Creepy Crawly Colouring Book For Kids

Your child came home from school with yet another picture she drew of you and her holding hands. While the scribbles are cute, have you ever found yourself wondering if they're really an important part of school? Are they actually supporting the academic atmosphere? The answer is YES, colouring is important in early childhood education for a lot of reasons!1. Helps Develop Hand-StrengthOne of the biggest reasons colouring is important at this age is because it helps develop hand strength. As adults, we've been writing, typing, and doing fine motor skills for decades which means we take our hand strength for granted. Toddlers and preschoolers, however, are just beginning to build those muscles.Hand strength is important for all hand-related fine motor skills, especially handwriting. Writing takes strength and dexterity, and colouring helps exercise these muscles. Hand strength will also support your child's proper pencil grip.2. Offers Practice for Pencil GripA crayon is likely one of the first writing instruments your child will hold. By practicing with crayons, your child is fine-tuning their proper pencil grip. Pencil grip is part hand strength and part practice. Colouring allows for both! Most improper hand grips are caused when a child develops poor grip habits before their hands are strong enough to support the proper grip.3. Stimulates CreativityGiving a child the opportunity to colour helps stimulate the creative side in their mind. Colours, shapes, interpretations, and imagined stories are all present when a child is colouring. Even if your child draws the same picture over and over, they're still engaging the creative centres in the brain that process colours and shapes.4. Encourages Self-ExpressionWhen children have the opportunity to colour, they engage their independence and self-expression. What colours should they choose? What should they draw? What will it look like? Will it be big or small? Will it have lots of colours or just one colour? Will the faces be smiling or frowning? Chances are, the answers to their questions are either consciously or subconsciously expressing themselves or their emotions. Drawing is a chance for your child to work through his or her emotions and to express themselves in a safe environment. Children may not always have the words to say exactly how they're feeling, but colouring will let your child express himself without needing the vocabulary to do so.5. Improves Fine Motor CoordinationIn early childhood, children are still developing the fine motor coordination skills that will eventually support their daily activities. Typing, writing, cooking, household chores, turning pages of a book, using tools, doing their hair - pretty much everything requires motor skills. When your child colours, he or she is developing their fine motor coordination. Other colouring-related activities that help develop fine motor coordination include dot-to-dot pictures, tracing, colouring inside the lines of colouring pages, playing tic-tac-toe, and copying a picture onto a blank sheet of paper.6. Helps Develop Focus. Colouring is also a great focus-building exercise. Focus is an important skill for children to learn, not only for their academic careers but for their professional careers as well. Focus is what helps us see through any task from start to finish. You'll notice as your child's focus develops that his or her drawings become more intricate, taking more time to complete.

Author: Tyrell Blackwood

Publisher: Independently Published

Publication Date: Dec 29, 2020

Number of Pages: 26 pages

Binding: Paperback or Softback

ISBN-10: NA

ISBN-13: 9798588022200