What are the stages of preschool children's drawing development

There are generally 3 stages in the development of preschool children's drawing: the scribbling stage, the symbolic stage, and the figurative stage.

1. Scribbling Stage

Toddlers generally begin drawing by scribbling. At this time, because the child's hand muscles are weak, the picture appears to be very "messy", mostly crooked, intermittent lines or dots, and the direction is not certain. They have no forethought or conception before painting, and they do not pay attention to shape, color and composition, but treat doodling as a kind of game, enjoying the rhythmic pleasure of movement brought by doodling action, which is reflected in the messy lines on the screen. When children show this kind of behavior, we can provide children with different materials of drawing paper and brushes to satisfy their desire to explore, and at the same time, help children to build up the consciousness of "only drawing on paper or a fixed place (such as the wall of graffiti)". Instead of preventing them from doing so, they will lose interest in drawing.

2. Symbolic Stage

With the further development of their cognitive and manual abilities, toddlers are able to draw circles of different sizes and lines of varying lengths and lengths more freely, and a wide range of irregular combinations of shapes have also appeared, especially noticeable in the second semester of the primary class and the first semester of the intermediate class. In the process of drawing, they will show that they connect some kind of irregular shapes that they happen to draw with their life experience in order to compare it with what they think it looks like, and they often give anthropomorphism to their works. For example, the flowers are laughing happily ah, the tree is sick and crying ah ...... this time adults have to stand in the emotional perspective of young children to feel their works.

3. Image Stage

This is the period when children begin to really use the method of painting to purposefully and consciously reproduce the things around them and express their own experiences, and it is also the most energetic period of children's painting. Drawing large pictures of things that impress or interest them is a distinctive characteristic of young children during this period of drawing. Therefore, when expressing their own ideas and certain things, they usually draw very intuitively based on their own impressions and feelings about things, so many things will be drawn exaggeratedly but vividly.

Toddler art: Toddler art refers to the plastic arts activities and appreciation activities engaged in by preschool children aged 2, 6 and 7. Toddler art works express their impressions of the things around them, and express their aspirations and aesthetic pursuits.

Art for young children is a kind of practice, which requires the children's whole body and mind, from the perception of external things to the development of emotions, to shape the image with their own hands using a certain medium, which is a complete process of internal and external interactions, and the children need to utilize all their mental abilities and enthusiasm, in order to obtain development.

Source: Baidu Encyclopedia - Early Childhood Art