Drawings on the topic Healthy lifestyles help children understand which habits are considered good and which are bad, and why. Parents need to know how to help a child put their thoughts on paper, what materials to use, and also consider several ideas for work.
What is a healthy lifestyle, how can you depict the idea on paper?
A healthy lifestyle is a healthy way of life. Promoting such a life-style among children and teenagers helps to instill healthy habits in them and show them what consequences bad ones will entail. Since children sometimes have difficulty perceiving information by ear, ministries of education in different countries, including Russia, consider it important to visualize this idea. Poster competitions help develop students' creative abilities, teach them to think and depict their thoughts in the form of drawings.
There are many ways to put an idea on paper. The main thing is that the child is interested in the topic. Kindergarten and primary school students can be asked to draw their favorite cartoon characters. Let Smeshariki, Luntik or, for example, Winnie the Pooh play sports, eat vegetables and fruits, or get tough in the picture.
Teenagers can be asked to show in a picture the difference between people who live according to the rules of a healthy lifestyle and those who have bad habits. Children of this age need to remember that they will soon grow up, and it is important for them to take care of their future.
You can draw with pencils, paints or felt-tip pens. Further in the article you can find several ideas for posters on the topic of a healthy lifestyle.
Examples of drawings for children to copy in kindergarten
Children aged 3 to 6 are very active and rarely able to sit still for long. Therefore, the picture should be simple, so that the creative process takes no more than 10 minutes.
The table provides 5 short descriptions of the drawings and the ideas they are intended to show:
| What to draw | What is the idea? |
| 3-4 vegetables or fruits | Show how important healthy eating is. Parents can help by writing a short phrase about the benefits of fresh produce. |
| A baby tooth with a smiley face holding a toothbrush and toothpaste | Explain the importance of hygiene |
| A girl or a boy is walking in a field with green grass and flowers. The sun is shining. The character is smiling. | Demonstrating the benefits of regular walks in the fresh air |
| A clock or an alarm clock, and next to it some happy hero | Point out a good habit - to follow a daily routine. Parents can decorate the drawing with an inscription on the topic. |
| The hero of a favorite cartoon stands on a green meadow and holds a soccer ball in his hands | Show the role of sports and active games in a healthy lifestyle |
Drawings can be made in outline if the child does not want to do it for a long time. Children who like to draw can be offered to color the picture.
Drawings for children of primary and secondary school
It is important for schoolchildren to train perseverance and instill a love for painstaking work. Drawings should be elaborate, with small details and inscriptions. Students in grades 1-4 can still be asked to draw their favorite cartoon or fairy tale characters. Older children are entrusted with more serious work, which will show not only positive habits, but also bad ones, so that they have the opportunity to visually compare the consequences of their lifestyle choices.
Several examples of drawings made using different materials and short descriptions of them can be found further in the article.
With a simple pencil
A drawing on the topic of a healthy lifestyle in black and white is the simplest option. Suitable for those who do not want to spend a lot of time on work. For students in grades 1-4, you can choose a contour style of pictures, without coloring.
You can draw a character who has healthy habits. Let him do exercises, eat healthy food or walk in the fresh air. To better imagine how to design a drawing, you can look at 1 simple master class.
The idea of this image is to demonstrate the benefits of sports. The picture will show a boy with a dumbbell in his hand.
How to draw:
- Make a sketch of a round head, then a neck and a body.
- Finish drawing the legs and arms. One arm will be raised up, the other, on the contrary, will be lowered or bent at the elbow.
- Draw sports clothes for the boy. On the T-shirt, depict 2 horizontal stripes at the bottom and a number, like on a football uniform. You can draw shorts or pants with stripes. Add sneakers.
- Erase all unnecessary lines with an eraser.
- Design the character's face. Draw the hairstyle, nose, wide smile and happy eyes. Add freckles.
- In your raised hand, depict a small dumbbell.
To make the drawing look complete, you need a motivating inscription. It can be placed at the top or bottom.
What to write:
- Friendship with sports means good health!
- Physical Education - Hello!
- Health, strength and good mood!
Children over 12 years old can be asked to depict the negative consequences of bad habits. In the picture, you can draw a sick hero and a healthy one. This will make the difference between them noticeable, and the drawing will make the child think about what kind of character he would like to be.
A short master class on the topic of “consequences of bad habits” will help develop new ideas.
In the picture, you can animate inanimate objects that will symbolize 3 bad habits: alcoholism, smoking and drug use.
- In the center of the sheet, draw a round table with a long tablecloth. Work on the folds of the fabric.
- In the middle of the table, draw a plate with a heart. No need to go into biological details. The heart should look schematic, like on postcards for February 14.
- Draw 2 chairs on the left and right. Let the bottle "sit" on the right. It needs to have eyes, a mouth, arms and legs.
