Interesting ways to draw for kids

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Miracle drawings

Salt. Make a sketch on paper first. Moisten it with water with a brush, sprinkle with salt, wait until it absorbs water, sprinkle excess salt. When everything dries, draw the missing elements and color. Salt is good for drawing dragonflies, birds, jellyfish, butterflies, snow, smoke.

Wax. Prepare a sheet with animal silhouettes that you “draw” with a candle in advance. By painting over the drawing with paint, the child will unexpectedly “create” images of animals.

Foam rubber or sponge. Having dipped a sponge in thick gouache, a child can draw landscapes, bouquets of flowers, lilac branches, apple trees.

A bunch of pencils. Tape a large sheet of paper securely. Gather colored pencils in a bundle so that the sharpened ends are at the same level. Have your child draw.

Crayons and starch. Pour a little starch onto a sheet of paper and spread evenly over the surface with your hands. Invite your child to draw with crayons on a slippery surface. It’s best to use the base colors of the crayons so they give you new colors.

Colored glue. Pour the glue into empty bottles, add a few drops of a different color to each, and you are ready to create artworks. Draw with colored glue on dark paper using the “drip” technique.

Gauze swab. Invite your child to dip a gauze swab into the paint and draw clouds, soap bubbles, snowdrifts, ducklings, butterflies. The missing details must be completed with a brush or felt-tip pen.
Corn cobs. Think of an image. Dip the cob in the paint and roll it over a sheet of clean paper. Make an imprint with the “tail” of the corncob.

Blotography. Let the kid drip paint on the sheet, tilt it in different directions, and then finish drawing the blot so that some kind of image is obtained. Or the child dips the brush into the paint, then puts the inkblot on a sheet of paper and folds the sheet in half so that the “blot” is printed on the second half of the sheet. Then he unfolds the sheet and tries to understand who or what the drawing looks like.

Dot drawing. The kid, with a light pressure of the pencil, outlines the preliminary outline of the object, then fills the space inside it with a dot technique using felt-tip pens or pencils of different colors.

Spray painting. The most important thing here is to master the technique of “spraying”. On a dry toothbrush with fairly stiff bristles, apply gouache, a little less than you usually put toothpaste. The consistency of paint is slightly thicker than paste, so water is usually not needed here. Hold the brush in your left hand with the bristles down at a distance of 3-4 cm from the paper and scrape the bristles towards you with a stick. Very beautiful multi-colored “spray” (salute) and yellow-red (golden autumn) on a white sheet; white “splash” on a dark blue background (winter landscape).

Foot drawing. Tape a sheet of paper to the floor. Put a pencil between your toes and ask your child to draw something. You can create simultaneously with two feet on one sheet of paper. Tape a large sheet of paper to the wall and ask your child to draw something on it while lying on their back.