What does graffiti mean to children’s life growth? When the baby's doodling period comes, how should parents guide it properly? Let’s take a look at the four stages of children’s drawing starting from graffiti.
1. Graffiti Stage
Generally speaking, children around two years old are in this stage of creative development. Graffiti can be identified through a number of sometimes overlapping stages.
The first stage of graffiti is called the disorderly graffiti stage, which mainly occurs in children from eighteen months to just two years old. Children at this stage will wave their arms and draw. He doesn't know what he's doing. His initial creative expression was random and uncontrollable.
The second stage is called controlled graffiti. It starts after about six months of disorderly graffiti. The child has already developed coordination and control. He began to mentally connect what he was doing. You will observe some straight-line drawings, and the lines are mostly up and down or front and back.
At a later stage in creative development, circular scribbling began to appear. By the time children are about 3 years old, they can draw circles.
Later, a nameable drawing phase will appear. At this stage, the child names an object after drawing it. He had no idea in his mind what he was going to paint. For example, after drawing a rough circle, the child excitedly announced that he had drawn a hippopotamus. A child names his work simply because it feels like something. Moving forward at this stage, the child may start to think about what he wants to draw, but he cannot really draw it very well. In other words, what he painted does not look real to us, but it feels like what he said it was.
2. Modeling stage
Along with the graffiti stage, children generally go through the modeling stage.
The first stage is kneading. During this stage children work with modeling materials such as dough or clay. They pinch or punch or punch holes, just for fun. Next is the synthesis stage, where children mainly make some cylinders and spheres. The next stage is the representation stage, when he tries to make something that looks like the real thing.
3. Pre-signaling stage
The pre-signifying stage, generally speaking, appears around the age of 4. One of the characteristics of this stage is that the child’s drawings contain certain symbols. These are this Typical symbols that can be seen in stages. Another characteristic of this stage is that the child will first draw an outline of what he imagines, and then fill in the blank spaces of his drawing. At this time, children will gradually identify some simple shapes in scribbling, such as squares, rectangles, circles, etc., and learn to control their hand-eye coordination.
He gradually likes to draw some shapes according to his own wishes and express the things in his imagination through painting. Of course, his paintings may only be understood by him. Parents should not ask their children to draw well. How similar, or forcing him to draw according to your template, is undoubtedly stifling the child's creativity.
4. The signaling stage
The signaling stage is usually 5-7 years old. At this stage, the child will draw a person's finger placed on the bottom line similar to the grass or the floor. Things that are bigger and brighter are more meaningful and important to them. Children at this period have learned how to compose pictures. His paintings no longer have just a single image, but have learned to combine various patterns to make the whole picture rich and full. They can also name their masterpieces. Able to describe the meaning of the picture to adults.