Preschool Art: Teaching How to Draw
Brayden has the distinct advantage of having drawing classes at home. As the founder of Young Rembrandts, I’ve taught thousands of preschool kids how to draw, but always enjoy special time with my grandson.
In our first few ‘classes’ Brayden, a young four year old, like most preschoolers struggled to hold and control the pencil and crayons. He listened intently to my direction, drew with shaky unsure lines and was surprised at his own success. 
When it came time to color he was excited to choose which crayons to use, but tired long before he could complete the page full of coloring. But after only a few lessons, his time spent coloring, his technique and his confidence showed dramatic improvement.
This is his version of an ice cream sundae!
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Bette FetterFounder and CEO of Young Rembrandts and Author of Being Visual |
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Jan 31, 2013 @ 08:52:06
I first started giving her fun classes in July 2011, when she was around 2 years 4 months old; and we had completed the whole lots of 26 letters, 52 lessons last week, for which she has turned 3 years 9 months old. It took me around one and a half year to complete these classes, for which it was never planned to be finished in a short period. Although she already knew letter A to Z before I introduced the fun classes to her, she was not cooperative and did not follow my instruction on the first lesson. I was wondering whether she could pick up the spelling through my prompting skill, but she soon picked it up in lesson L. I became lazy to continue with the lesson after some time, it was not easy as I was busy with my work, each day after work, I left only a few hours of time in the night before she turned in for her sleep. Chloe was the one that kept reminding me to have the fun classes, she would bug me, nag me, and remind me day after day. I guess, the lessons were really fun to her, anyway, she’s the strength for me to persist on the lessons. I have done up a collage on her from lesson A to Z, when it was done, I was really amazed on her progress, my little princess has not only progress well in her literacy but also physically, she has grown from a toddler to a little young lady!