Posted by
aquagul
16 yrs ago
Hi, can anyone tell me tips on how to motivate 3 year old to colour. His classmates do much better than him. Some are unbelievably good.
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Does he love Thomas the tank engine, Sponge Bob, Disney, Pooh bear?
You can pick his favorite ones, download pictures from the internet and reward his beautiful colouring with stickers and praise!
Perhaps you could even make a weekly 'picture for grandma' event, which gets posted off.
Always remember to praise his rotten colouring (within reason!) and never be negative if he's not doing so well. If he feels pressured to colour within the lines but physically can't, it will only discourage him.
Perhaps another way to look at the situation is that not all kids love to colour. Perhaps he might like cutting paper and glueing? I worked as a preschool teacher before being a mum and we had as many kids who loved puzzles but hated to draw as visa versa.
Good luck!
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4G
16 yrs ago
Also pls never compare his colouring to any other childs ,not even lament about it to other parents
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whether he's colouring 'nicely' is our adult standard.
maybe he thinks the way he's doing it is beautiful. praise him. ask him if he thinks it's beautiful. he's expressing himself artistically, try not to penalize him for it. he gets enough of that from teachers at school. when he's at home, let him enjoy the colouring experience.
we don't want to create cookie cutter children where all their suns are yellow, all their skies are blue, and so forth. let him be creative. it'll help him in other learning areas.
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So is it ok for a 5 year old who doesnt like following 'general rules' - sun is yellow and leaves are green etc... My girl likes colouring. I praise her within reason all the time and never correct the way she colours. One day I went to a colouring class for a trial. At the end of the lesson, the teacher said to me that she was ok in colouring but she shldnt pick up any colours she liked and ignored the general 'rule'. I was a bit shocked and never went back because I think children shld be free at this stage. May be I was wrong?
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4G
16 yrs ago
I absolutely agree with Cara
Even when I did arts and crafts classes,I would just let them do what they liked with the materials ,because that is the main purpose of art , and the children would be so very delighted to realise what they were capable of !!!
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didy
16 yrs ago
If you think he is finding coloring difficult, what you can do is to help color the edges of a shape, so he only needs to fill out the center bit. Gradually you can fade your help when he get better handling the pen.
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If he's happy, let him get on with it- Adele's right, you can download all sorts, we used to get stuff from cbeebies when my daughter was that age. Mighty's story reminds of when I was teaching in Japan and all the kids coloured the sun red, cos they were told to (notice the Japanese flag!) - I was so tempted to tell them that the western sun is yellow & they MUST do yellow suns in their English books, just to be subversive!
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my son was not interested in colouring until he turned 5. I must admit that his colouring skills is WAYYYYY behind his peers but having said that my son can draw in great details building and services, robotic and skeletal details. Children excel in one area. Don't see it as a limitation but as an individual character. Praise him for his efforts no matter how terrible.
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