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Doodling is something that nearly every child enjoys doing. Have you ever known a child that did not like doodling sometime during their childhood? As children, we would have colored on everything we god a hold of if we always had a crayon in our hands. Those colouring activities cannot always be looked at as mischievous. It should not always be viewed as a messy phase that children go through. The question for today is: how can colouring activity build your kids creativity and character?

Activities that involve colors have the power to develop and influence those abilities in children. When children take part in such activities, both the right and left part of the brain is being exercised. What does this do? It helps strengthen and develop creative thinking in children. This is a good approach to developing the child’s innate character.

Colouring activity has immense potential in the development of both the right and the left brain as it requires the help from both the hemispheres of the brain. Why? This is because colouring activity requires thoughts and coordination. Development and provision of life to thoughts is the job of the right brain while the hand eye co-ordination required to get a picture on the paper of to provide colour to the picture needs to be guided by the left brain.

Drawing requires immense concentration and the understanding of the basic parameters which is the same with colouring activity as well. Left brain is used to provide us with this ability. Boundary knowledge (on where to start and finish), as well as which area to work, on is innately understood and executed by the left brain. When the kid holds the pencil to draw or colour, his pincer point is strengthened as well.

We engage our right brain when we actually draw the intended or unintended thing on the paper and give decide various colours and hues to give it to bring the picture to life. Even when kids doodle, they are trying to imitate something they normally see in their environment. They could just draw a crooked line and tell you that it is a rainbow!

That picture or doodle may be far from what a rainbow actually looks like. However, you need to realise that your kid is actually trying to draw a rainbow! This shows that he is observing his environment and trying to portray it in his doodles.

They remember that those pair of lose lines is a rainbow, even if it does not appear to be a rainbow to us. It is important that you gain an understanding of where the child is coming from. They noticed a rainbow in their environment, captured it in their own mind and by using the right side of the brain, they decided that they would put it on paper. It is all from a child’s perspective.

Character development is also an important aspect of colouring activities. Characteristics such as patience, the need to focus on things when doing them, paying closer attention to every minute details to perfect what is being done are all characteristics that are being developed as your kid undergoes a colouring session. Discipline is the word. Your kid will find this character development will substantially affect his other activities and how he behaves in circumstances. The more engaged you keep your kid in colouring activities, the better would be the result.

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