Drawing with Isaiah: what his art says. Isaiah is my water godchild. For those who don't know what that is, it's a "symbolic" baptism that takes place a few days after the child's birth, to protect him from bad things until his baptism in the church. It happens at home, with a little holy water and a candle. A little prayer and the pact is made. As he is my neighbour, I have many stories and anecdotes with him, enjoying his growth and evolution as a child. Isaías is 6 years old, unfortunately he was born two days before my birthday (as planned), but if you believe in the signs, we have things in common that make us close in character heh,heh.
Inmediatamente lo saqué y le dije:
In the last few days, Isa (as I call her affectionately) came home. He came with his mum, who is one of my best friends, to visit. He was very restless and like all children, while we were talking he was looking for ways to get attention. At first, his mum gave him the mobile phone, but wanting more attention, he started to want to do other things, like to hurry up and want to leave. I remembered that in the past few days, also for #Hive and for another publication that is not relevant, I bought colours, markers and a picture book. This book is of an anime character called Naruto whose name is all I know and although it wasn't my favourite, it was the only one I got. I immediately took it out and told him: Isaiah let's draw!
His first impression was to take all the colours, take the book, look at the figures, smile. In the first image, as I was still talking to his mother, I didn't pay attention to his creative process. Although I told her a little bit about the character and that she should draw, I admit I didn't pay attention. As he made his first strokes, I noticed something curious, but I kept just observing. These were his images:
The moment I noticed it, I started to ask him why he was doing that. He told me that his face was covered, he made strokes outside the shapes and he also started to draw other figures that were not the ones in the main drawing. I took part of the drawing and told him: "let's make a new one" as the previous one was not the purpose of the book. This time, when I saw that he was doing the same technique, I started with him to mark out the drawing and he was filling it in. Then, he took the same colour that I had taken and started to fill it in. That's how our drawing turned out:
Las apreciaciones a esta gran comunidad desde mi experiencia son:
The appreciations to this great community from my experience are:
🌺 We must cultivate creativity in our children, not just pure technology. This encourages hyperactivity, dispersion of thought, dependence on a game and so many other behaviours that do not generate any wellbeing in our children.
🌺 We must also explore their creativity. Show them different activities so that the child can discriminate between what he likes and what is less attractive to him. Here we do not have to distinguish "boy/girl" activities but what the child feels comfortable with.
🌺 We must participate in their activities. It's not just about "giving them something to entertain themselves" (as I admit I did), but about knowing why they do things, how they react, how they feel when making those figures (in the case of drawing) and, of course, how we can help them in their process.
It is not about pigeonholing the child, because at this point they will say "it is his creative process", "you had to let him express himself", it is not that, without that in drawing and technique he showed anxiety, dispersion, incorrect way of taking the instruments, then it is necessary for the development of his fine motor skills to teach him lines, combination of colours, association of shapes, that serve to make letters, words, numbers that is, help him to read-write and organise ideas.
🌺 We must also get involved in the process. This will provide the child with security, comfort, interest and protagonism, which is what they are in our lives, our protagonists until they can fend for themselves. Working on their self-esteem, giving value to their activities, is important for the growth of a happy, joyful child, committed to what they do because they understand that it matters to someone.
Todas las fotografías mostradas, fueron patrocinadas por su mamá que fue nuestra fotógrafa.
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All the photographs shown were sponsored by his mother who was our photographer.
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