Join the dots activity with colouring – The first homework of this academic year! How cool it is, right? Except for the fact that until some 6 months ago Mishika wasn’t very keen on filling colours using crayons within shapes, fruits, vegetables, flowers, etc. Give her watercolour or a blank paper and pencils, crayons, etc. and she would draw and paint amazing things. But filling colours wasn’t her thing!
So over a period of some 6 months, I gradually gave her smaller shapes to fill colours in and I would do the same with her on another paper. But never when she said that she didn’t feel like colouring. She had to be in the right mood to colour. So when she showed interest, we sat with colouring books and crayons like two friends colouring together! I did offer little prompts / reminders like holding the paper with the other hand, or colouring slowly and being aware of borders, etc.
We didn’t sit for colouring daily or very regularly. I just incorporated it as a by-the-way activity between other cool things we did during the vacation. Used some stories And ideas while colouring. Now she likes colouring and was so focused and interested today. Not sure if she would be interested in colouring later during the year and it’s completely her choice. Though she loves art and painting projects, and I love her progress ❤
Check the image to see how many questions she had (and some more) while colouring this bunny today! Art fosters curiosity and opens the doors to imagination and creativity!
Today, she completed this little join the dots activity + art project so neatly and I am so glad! She loved doing it and had so many questions and ideas that it became a learning activity!
Lesson being that it doesn’t help to constantly push/force kids in doing something they don’t like. Sometimes they just find it boring, or sometimes they aren’t ready/need time. Try to make it fun and join them. If they like it over a period of time, if they don’t, maybe it’s not their thing. We all have different likes and interests and that’s perfectly okay!
Do you agree? Did you see a change in your kid with regard to not being interested in something and then a complete shift? I would love to know in the comments.
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