Drawing is always fun but it is esepecially important in the early years of school.
Drawing can help:
Develop fine motor skills:
- Drawing requires children to use the small muscles in their hands and fingers, which helps develop fine motor skills.
- These skills are essential for writing and to complete other tasks in the classroom - playing math games and engaging with hands-on learning for concepts like measurement, space and geometry.
Enhance creativity:
- Drawing allows children to express themselves creatively and to explore their imaginations.
- It helps children develop problem-solving skills, as they experiment, make choices and decisions to represent their ideas.
Promote self-expression:
- Drawing gives children a way to communicate their thoughts and feelings without using words.
- It can also be a therapeutic activity for children who are struggling with difficult emotions.
Here is a project you can do easily with paper, crayons and watercolors - an orange!
Here are the steps:
After drawing one your students can draw a whole page full and then add a tree foliage background or cut them out for display.
If you love teaching action and counting rhymes in your learning program, you may also like my new rhyme: Orange Tree. It's included in the bundle of rhymes and is a valuable tool for math while integrating reading, language and listening.
This rhymes combine rhyme and actions in a fun and engaging way to explore numbers to ten and counting forward and back.
I hope you have a great day at school today and you hear your students say things like:
- "Yay, I love art!"
- "What are we going to make?"
- "Do I get to use the glitter?"