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Art activities are powerful means for promoting children development. These encourage perception, motoric, language and cognitive skills<\/a><\/span>,… If you want to organize art activities for toddlers, you should meet artistic development in toddlers and get creative ideas. <\/p>\n

Artistic development in toddlers<\/span><\/h2>\n

Every child goes through certain phases of artistic development. Each phase is upgraded to the previous one. Of course, artistic creativity develops at a different pace in every child. Primarily, that depends on the achieved development level of perception, hand motoric and eye-hand coordination. However, that depends on the child’s temperament and experience as well. Some toddler scribbles the lines uncertain, another energetic of slowly, …<\/p>\n

Age from 12 to 18 months<\/span><\/h3>\n

At the age of 12 to 18 months, children start to scrabble with a pencil imitating the movements of adults. Holding the pencil with the entire fist and turning down a thumb, they are able to leave a pencil trace on the paper but clumsy.<\/p>\n

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The first scrabbling is a functional play<\/a> in which children exercise movements and explore the paper and pencil. So, when a toddler drills a paper pulling the lines on it, actually develops his\/her creativity.<\/p>\n

Toddlers on this age scribble holding a pencil cramped and without moving their wrist. Often, they look around while scribbling, so often scribble the walls, floor, furniture… That isn’t their insolence. Children at this age just don’t give importance to a result of scrabbling. They give importance to this activity itself. Therefore, you should give instructions to a child where he\/she should scribble and where shouldn’t.<\/p>\n

Scrabbling lasts until the third year. At the beginning of the third year, there is still a need for spontaneous scrabbling, but it’s more complex. The movements become more and more secure, and the pressure on the paper become weaker.<\/p>\n

Age from 18 to 36 months<\/span><\/h3>\n

From 18th months, children become independent and progress in general development. Progress is also evident in the development of creativity. Toddlers on this age scribble lines safer by moving brunt from the shoulder to the cubital, then to the hand fingers and finally to the hand wrist.<\/p>\n

Toddlers first draw vertical, then horizontal, circular and dashed lines. The lines are grouped in one place, most often in the middle of the paper.<\/p>\n

They begin to control scribbling. Actually, scribbling is no longer the result of the hand action and toddlers begin to achieve visual control over the lines.<\/p>\n

At the end of the scrabbling phase, toddlers notice a random similarity between their scrabble and some object. Then begin to give the names to the scrabblings which they draw.<\/p>\n

According to these developmental features, we realize that this age is the ideal for the starting promoting of creativity in children.<\/p>\n

The roles of adults in art activities for toddlers<\/span><\/h2>\n

Material Selection<\/span><\/h3>\n

You need to provide a variety of materials so that a child can choose on and by what they will draw or what they will design. By a variety of materials, you can give the child more sensory experience. Of course, the material should be in accordance with the capabilities of the child. For art activities, you can prepare soft graphite pens, wax crayons, pastels, solid multicolour papers for rigid hand movements, drawing board, collage paper, clay, dough, …<\/p>\n

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It’s not necessary a lot of money for providing material for toddler’s art activities. For that purpose, you can also use old newspapers, napkins, natural materials such as sand, flour, … You can make with your toddler different animals or dolls from natural materials (acorns, twigs, fruit and vegetable, …) Also, you can make together different rattles with rice, plastic bottles, jackstones,…  Children should split and crowd papers during art activities. Also, by paper, you can make balls and confetti from different papers. Also, in the presence of a child, you can make planes, dragons, boats, boats, etc. <\/p>\n