Drawing The Basic Shapes

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From a very early age children quickly recognise basic shapes.  Spotting squares, rectangles, circles and triangles can swiftly become an entertaining game, relieving the tedium of trips to the supermarket or garden centre, long car journeys and waits at the doctors.  It can be a handy way of diverting attention and avoiding a tantrum, with lots of praise as the reward.

 

Drawing basic shapes provides a very good grounding for progression to drawing more complicated objects such as pets and cars.  By encouraging your child to find basic shapes in the everyday things around them you can help them master the initial rudiments of drawing.  It is easy for you, takes little time and no preparation and is a fun way for your child to learn.

 

Once they have mastered the basic shapes they are ready to make them into drawings – a simple circle (it does not have to be exactly round) soon becomes a face, a square becomes a jack in the box, triangles become the sails of a boat, a rectangle becomes a door to a house. The Easy Art For Kids CD-Rom is full of ideas on how to change basic two-dimensional shapes into interesting and fun objects.

 

A minimum of art material is required, just a pencil, rubber (eraser) and pencil sharpener to begin with.  Colouring equipment can be crayons, colouring pencils or felt-tip pens.  Then later they might like to progress to painting and cutting and sticking.

 

Most images from the over 50 page CD-ROM can be printed out individually, so they may be used by more than one child at a time, so no arguments! The programme also contains a game to help stretch your child’s imagination and pictures for just colouring that will also keep younger siblings amused.

 

Once your child is confident with the basic shapes they will be ready to move on to the next stage – see Pets.

 

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