Notes on drawing “Wild Animals” in the senior group

Learn to draw animals with a pencil step by step

Drawing animals step by step for children of any age is a fun game. They love to watch how a familiar animal is formed from simple elements that appear according to an algorithm, as if by magic. And when adults allow you to repeat the demonstrated miracle, the child receives great pleasure from both the process itself and the result, because it is just like a real artist!

Teaching children drawing tricks

Where to start learning

It is advisable to teach children to draw animals by mastering a simple pencil. It will create an outline of the image, which you can later happily color. In addition, children quickly get upset if something doesn’t work out for them. In the case of a simple pencil, it’s not difficult to fix everything: erase the missing element with an eraser and continue creating.

Which animal to choose for drawing

The first lesson is the most important, because you can teach a child to draw animals in a few minutes, provided that the object to be depicted is chosen correctly. You shouldn’t immediately suggest drawing a horse or a giraffe. The best option is a duckling, kitten or puppy. The images of these pets consist of a small number of elements, which minimizes the risk of failure in the lesson.

Interesting! Parents who decide to try to learn drawing techniques using step-by-step templates themselves rejoice like children, amazed at the result.

What you need for drawing

Any activity, be it drawing or morning exercises, should be started when the child himself wants it. It makes no sense to force someone to draw, because creativity is closely related to the state of the soul. For the first lessons you will need a minimum of tools:

• paper;
• a simple hard-soft pencil (marked TM or HB);
• eraser.

Note! It is preferable to take A4 paper or a classic sketchbook, but a notebook sheet will not work, the lines and cells in it will interfere with the baby, and the sheet will seem initially unclean to him.

Games and exercises to develop imagination in children

It is recommended to give preference to a hard-soft pencil, because it is easiest to work with. Drawing with a hard stylus is inconvenient because it requires stronger pressure and the mark left behind is not bright. It will not be possible to erase it efficiently - a groove from the rod will remain on the paper. On the contrary, a soft lead does not require pressure at all, its mark is bright and clear, but when you try to erase the line, the eraser will smear the soft mark, leaving dark stains.

Motivating start to class

Drawing an animal figure in a characteristic pose or movement is a complex visual activity for preschool children. Creating a preliminary contour drawing from geometric shapes can be boring, practicing brush drawing techniques can be monotonous. To prevent children from losing interest in drawing, the teacher needs to use motivating material during the lesson.

Examples of using motivational material

Drawing up notes for an art lesson on the topic “Wild and Domestic Animals”

The duration of a drawing lesson for children 5–6 years old is no more than 25 minutes and consists of the following steps:

1. Organizational moment 1 minute.
2. Motivating start of the lesson 5-6 minutes.
3. Discussion of the drawing algorithm 2–3 minutes.
4. Practical work 10–11 minutes.
5. Demonstration and discussion of drawings 2–3 minutes.
6. Summing up 1 minute.

Outline of a drawing lesson (senior group) on the topic “Hedgehog” Author: Natalya Aleksandrovna Ashenkova

Step-by-step schemes for kids

There are many simple patterns that make beautiful drawings; for children, animals are of more interest than household items or landscapes, so you should start with them.

A simple example of drawing a bird. Children love to feed the ducks on the ponds, any child would love to draw their own duck.

1. The creative process begins with two ovals: the head and the torso, connected to each other by a short neck.
2. Paws are drawn from the body down.
3. On the duck's body, just below the middle, draw an arc representing a folded wing.
4. Sharpen the edge of the oval from the tail side using an eraser. The tail is depicted by several almost parallel lines of short length
5. A beak and an eye are drawn to the duck's head.
6. The final touch is adding details in the form of drawing feathers throughout the body and wing of the bird.
7. Now you can color it.

How to draw a duck

Technological maps for the execution of drawings

When depicting animals, it is very important to clearly formulate for children the order in which the contours of the drawing should be completed.

Table: description of the procedure for working on animalistic topics for the middle group

Photo gallery: animal drawing schemes

The drawing of a kid can be supplemented with applicative elements: a sun made of plasticine, grass made of colored paper

When drawing hedgehog needles, it is important to draw children’s attention to the unidirectionality of the “layers” of needles

In the drawing of a squirrel, children complete some elements from memory, for example, the shape of the ears, claws

To make the color of a giraffe richer, you can use wax crayons of suitable colors. To color a polar bear, you can use semolina, and a brown bear, buckwheat.

The hare drawing is based on three geometric shapes: two ovals and a circle

To learn how to convey the elegance of the curves of a wolf’s body, children need to repeat the contours of a finished drawing several times, that is, trace a stencil with a pencil

Video: master class on drawing a cat

Video: master class on drawing a hedgehog

Schemes and templates for children 4-5 years old

Children at five years old already have basic drawing skills, especially if they attend a preschool where they are taught by teachers. But in the hot summer, many kindergartens are closed, and not all parents know how to draw themselves. In order to help your child with creativity, you can use children's instructions from the Internet.

How to draw a bee by creating your own coloring book.

Step-by-step instruction:

1. Draw a round head.
2. The body is drawn towards the head, like a flower petal or a propeller blade.
3. Slightly curved lines divide the body into segments, depicting striped coloring.
4. Children's imagination perceives animals as endowed with emotions, just like people. Therefore, the bee needs to finish drawing her eyes and smile.
5. Now it's time to add antennae and wings.
6. The final touch is a sting in the form of a narrow inverted cone.

More complex drawing techniques

Interesting! Insects are the best representatives of the fauna on which you can train your artistic skills. It’s easy to draw them using the simplest geometric shapes: a circle and an oval, which make beautiful caterpillars, bumblebees and bees.

Drawing lessons in older groups of kindergarten on the theme “Spring”

Classes for senior and preparatory groups

Schemes for drawing various animals for preschoolers are also used in master classes at preschool educational institutions. A popular technique is drawing with geometric shapes, from which not only insects are obtained, but also flowers, large animals and people. There is also a secret to using the number 8, which is demonstrated to children in open lessons in the form of presentations with templates. When teaching an algorithm for drawing a fly or a wasp, a figure eight is used, the horizontal arrangement of which helps to proportionally depict the head and abdomen of the insect.

More complex drawing algorithms

In the senior group of kindergarten, children already have a fairly broadly developed horizon, they think and fantasize more broadly, so at this age they can already learn more complex compositions.

More complex drawing techniques

These lessons pay more attention to detail, using shading, curved lines and irregular geometric shapes.

Using available templates and diagrams for drawing, you can teach your child to depict all representatives of the animal world, not only in our country. Many adults, trying to teach a child to create their own drawings, are so carried away by the diagrams that, to their surprise, they discover the hidden talent of an artist in themselves.

Contents of lessons on drawing wild animals

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