What should I do if my baby likes to scribble at home?

Babies like to scribble on the walls everywhere, which is very annoying for mothers. So why do babies like to scribble? What should we do if babies scribble? How to treat baby graffiti correctly? The following editor will give you a detailed introduction.

Why do babies like to scribble?

Babies between 1 and a half and 2 years old cannot control their small hand muscles freely. In the process of scribbling, their hand-eye coordination ability is well exercised. From drawing a crooked straight line outside the paper to a closed circle, the baby's hand-eye coordination ability has been greatly improved. Graffiti is the most authentic expression of the baby's inner world. When they gradually have self-awareness, they vent their emotions through drawing, and express their understanding and views on the things around them. Parents can better communicate with their babies through graffiti and understand their hearts. Graffiti is a game that babies never get tired of. Almost all babies like to draw. They can get freedom and happiness from random lines and colorful colors. Graffiti is a display of baby's imagination and creativity. No matter what major your child will study or what job he will do in the future, he can open his mind through drawing.

What to do if your baby scribbles

Give your baby space

Create a "territory" for them, where they can scribble and paint as they please. Also, make it clear to your baby that if they scribble and paint in other places, they will be punished, and they will not be praised no matter how good their paintings are.

Treat graffiti correctly

For babies, mastering painting skills is not the main purpose of their graffiti, so parents should not simply judge their baby's work by "like" or "not like". Observe your baby's expression with a childlike heart and let graffiti become a happy time in the baby's growth process.

Take your baby with you to observe life

Always encourage your baby to use a brush to show what he sees and feels. Whether the content of the graffiti is a small tree on the roadside or the baby's beloved teddy bear, it is inseparable from the observation and experience of life itself. What parents can do is to enrich the baby's life content and cultivate the baby's sensitivity. Only with a heart that can be touched can the baby grow up happily.

How to treat graffiti correctly

First, create conditions. Buy the tools necessary for children to "graffiti", such as chalk, pencils, colored pens, crayons, small blackboards, picture books (such as "Fun Drawings for Children") and exercise books; teach children how to hold the pen and how to use the pen; tell them to draw on the blackboard and on the notebook, not on books, walls or other things, and develop good habits. Secondly, encourage sincerely. Children like to be praised, and they should be encouraged no matter how they draw. The purpose of encouragement is to affirm their motivation to draw and promote the development of their independent psychology. For their works, we should be realistic. If they draw well, we can praise them and point out the success of their paintings. If they draw poorly, we should encourage them to strengthen their confidence, point out that they are "not bad", and encourage them to work harder. Only with such encouragement can children draw strength from it; if they are blindly "good, good, good", children will think that adults are dealing with them. Thirdly, take advantage of the situation. Children's graffiti is childish and can hardly be a painting, but in the minds of children, clumsy lines or circles represent vivid things. Parents should understand their children's intentions, obtain their consent, follow their reasons, and help them make some modifications. Children often have the phenomenon of "personalization" when painting, that is, they use paintings to express the things around them, and give life to everything. Parents must pay full attention to this when guiding them.

Graffiti also has risks

The world is colorful, and babies are full of curiosity and yearning for the colorful world, so they use paintbrushes to depict the world. However, since babies are still young and are at the age of being curious about everything and putting everything in their mouths, it is easy for them to put the paintbrush in their mouths during the painting process. How should parents deal with this? First, choose a suitable paintbrush.

1) Easy to hold

The chubby little hands of babies are not yet able to hold a brush properly, so the brush you choose must be designed to be suitable for small hands to grasp, not too long or too thin.

2) To show color

If it is a crayon, whether it is easy to color and whether the color is visible is very important. If the baby can get a rich and solid color with a light swipe, it will arouse her interest.

3) Easy to clean

For children aged 0-3, don’t think that they can sit down and “paint a good picture”. It’s good enough if they don’t paint a good picture on themselves. If you want your child to be able to play freely and your mother doesn’t want to expose her veins, you must choose a brush that is easy to clean!

4) Non-toxic, non-toxic, non-toxic

When the baby is over 1 year old, he will really put the brush in his mouth. This incredible behavior, the little child will really do it! Otherwise, he will make his hands dirty, and then use his hands to eat! This behavior will drive the mother crazy, so the paintbrush you choose must be "non-toxic"!

Secondly, safety precautions should be taken. Before giving children a paintbrush, safety education should be done, telling them that it is for painting and they must not eat it, otherwise they will have diarrhea. For children who are too young, they should be used under adult supervision. If a child really swallows a paintbrush, parents must take the child to the hospital for a check-up in time. Babies are not fully developed physically and mentally, and their skills in all aspects are relatively fragile compared to adults, so parents must protect their children well.