Sharpening Children’s Skills of Shape Drawing
The fourth year your old son has now left the “doodles.” Since he began making graffiti line at age 18-24 months, then now with the more skilled and powerful control over body movement, in this case the fingers, the four years has been able to apply a straight line to draw a variety of forms.
Copying. It turned out to establish a vertical or horizontal straight line drawing; there must be some conditions that support children. Maturation takes at least eye-hand coordination and ability to grasp and move the crayon or pencil correctly.
Although since entering the second year, kid have started to recognize graffiti activity, and he can draw a straight line or scribbled circle, but only at the age of 4 years children begin to use these skills in drawing activities.
Because the eye-hand coordination-both his fingers and his fingers had been “strong”, then he began to draw the line firmly using pencil, crayon or other stationery then create a variety of geometric shapes such as squares, boxes or triangles. Usually starts with copying the existing image, the fourth year will develop skills to create an image that has a form that consists of straight lines.
Furthermore, in line with the development of skill and imagination, the fourth year will apply in the form of line drawings that tell about the experience, feeling or imagination.
Useful exercise. There are easy ways to support the four years sharpening his skills to make a straight line. Try giving him a chance to draw with your fingers. Provide a safe dyes, usually non-toxic fingerpaint written, and media for drawing. Media that need to be constantly drawing you provided is a big drawing paper that you can paste around the wall.
Of course the speed of fine motor development of every child is different, so maybe your friend’s child already has the skill while your child is still “limping along”. No need to worry and anxiety, give it a chance to practice as much as possible. If you find any of a delay in fine motor development is sufficiently striking that it could not hurt to consult with experts, such a development psychologist.