01/02/2025
🌏The world around us is such an amazing place. Sometimes sad, sometimes scary, sometimes mysterious, often breathtakingly beautiful but always there and always worth our observation.
Visual Art is often the predominant source of communication for young children, drawing to record, share ideas and make sense and order of their world.
Drawing is also a fantastic way for children to develop hand eye co-ordination, fine motor skills, hand strength and pencil grasp.
As children get older and speech tends to be used more for communication, making Art can drop away in importance.
I am lucky enough to have a mother who is an artist and while people often say to me, ah, that's why you're artistic, because your mother is, I actually don't think this is correct. I think it was because she is an artist, that there was always paint brushes, paint, pencils and paper around to be used and experimented with. And yes, because she is an artist, it was the good stuff, but it doesn't have to be.
A wad of copy paper, a set of watercolour paints, a couple of sized paint brushes, a greylead pencil, an eraser, a pack of coloured pencils and a pack of oil pastels are a really great start to an "art pack" that can be used to keep a young artist making those incredible drawings that children make.
All of these materials can be sourced cheaply from discount shops, and if you pop some newspaper underneath, wont need much to clean up.
Happy making & creating to all XX
