How to encourage children to create an easy pen drawing through different types of art techniques, with the support of parents and teachers? There are some great tips for this, which I hope will work well for you and help develop your child's creativity and imagination.

After many years of working with children, I know that not all toddlers and older people like to color and have patience for it. Moreover, many children like to create on their own, without any restrictions or patterns, and I would like to devote today's post to this topic.

Let the child create his drawing without restrictions

The first thing that comes to mind is to let the child create their drawing without restrictions, templates and constant reminders of what can be done better. Instead, let's pay attention to what worked well. For example the composition, the choice of colors, a drawing idea, or an interesting line, there will always be something that will stand out in a given work.

Let them create in different formats, sometimes on several cards taped together or on colored cards, because each of these attempts allows you to discover new layers of creativity. Let's also give the child a variety of good quality tools : soft pencils, colored pastels or perfectly covering markers are enough to start a great evolutionary adventure.

Get your child to create a drawing with ideas for artwork

If a child creates a drawing with an easy pen, say A4, think how interesting it would be to see what happens next in that picture to the left, right, and maybe even top or down. Try gluing the pages and encourage your child to develop their illustration. It greatly stimulates the imagination of toddlers and even older children and adults. The child can thus create all the ski infrastructure in the mountains, hotels, slopes, taverns, ski slopes, parking . the possibilities of interpretation are numerous.

Select modern creative tools for children

Pencils should be chosen according to the age and skills of the child. They should draw quite smoothly, without any effort, and their colors should leave the appropriate saturation in the drawing. Pencils that are too hard and with poorly saturated colors will make drawing difficult for the child. Also, they will strain their hands more and therefore may discourage children from continuing to create. Unfortunately, poor quality pencils often break and crumble, which can make a little artist even more impatient or even irritated.

That's why it's worth choosing accessories that have been tried and tested and constantly improved for years, such as magic pens available at Draw'n drop. Indeed, it is important to understand how the quality of art supplies makes a difference and encourages children to create new works.

Also, mixing different artistic techniques and using different tools allows you to achieve really interesting results. Try some of our proposals and I am convinced that your children will create beautiful and original works. The combination of markers, pastels, pencils and paints gives amazing end results.

Go in search of inspiration for children

If you are looking for inspiration, tasks and interesting games, you can find them on the net. On a site specially designed for children, you will find several activities, including compilation exercises, writing tips and memory games.

Thanks to these tasks, your child can develop his creative abilities in an interesting way. Parents and teachers will also find their account in the sections containing the novelties in the field of the development of the child, as well as ideas of activities to stimulate the creativity of the children.

Then try to offer your child to create a drawing with an easy pen reflecting a night image or an underwater world. For this purpose, ask your toddler to create a drawing using colored pencils. Then paint the card with black, blue or navy watercolor paint, and it will cover a nice white background, leaving pencil marks on top.

Play as a designer

Cut the shape of a t-shirt, shoe, handbag or even a cap from the sheet. Encourage your child to design a graphic or image on the cut sheet. Soon you will see how amazing works will be created. It is also an excellent entertainment proposal for preschoolers or children in summer camps.

In the scraping technique, you will need pencils or oil pastels as well as black or acrylic paint. The fun is to paint the whole sheet of paper with colored stripes, then cover the sheet with a thick layer of black paint. After it dries, you can apply another coat of paint if you want a completely black background, or start scratching it right away.

You can create a striped image with various tools, for example a toothpick, scissors or any other sharp point, for example with a paperclip.

Draw your self-portrait in color

Finally, you can ask your child to draw their self-portrait. You can do this by drawing yourself in front of the mirror or by printing a photo of your child and, depending on the observation, the toddler can try to recreate the most characteristic elements of his face.

Home gallery of the work of a small artist

It is also worth thinking about a home gallery with works for children. This incredibly motivates children (little artists) to continue creating and gives great satisfaction and pride. I remember as a child I had my own gallery of artwork in the long hallway of our family apartment and it was great fun for me!

What does the seemingly ordinary drawing give a child?

Free drawing instead of precise coloring brings many advantages to the child that we do not think about on a daily basis. It is one of the simplest games and the cheapest creative activities, but extremely important for the development of our little one.

•   develops imagination and spatial planning
•   it boosts self-confidence and skills
•   trains hand-eye coordination and teaches the correct grip
•   trains memory and perception,
•   teaches concentration, precision and observation of the world
• allows the child to put their emotions on paper and allows parents to better understand their child.