Approximately between 12 and 18 months, children begin to be interested in pencils, waxes and markers.
It is possible that your child has already experienced the power of having a marker pen in hand and has not been precisely on a sheet, but on walls, sofa and furniture.
It is not a mischief, the child is not yet aware that this is wrong. They have just woken up in him or her artistic skills that are very important for their development and for their future learning.
Do not remove the paintings. Just buy the right ones (only thick pencils, wide waxes without wrapping and super-washable markers) and show him what is painted on the sheets and not on the walls.
You can see that the first scribbles are uncontrolled, impulsive strokes, which to make them the baby moves the whole arm from the shoulder, later he will learn to do it from the elbow and then control the wrist and fingers.
But why scribbling, what are pure studs for us, is so important to them? Because, in addition to developing the child's creativity, they help him express what he feels, promote his autonomy, and, mainly, because It is prior to the ability to write.
In the first phase of scribbling, what worries him most is to fill the scratch sheet, sometimes even looking away, without paying attention to the paper. Nor is he too interested in the colors he uses. It is a mere motor discharge.
However, although they seem to be irrelevant, those strokes are his first graphic expression, so the best thing we can do is encourage parents to paint at ease (if it is on the sheets, better), celebrate their creations and place the drawings in a visible place of the house.
Although it seems not, we will be helping you to take your first step to artistic stardom, who tells you that tomorrow you don't end up selling those scribbles for millions. And if not, they will also be a great memory.