- On the left, you can draw the same animated cigarette. Let its top emit smoke, so that it is clearer what exactly this character symbolizes.
- Behind the heart, on the other side of the table, draw a syringe with eyes. All characters should have unpleasant-looking faces, because they symbolize evil.
- Let each of them have a small plate in front of them, and let the characters reach for the heart with their hands and forks, as if it were the main dish. You can write "health" on the heart.
The idea of this drawing is that bad habits literally “eat” a person’s health.
With colored pencils
You can draw a beautiful and bright picture with colored pencils.
Idea for students in grades 1-4:
- Draw a yellow circle in the center of the sheet. This will be the sun. Use other colors to draw happy eyes and a smile for the sun.
- Let the sun emit wide rays in all 4 corners of the sheet. First, you need to outline them, put off coloring for now.
- Inside each beam, depict 1 object that will symbolize healthy habits. For example, a bicycle is a sport, an apple is healthy food, a toothbrush is hygiene, and an alarm clock is routine.
- Color each object separately, then color the sun rays with a yellow pencil. Color the space between the rays with blue.
This drawing shows that a healthy lifestyle brings happiness.
An idea for students in grades 5-7. The purpose of the drawing is to show the difference between good and bad habits.
- Divide the sheet into 2 parts.
- On the left, draw the outline of a slender man's silhouette, and on the right, on the contrary, the silhouette of a fat and stooped character.
- Fill both contours with small drawings in the form of different food and other objects. Inside the slender hero let there be fruits, water, sports equipment. The second character will be "filled" with bottles, cigarettes, hamburgers.
- Fill the empty space inside the contours with any color and design the background.
To complete the drawing, you can add an inscription, for example: “everyone fills themselves.”
With felt-tip pens
It is better to use felt-tip pens to draw outline drawings so that they look neat and the paper does not roll when you color them.
Idea for children aged 7 to 10: to show different options for active activities.
- Draw a strip of film on a sheet of paper. You can place it lengthwise, crosswise or diagonally.
- Draw several "photographs" inside each frame. Let it be a faceless person.
- In the first picture he plays football. Accordingly, in the chosen square you need to draw a person, a ball and a goal. In the second picture he lifts a barbell, then he runs, in the next one he swims.
The number of frames on the film is the number of different ideas that can be depicted. The drawing can be finished with an inscription like: "Movement is life!"
Older children can draw 2 silhouettes of pregnant women on a sheet of paper. Let one inhale the scent of flowers, and the other - cigarette smoke. In the area of their stomachs, draw 1 sign each, where the smoking girl has a little man in a wheelchair, and the one with flowers has a healthy and cheerful child. This drawing will demonstrate the consequences of bad habits.
With watercolor paints
A drawing on the theme of a healthy lifestyle, made with watercolors, turns out bright and beautiful. The colors smoothly transition from one shade to another, so such paints can be used to draw complex images.
The ideas for the drawings below will tell about the dangers of smoking. Pupils of grades 1-4 will be able to draw a large cigarette, placing it horizontally on a sheet of paper. The filter can be painted orange, and a smouldering ember can be depicted at the end. It is necessary to mix red, yellow and orange paint so that the fire looks real. At the very edge, add grey and black, which will depict ash.
At the bottom, in black paint, you need to draw a scale like a ruler, where instead of centimeters there will be values in years with an interval of 5-10 years. At the top of the drawing, in red, make the inscription: "And how long will you live?"
Children in grades 5-7 can schematically depict the lungs of a smoker (gray, brown, with spots) and the lungs of a healthy person (pink, reddish). The lightness of watercolor paints will allow for smooth transitions of shades.
Gouache
A drawing on the theme of a healthy lifestyle, painted with gouache, will attract attention, because the palette of these paints has many rich shades. It is necessary to keep in mind that gouache is a thick paint and it will not be possible to make smooth transitions from one color to another. It is better to simply paint individual contours in different colors.
First, you need to make a sketch with a simple pencil. Children from 7 to 10 years old can be offered to draw their favorite cartoon character. For example, you can look at a master class on drawing Nyusha from the Smeshariki series. She will jump rope.
- Use a simple pencil to draw a round body of the pig. Add arms, legs, hair. Design the muzzle.
- Paint the body pink. Highlight the cheeks and heels with red.
- Paint the hooves with brown or black and paint the hair with orange gouache.
All that remains is to draw the yellow skipping rope with green handles. You can depict it as an arc at the bottom or top.
For older children, you can draw a yellow basket with vegetables or fruits in the picture. Paint each item in the desired color and make a beautiful inscription about the benefits of healthy food. You can write a short poem, for example:
"To stay healthy
Don't get sick and don't be ill,
You need to eat right,
"Chew fruits and vegetables!"
