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Why Children Need To Learn To Draw

Drawing and Children's Development 
Learning to draw can give practices for children's development, either in their skill development or in their emotional development. Therefore, let us see the benefits of learning to draw and its relationship with children's development in the aspect of skill and emotion.

Drawing and Children's Visual Development
When a child draws, his visual aspect will develop. The child will be trained to record a shape or an object, and memorize it. He will then express it in the form of a drawing. A child that can draw from the result of his sight memory is a characteristic of an intelligent child.

Drawing not only can train children to be more sensitive to objects and things around them, but also can train children's ability to differentiate distance and measurement.

Drawing and Children's Mental Development
Learning to draw obviously can train and increase children's mental development into a better direction. Children's concentration will be increased naturally through drawing activities. They will be trained to concentrate to what they're drawing on the drawing paper in front of them and to how to properly finish every details of their drawing.

Learning to draw can also train children's patience and persistence. They will be trained to accept their drawing results even though it's not good enough, and become motivated to draw better. This will teach children to be more diligent and persistent. As a note, here is where parents role is, which is to encourage their children not to give up easily, and motivate them that they must keep trying to get a better result in the future.

Drawing and Children's Motor Development
When practicing drawing, the smooth muscles around children's fingers and hands are developing and become trained. This will make children more skilled, which then make children more confident.

Learning to draw is a positive activity. Besides entertaining, learning to draw can educate children and help children's development.