Drawing develops fine motor skills in a child, which stimulates speech, mental and visual activity, memory and coordination. In the process of drawing, both hemispheres of the brain are involved, interhemispheric connections actively arise. The child learns to think, compare and fantasize.
Drawing or coloring a sun with a smile and rays puts children in a positive mood and lifts their spirits.
Drawing the sun with rays with pencils. Coloring pages
You can use colored pencils to depict the sun. For younger preschoolers, it is better to choose wax pencils, which do not break the lead and will not spoil the impression from this breakage. With older children, you can take regular colored pencils or felt-tip pens, which will make the drawing brighter.
Materials needed to create a child's sunny masterpiece:
- album sheet;
- simple pencil;
- colored pencils or markers;
- eraser.
When forming a drawing, it is necessary to draw a circle as a base; if you are not sure that you can do this right away, it is better to take a simple pencil, which is easily erased with an eraser.
First, draw a circle, not pressing too hard on the pencil so that there is no imprint. You can do it yourself, but it is more effective if you give the child a pencil and draw, guiding his hand along the sheet. This will help to tell about the figure that makes up the base of the sun. Or draw on a separate sheet in parallel with it.
Having prepared the base, move on to colored pencils, outline the circle line in yellow. Fill the emptiness by coloring with strokes of a yellow pencil or in circular motions. Draw eyes and a smiling mouth inside. To make the sun brighter, draw rays around the solar disk.
The rays can be of different shapes:
- Straight lines are those from a disk of the required length.
- Wavy - wavy lines will add magic to the sun.
- Zigzag - lines that do not touch the solar circle, but frame it, giving the opportunity to diversify the coloring of the sun with a smile and rays. When choosing this shape, the rays need to be painted in a darker shade or orange.
- Intermittent - dotted lines, small dashes of different lengths.
In addition to the drawing itself, the coloring page with the sun can be printed out, and all that remains is to add colors. The pencil drawing can be given immediately or hung on the wall, it does not require drying or additional processing.
Coloring pages of the sun with rays for children 3-4 years old
Coloring pages of the sun with rays and clouds for children 5-6 years old
Coloring pages of the sun with rays for children 7-8 years old
Drawing the sun with paints
Creating a drawing with paints will help not only to create a spectacular picture, but also to tell the child about water or liquid. The composition can be drawn using different techniques. For children aged 3-4, it is easier and better to use a coloring picture of the sun with clouds, a smile, rays and other elements, the coloring of which develops the imagination, fine motor skills and creativity of the child.
For drawing you will need the following materials:
- album sheet;
- thick and thin brushes, or cotton swabs, depending on the painting technique;
- gouache or watercolor;
- a glass of water;
- simple pencil.
We make a blank as a disk of the sun, draw a circle with a simple pencil, add rays and a smile. For variety, you can add clouds to the drawing, using continuous arcs of different sizes, outlining an oval, the final arc of which converges with the beginning of the first. If the child allows, all this can be done by the child's hand, for visual reinforcement of the skill.
Let's move on to creating a colorful drawing. If your child is not yet familiar with painting, it's best to first show him how to draw the sun with a dry brush or cotton swab.
Depending on the age of the child, a brush is used with older children, and a cotton swab is more convenient for drawing with little ones. Tear off yellow paint and dip a brush or cotton swab in water, excess water should be removed on the edge of the cup. Dip our tool in paint and draw a disk of the sun. From the circle, draw sun rays with yellow paint and fill the sun inside with yellow. The sun should be left to dry.
Meanwhile, we move on to creating clouds, for this we will need light blue or blue dim paint. We wash the brush from yellow color in water, remove excess water and dip the brush in light blue paint. We draw an arc - the beginning of the cloud, from the end point of the semicircle we add another arc, and another one. To complete the image of the cloud, we need to draw a reverse arc from the last semicircle to the first and paint the cloud with light blue strokes, having finished, leave it to dry. For variety, you can draw several clouds.
The sun has dried, we return to finish the drawing. We rinse the brush, move on to red or pink paint, which helps to draw a smile on the sun. With the help of black paint we make eyes - dots. Of course, you can draw the sun without a smile and eyes, then the picture will be more realistic.
The same drawing can be created and colored using finger painting. Instead of brushes and cotton swabs, fingers are used, and gouache is used as paint.
For cleanliness during drawing, you need to take wet wipes that will not allow you to stain clothes, furniture with paint left on your fingers and simply ruin the drawing itself. We put our masterpiece aside to dry.
Drawing a sun with rays and grass with a flower. Master class of drawing with chalk on the street.
A child will be delighted to paint a sun with a smile and rays with chalk during a walk. This will require colored chalk, and wet wipes for hygiene.
First of all, we draw a circle of the sun, which we immediately color. After that, we draw the rays, it is better if the length of the rays is different sizes. And we finish drawing a smile and eyes for our sun. For a complete picture, you can finish drawing the grass with green chalk. The grass can be drawn with zigzag lines or dashes that will look like individual blades of grass. We draw a flower on the grass.
In the middle between the sun and the grass we draw petals, from the flower to the grass we draw a line, it can be not a straight line, which will serve as a stem. And on the stem we must depict the leaves of the flower. Each detail is painted with chalk in the appropriate color. This drawing cannot be taken with you, but it will please you with the process of creation and on subsequent walks.
If you forgot to take crayons for a walk, but promised the child to draw, do not despair and do not be afraid, this can be done with the help of sand and a twig. The sun and a smile are drawn on the sand, the rest of the details of the drawing can be thought out in the process.
Drawing is a special form of artistic activity, where a child expresses himself in different ways. And if an adult participates in coloring the sun with a smile and rays, then in addition to useful development, children develop a positive emotional attitude.