To make the drawing clearer, you need to outline all the depicted objects with black or dark brown paint.
Ideas for thematic drawings related to different areas of healthy lifestyle
A healthy lifestyle means following rules from different areas of life.
Basic principles:
- proper nutrition;
- physical activity;
- health promoting exercises;
- giving up bad habits.
A drawing on the topic of a healthy lifestyle can symbolize several ideas at once or just 1 useful habit. Further in the article, you can consider options for the design of posters that depict some specific principles of a healthy lifestyle.
About sports
To demonstrate the benefits of regular exercise, the drawing could include:
- characters working out in the gym;
- sports equipment;
- active activities and games (basketball, football, tennis);
- happy characters in a healthy, muscular body.
You can depict several characters from your favorite cartoon or gather heroes from different films and fairy tales into a single team. Let them all run, lift weights, and do pull-ups on horizontal bars. The drawing can be supplemented with motivating inscriptions.
A good idea is to draw two heroes who are feuding on the screen, but in the picture they are playing football, tennis or doing push-ups together. The idea of the picture is to bring the child to the idea that sports should be regularly spent time, and that it is such an important activity that even Tom the cat and Jerry the mouse preferred to spend their free time not chasing each other, but training.
Proper nutrition
The picture should show what food is considered healthy and what is harmful. You can draw some superhero and show how he eats healthy food, that's why this character is so strong, fast and agile. Next to him, you can depict a villain, over whom the superhero wins in each episode of the cartoon. In the picture, depict how the villain eats harmful products, that's why he is so puny/fat, weak, ugly.
You can draw food separately, in the form of signs with a green outline, which symbolizes benefit, and a red crossed-out circle, which means harm.
Examples of unhealthy and healthy foods:
| Useful | Harmful |
| Fruits | Hamburgers |
| Vegetables | French fries |
| Fish | Fried chicken legs |
| Meat | Candies |
| Milk | Pizza |
| Cheese | Canned goods |
| Salads | Chips |
As in the table, these products can be divided into 2 parts. On the right are harmful products, and on the left are useful ones.
How to temper
Hardening helps strengthen the immune system. Therefore, it is important to tell children about this useful habit. You can draw funny characters pouring water on themselves in the street, wiping themselves with wet towels.
Another option is to draw happy heroes who have toughened up and are now not afraid of the cold, so they are happily playing ice hockey, and a sad hero in multi-layered clothing is sitting on the bench. He is freezing because he neglected the rules of a healthy lifestyle. You can also depict a game on the ice, outside the window, and a boy who is sick will be sitting in the house. He is sitting with a thermometer and is sad, looking at his friends on the street. Such posters should be accompanied by slogans and inscriptions so that the idea of the drawing is clearer.
Examples of phrases:
- Harden yourself and you will be healthy!
- Regular hardening – good health!
- No colds, no illnesses, it’s better to run, be healthy!
It is important to explain to the child how to harden himself correctly.
Strong family
The poster should depict the characters as family members who follow the rules of a healthy lifestyle together. You can draw your family or any other.
All characters must perform one action in sync, for example:
- swim in the pool;
- lift dumbbells;
- run;
- play active games;
- do exercises;
- walk in the fresh air.
If the family is involved in sports, then everyone should be "dressed" in sportswear. The inscriptions will help make the idea of the drawing understandable to other people.
Examples:
- Health is our wealth!
- Mom, dad, brother and I are a strong family!
- We are for a healthy lifestyle!
It is important to explain to the child, if he wants to depict an abstract family, that the children should resemble their parents. For example, the father has red hair, then the son or daughter should also have red hair. This will make it clearer that the picture depicts a family, and not different characters.
Bad habits
The comparison technique described above works well in this area. It is necessary to show how characters with bad habits differ from those who love a healthy lifestyle. The healthy hero should be happy and cheerful. A bright background can be drawn behind him. The second hero of the drawing, on the contrary, should look depressing. The reasons for such an appearance can be depicted on the background, or the space can be painted gray.
It is also considered a good idea to show a person who is faced with a choice. On the left, the doors of a healthy lifestyle open for him. The sun is shining there, he sees himself in the future, healthy, with a family and children. Behind the door of "bad habits" he sees darkness, many cigarette butts, empty bottles of alcohol. The character himself looks depressed and sick. He is alone.
The poster can be supplemented with the inscription: “You decide what your life will be like.”
A drawing on the topic of a healthy lifestyle will help develop a child's creative abilities, his thinking and teach him to think about the consequences when making important decisions. Children aged 10 and older already have an idea of good and bad habits, and kindergarteners and primary school students will need help from adults. When creating a drawing together, it is important to explain to the child why one thing is good and another is bad.
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