Benefits of coloring pages for kids – Varityskuvat

It is not easy to answer whether coloring pictures have educational value or not. On rainy days or when we need a break, they usually come just in time. There are great coloring pictures to print yourself on Varityskuvat, the kid can choose one of the pictures and everyone is happy. But is this good for kids? Or are we spoiling their creativity? I consider the arguments of both sides and conclude. Which feels right for you?

Compared to the past, you can not only buy coloring books today, but you can also find most of the coloring pictures online to use as print samples on the Värityskuvat online coloring page. Let’s look at a few things together and let your child decide for himself. You should not make the selection too large. For a beginner artist, just choosing from 3-4 paintings is enough. When you hit the print button, it’s done. Your kids are sure to be busy with this for a while, and you might empty the dishwasher or make an important phone call. If you’re wondering if you’re giving your child this in a meaningful way, i.e., whether coloring pages have educational value: There are good reasons for this.

Coloring pictures promote fine motor skills

Specifically, coloring practices hand-eye coordination. The improvement in these skills is visible: At first, the little ones paint very roughly over the coloring picture. It gets finer and finer over time. They also need this coordination when painting correctly and creatively – and later when writing!

Coloring practices holding pencils

Your child also trains the corresponding hand muscles and practices holding the pen correctly. This is important, otherwise, your hand will cramp and coloring is no fun. It’s the same later when practicing writing at school. Holding the pen correctly is very important.

Thick wooden pencils, possibly with a non-slip outer surface, are very helpful for small children. Later, the pens can become thinner, then ready-made recessed grips are helpful, which specify the correct pen position.

Coloring relaxed

Did you know that there are even coloring books for adults? Yes, coloring is relaxing, but not just for adults! Unconscious tension is relieved when coloring or even when painting freely, the whole system can relax. Concentration is focused on a single DIN A4 sheet of paper, which can recover from overstimulation and strongly stimulating impulses.

Coloring stimulates creativity

Of course, free drawing is associated with more creativity. But not all children enjoy so much creative effort from the start. Your child also has to do something creative when coloring: they have to choose the colors. In doing so, the child learns to picture the coloring picture in their imagination and to choose the right (for the child) colors.

Learning processes are stimulated

Get to know the colors and their nuances, because very few children are left completely alone with the coloring pictures. Parents sit with them (initially) or do something at or around the table. So they’re always ready for questions like “What color is that?” “What color is a face?

When coloring in mandalas, children learn to recognize regular patterns and implement them in color. You have to decide whether to paint similar areas in the same color or a different color. The older they get, the more important a regularly colored mandala will become to them.

concentration while painting

Your child also practices concentrated work. Only if it stays that way does a sense of achievement beckon when the picture is finished.

What promotes coloring pages?

In short, coloring pictures promote

• Hand-eye coordination (fine motor skills)
• pen holding
• hand muscles
• creativity
• Color theory
• regular pattern
• concentration
• Relaxation

Are coloring pages creative? criticism and disadvantages

But not all experts agree with coloring from pre-drawn templates. Many of the coloring pages for children are trivialized or completely unrealistic (living snowmen, airplanes with eyes, or children with superpowers), but depict a very specific, ready-made fantasy world. This prevents children from developing and depicting their view of the world. It prevents them from being creative.

Instead, some say, they are educated to only think in terms of “templates” and to accept ideas that are presented to them. A piece of creativity would be destroyed with each coloring picture. It is purely template work, where the children learn mechanical, mindless creativity according to the “aesthetics” of the adults. Just right for anyone who needs to learn to fit into society without making a fuss. However, most parents want their children to be able to think creatively and flexibly later on.

Conclusion: Parents have to decide individually

It is therefore completely legitimate if you do not buy your children coloring books or print coloring pictures for the time being. If you still want them to be able to color in with all the benefits mentioned above, you can simply draw some shapes (rectangles, circles, stars) yourself, which they can then color in. Mandalas can also be a nice alternative to questionable illustrations.

However, sooner or later (maybe in kindergarten, at the latest in school) your child will come into contact with unrealistic figures and templates – and also with the concept of coloring books. Because the talking dogs with impossible proportions and childlike schemes, who experience various adventures, are not only found on coloring pictures and television. They’re also on t-shirts, backpacks, and most importantly, in other kids’ conversations. So if your child is supposed to grow up in this country, you won’t be able to keep them away from it forever.

As a parent, you will know best when it’s time to give your child coloring pages too – and which ones you think are acceptable. Our son, for example, was not very interested in it when he was in kindergarten – and now he paints with all the more joy and enthusiasm when he is in elementary school. Before that, he learned to paint pictures creatively and according to his ideas, which certainly do not correspond to adult aesthetics, but certainly reflect his ideas perfectly.

And almost all of the advantages of coloring pages mentioned above also apply to creative painting. So you are not depriving your child of any development opportunities if you give them a blank sheet of paper and pencils instead of a coloring picture. Or if your child is simply not interested in coloring.

What to do with the children’s pictures?

Honestly, most of them end up in the waste paper sooner or later. Considering the amount of artwork, everything else is out of proportion. And for the now 6-year-old artist, that’s perfectly fine. Because he never asks for a drawing or a coloring picture again as soon as he has started the next one. All that matters is that

• he does not find the picture in the waste paper, because then he is already sad
• I appreciate the drawing or coloring at the moment it brings.

That’s why many pictures end up temporarily attached to the fridge with a magnet. If it gets too full for me there, I sort out. I keep really good memories that are also valuable for me. Few of them end up in a memory book, others in a pile. This stack is more for me though. I don’t think he’ll be interested in his children’s drawings later on. At least I never missed mine.

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