Wobbly monsters are strange and wonderful creatures. There is no one right way to draw a wobbly monster and this freedom allows the child to explore ways of combining lines and shapes to draw interesting creatures.
Drawing wobbly monsters is a wonderful way to engage a child who is reluctant to draw in creating interesting and imaginative drawings.
Materials You (coach/parent/teacher) and the child (or children) each need a sheet A4 or A3 paper.
Instructions
Draw a large outline shape on the paper. Now add detail: lots of eyes, a large mouth with scary teeth, several tails or whatever else that is interesting and unusual. Talk about the detail you are adding - have fun - be creative.
Here are some wobbly monsters
Encourage the child to draw their own wobbly monster. You may need to make suggestions for features or detail that can be added.
Take time to talk: Talk about the child's drawing. Provide lots and lots and lots of positive feedback.
Put the other drawings in a folder. Then you can look back and see the progress week by week.
A lion monster
A fish monster
Kindergarten Drawing Activities
A PDF Guide for Parents and Teachers
Learning to draw and print numbers and letters is a matter of learning to control the movements of a pencil on paper to produce straight and curved lines of different lengths, in different directions, precisely located on the page and linked to create patterns, shapes and letters. (Read more about the graphic abilities children should acquire in kindergarten.)
Children with movement difficulties associated with DCD, ASD, joint hypermobility (low muscle tone) and those having a very cautious highly sensitive (anxious) nature or a diagnosis of Sensory Processing Disorder, may need a bit of extra help with guided practice opportunities to acquire the. basic motor control and graphic abilities for learning to print letters and numbers that are well formed,spaced and sized.
The drawing activities in this Kindergarten Drawing Activities book are designed to help children acquire these basic motor coordination and graphic abilities in readiness for learning to print letters and numbers.
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About the drawing activities
Each activity has two sections: a guided drawing activity for practicing a particular graphic element followed by suggestions for incorporating the same elements into a drawing.
For example, the Drawing Long Lines activity is an opportunity to practice drawing lone lines down the page with attention to the start and endpoint of the line. The emphasis is attention to a goal, repetition and evaluation of the outcome as a way to improving the child's attention the to details of the task and using feedback to adapt the drawing actions to improve the quality of each long line.
The Free and Creative drawing section makes suggestions for incorporating long vertical lines into a drawing to create patterns, fills, create shapes or represent events such as a rain storm. The emphasis is on encouraging your child to experiment with different and creative ways to represent people, animals and objects
Contents
About
How the brain controls drawing movements
Arm and finger movements for drawing
Materials
Teaching for better learning
Activities with 13 different activity sheets
Scribble pictures and wobbly monsters
Long vertical and horizontal lines
Ladders and train tracks
Circles in boxes
Diagonal lines, triangles and zigzags
Rectangles and squares
Shapes in small boxes
About the author
Pam Versfeld is a physiotherapist with many years of experience working with children who have drawing and handwriting difficulties related to developmental motor disorders such as developmental coordination disorder (DCD), ASD, joint hypermobility/ low muscle tone and ADHD and being a highly sensitive child (sometimes diagnosed as a sensory processing disorder).
Pam is also a proud grandmother who has closely observed the developing graphic abilities of several grandchildren who have spent many hours sitting and drawing at her kitchen table.
