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How to Draw for KidsHow to draw for kids is divided into two sections: 
The Playroom
is aimed at parents and younger children. Here you'll find a range of art projects which are designed to be enjoyable and fun for both you and your children. They will stimulate imagination, encourage creative growth and help children to develop good manipulative skills.
Drawing by Livia, age 3
The Studio is for you if you are about eight or over and you're starting to want to make your drawings look more real. You'll find projects and resources designed especially for you here, ranging from drawing comics, to realism, to abstract drawing and art.
Canal and Bridge, by Aidan, age 8
How to Draw for Kids....for ParentsHow to draw for kids is grounded in the work of both Viktor Lowenfeld and Betty Edwards Lowenfeld is and was the authority in arts education in the USA during the latter half of the 20thC. Betty Edwards is perhaps best known for 'Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain'*.They differ, though not greatly, in the way they map out the stages of children's creative development, and both have much to offer parents in their insights and observations. Both, too, have described certain important and recognisable stages in children's creative development. If you would like to know more about the research which underpins the art projects you'll find in the Playroom and the Studio I talk more about them here . If you are an adult who abandoned drawing yourself, because you believed you weren't good enough at it or would 'never learn', you'll also find this article personally relevant. *As you'll read, some of the claims Betty Edwards makes are controversial: neurological research shows clearly that both sides of the brain are in operation at all times. Certainly this is what I learned at University (I have a first class degree in Psychology and Sociology). That aside however, her observations about creative development are invaluable and certainly accord with what I've observed when working with young children on art projects and what I have learned about the reasons people abandon drawing.
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Where would you like to go now?To the top of How to Draw for Kids To the Playroom - Part One To The Playroom - Part Two To the Teaching Children To Draw Page To Art Supplies For Kids To the Home Page
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