Discuss coloring pictures with me please. - Page 2

[kayleesmom]

My son doesnt color even a few lines I think ur daughter is ok ask pediatrician

[Blessed_Mom]

I heard you! :-)

I took away her coloring books and gave her some plain paper books and she is scribbling away. I think we both are happy now. The coloring books put too much pressure on her and I think she could sense my puzzlement.

Thank you guys.

[octobermom]

My mother teaches preschool and runs a home based bussiness (a true preschool not a daycare) so Ive seen 30 years of drawing and coloring from incomming 2.5 year olds (older than your DC) to ready for kindergarden 5 year olds..

 What you describe is TOTALY normal. Coloring is hard and its a more "advanced" thing in the motor skills it takes. I agree with those that suggest ditchiong the coloring for plain paper and jsut letting her draw scribble ect.. Also give her diffrent medium and ways to draw playdoh finger paint paper on easels on the floor brishes sponges ect you'll be shocked how much she will progress as she matures.. Its a really fun journey.. And if sehs likes coloring books that is fineas well jsut don't worry about scribbles lines etc.

Deanna

[hildare]

i personally dislike coloring books & hope to never have them around... sorry, no help here.  i wouldn't worry, though.  maybe your kid doesn't like them either?

[akind1]

When I was working in a preschool aged room in a day care we weren't allowed to give pictures for the LO's to color (this was an age 3-5 classroom) - only plain paper, because it was thought to encourage more creativity.

My DS is not as old as your LO; he's just 21 months. He will flip over pages to find blank space to color. He doesn't like pre-drawn pictures at all! Even with sidewalk chalk he will fill up one "square" of sidewalk and run to find an un-colored in area. I wouldn't be concerned really. Coloring inside the lines is over-rated ;)

I think there are likely more and better ways to encourage fine motor skills than coloring pictures.

[jessemoon]

My son had no interest in drawing or coloring AT ALL until he was 51/2.  He would, under duress, perhaps draw a picture for someone's birthday and it was always cursory and he didn't like the process at all. Now, at 71/2 he draws up a storm, but has never colored in a coloring book. He doesn't see the point.

My daughter (4) has loved to draw from the time she could hold a crayon (mostly scribbling until recently) and ADORES coloring.  She loves to fill in the shapes with her favorite colors (usually bearing little relation to reality).  I worried that coloring books might stifle her creativity (my mother is an early childhood expert and I was never allowed coloring books) , but she loves them and does lots of more free-form art as well. She is just a kid who likes working with her art supplies. I've decided that she can do both without it ruining her artistic experience.

Kids are different...give them art supplies and time to create and eventually, they probably will.

[octobermom]

I think there are likely more and better ways to encourage fine motor skills than coloring pictures.
 

lots. rice and bean play is great allow them to pick up things with tweezers play with eye droppers ect.. Stringing things lacing cards ect are great fine motar skills. play dolls with zippers buttons and snaps, picticking up and handling coins or play money, free hand art and free coloring using "tools" such as screwing and unscrewing ,sissors, atempting lock and keys even simpily turing the pages in a favorite book.. All promote and practice fine motar skills and will improve writing.

[reezley]

Originally Posted by Blessed_Mom 

I heard you! :-)

I took away her coloring books and gave her some plain paper books and she is scribbling away. I think we both are happy now. The coloring books put too much pressure on her and I think she could sense my puzzlement.

Thank you guys.

I was going to add my "that's normal" to the replies, but saw your update.  By the way, my ds1 never has had interest in coloring. He was actually advanced with writing and fine motor, but give him a page to color and he basically ignored it - even now at 6yo he tends to experiment with mixing colors and ways to use the crayons, not coloring the picture.  DS2 loves to color, so much more "typical" but funny to me!

[foreverinbluejeans]

I don't think kids should ever color pictures or that coloring books should exist.

[tuesdaymom]

I thin every kid is different. DD 27 months started coloring in the lines this past month. She has been ahead with fine motor/verbal etc. She was scribbling @ 9 mmonths making circles @ 14 months. Me I still can't color or draw to save my life. My husbands side are all artistically and musically gifted on both. sides.