn.
3. Using coloring books, the child demonstrates his artistic abilities, expresses himself.
4. Such an activity well disciplines the baby, teaches you to diligently perform monotonous work.
5. Painting pictures develops skills such as bringing the job you have started to the end, being assiduous, accurate, attentive, independent.
6. Children’s coloring books help tiny fidgets calm down, relax and plunge into the world of fantasy.
7. Coloring pictures helps the child learn to concentrate.
8. It is proved that children who have a well-developed imagination are able to come up with various stories, so they do not lend themselves to such problems as childhood depression. And drawing and painting well develop the imagination and learn to use it.
9. Coloring is an excellent tool for spending time together between children and parents, because adults are also not averse to relaxing and morally relaxing. And such joint creativity brings together well, calms the nervous system, allows you to escape from various disturbing thoughts.
10. With the help of coloring, you can learn not only colors, but also letters, geometric shapes, numbers.
11. Today a large selection of colors is presented, for example, with stickers, drafts, strokes, strokes, which contribute to the development of a child at different ages.
12. Coloring is a great way to switch the child’s attention from many problems and stressful situations.
Types of Coloring
All colors differ among themselves with pictures, but they can be conditionally divided into two categories:
Coloring for boys;
Coloring for girls.
If the first option is mainly: equipment, vehicles, robots, then the second – flowers, castles, princesses, dolls, dresses. Coloring also differs in a century-old category:
For the smallest: large, not complex pictures;
For children from 3 to 5 years old;
For older children.
The older the child, the more difficult the drawing in the coloring. It is filled with different elements and requires the use of many colors, which in turn contributes to the mental development of the child.
What coloring to choose
In this case, you do not need to choose for the girl only coloring with dolls. Psychologists say that a child should try himself in different genres. And therefore, your task as parents is not to narrow the child’s interests.
The only moment: the drawings should correspond to the age of the baby. That’s why, for starters, it’s worth starting from the simplest colors using one shade and gradually moving on to more complex ones. If you notice that the child is not yet ready for complex drawings and it’s hard to navigate in several colors, then you should return to the previous coloring.
