We draw complex dictations by cells. A fun activity for preschoolers - graphic dictations

Egorova Natalya Viktorovna

Fun activity for preschoolers –

graphic dictations.

Drawing by cells– a very exciting and useful activity for children. This is a playful way to develop a child’s spatial imagination, fine motor skills of the fingers, and perseverance.

Graphic dictations help develop attention, the ability to listen to the teacher, and spatial orientation. They will also prepare your child's hand for writing. They will teach the baby to be more attentive. This is a great way to develop logic, abstract thinking, and meticulousness. With the help of these activities, the child develops, corrects the correctness of his movements, “gets a steady hand,” this skill will help him in school. Graphic dictations can be successfully used from the age of five.

What are graphic dictations? Graphic dictations are drawing in cells using the pointers in the task. To complete them we will need: a sheet of paper on which the cells are drawn, a pencil, an eraser. The tasks contain arrows (showing direction) and numbers (showing the number of cells that need to be passed in the indicated direction). If you follow the signs accurately and carefully, draw a line in the right direction at the right distance, you get a picture. It could be an animal, various objects, vegetables, fruits, trees, transport and much more.

Drawing by cells - a good way to teach your baby to use a pencil and pen. Teach how to hold it correctly, practice so that your fingers don’t get so tired from holding an object at school. This exercise will help teach your child to count correctly; here you will need to count the cells so that by drawing a line you will get a picture.

I practice graphic dictation, both with the whole group of children and in individual lessons with children. Children really like these exercises. Children also take great pleasure in drawing themselves on lined sheets with tasks.

How to do graphic dictation

(Rules for drawing by cells).

Graphic dictation can be performed in two versions:

1. The child is offered a sample of a geometric design and asked to repeat exactly the same design in a checkered notebook.

2. An adult dictates a sequence of actions indicating the number of cells and their directions (left, right, up, down). The child does the work by ear, and then compares his image of the ornament or figure with the example in the manual using the method of superimposition.

When offering children such tasks, the teacher must observe certain rules. la:

When the teacher begins to dictate, he cannot pronounce any other words. And even more so repeat the same direction twice.

Dictations are written in complete silence.

If the child gets confused, he quietly puts down the pencil and calmly waits until the teacher finishes dictating. Only after this can you find out the error.

I start getting acquainted with the cage from the middle group.

I start work with the simplest thing - I write tasks in a notebook with a large square, the child must continue the row. Learning to see a cell and a line. We write sticks, squares, corners, simple patterns, each time complicating the tasks. We first divide the patterns into segments - we train, then all the particles are assembled into a pattern.

The following notations are used in the tasks: the number of cells being counted is indicated by a number, and the direction is indicated by an arrow.

Before you start writing a graphic dictation, you should explain to the children how the dictation will be carried out. First, we talk with the children that I will dictate to them how many cells the lines need to be drawn and in what direction. And they will draw these lines along the cells without lifting the pencil from the paper, and then together we will see what happens. Encourage the children to try to draw straight and beautiful lines, then the drawing will turn out wonderful.

For the first time, you can draw on the board with the children so that they can see how they need to work, and the children will be able to complete subsequent dictations without prompting. Before the dictation, you need to repeat where the right and left hands are, how to draw a line to the right and left. You can agree with the children about any marks (draw the letters “p” and “l” on the board, make marks on the walls, or stipulate that, for example: the right hand points to the window, and the left to the bedroom, etc.)

Then we move on to drawing under dictation.

To begin with, on the sheet with the dictation, in the upper corners, you need to mark - right and left. We give the child a squared notebook sheet, a pencil and an eraser.

In older groups, at the top of the picture we always indicate how many cells need to be moved away from the edge and top to start the dictation. In the indicated place, for example: retreat 5 cells from the edge to the left, count 6 cells from above. This is where you need to put a point. For younger children, it is better to count the cells on their own and set a reference point (from this point the child will draw lines under dictation).

It’s better to start with the simplest: - one cell up (1, one cell to the right (1), one cell down (1), one cell to the left (1). The result is a square.

You need to dictate clearly, the child must perceive everything by ear. At the end of the work, look at how well the children’s figures coincide with the given elements. Review the sample. If the baby made a mistake, find out together where exactly. You can use an eraser to wipe away the point of failure and continue. The main thing is to support the child, praise him, if something doesn’t work out, you can offer to redraw the picture from the original.

Before each lesson, be sure to talk with your child about the fact that there are different directions and sides. Show him where is right, where is left, where is up, where is down. Pay attention to the baby that every person has a right and a left side. Explain that the hand with which he eats, draws and writes is his right hand, and the other hand is his left. For left-handers, on the contrary, it is necessary to explain to left-handers that there are people for whom the working hand is the right, and there are people for whom the working hand is the left.

This activity includes graphic dictation, discussion of images, tongue twisters, tongue twisters, riddles and finger gymnastics. Each stage of the lesson carries a semantic load. Activities with your child can be arranged in different sequences.

Application:

Convenient and versatile training for children's minds. The usual training goes as follows: an adult says how to draw on a sheet of paper in a box, and the children implement it by translating the words into lines.

There are many drawings on the Internet - simple and more complex - drawn at right angles, along straight lines. The orientation is simple: know “right-left”, “up-down”, and count more precisely.

Types of graphic dictations

Fence
Items
Items with complex steps

It is useful to teach three types of graphic dictation. Be sure to accompany the words with a show. Sit nearby so that the drawing is not upside down for the child.

Fence

The stitch repeats the pattern of the sample.

Everyone knows too. But I want to draw your attention: here it is useful to introduce the concept of a step. Drawing with straight lines at an angle of 90, we tell the children:

– Now we will walk through the cells. The cage has four corners. By drawing a line from corner to another corner, we take one step. We step up, down, right or left, wherever I tell you. If I say: two cells up, then you draw a line from a corner to another corner, and from that to a third corner. That is, you take two steps.

The result is a well-known pattern of repeating elements. At the initial stage, the child needs to be helped, prompted, asking: to the right is where, up is where. When you gain confidence in drawing a graphic dictation in cells, make life more difficult.

Suggest: now dictate how to draw next. This complication works well when working in a group. There is additional interest and awareness of what I should do in the next moment (beginning of forecasting).
When a couple of elements have been drawn under dictation, we suggest: continue on your own until the end of the line.

The second complication is diagnostic. It is clearly visible whether the child pays attention to the already drawn sample, how many mistakes he makes, whether he sees them and corrects them. It is very good when children see mistakes and try to correct them: self-control has appeared - the most important quality for a future student.

Items

I won’t even describe it - everyone knows it. The Internet is full of examples. A closed contour is drawn. I would like to note one useful complication for symmetrical drawings: we draw half under dictation, and complete the second half in a mirror image of the first, like the Christmas tree in the drawing. A robot, a butterfly and others will do. the main thing is that they are symmetrical. The perception of symmetry in modern children is not up to par. Symmetrical diagrams will be useful for primary school students in grades 1 - 4 in mathematics lessons. For a change.

Complex graphic dictations

Children from the preparatory group quickly master simple graphic dictations and are not against making the drawings themselves more complex. Therefore, we move on to more complex options with oblique lines (not 90 degrees, more or less). Not every high school student can handle complex graphic dictation. It’s all the more valuable when the preparators handle them.

Items with complex steps

How to draw a line from dictation where you want to connect the corners obliquely, diagonally? It's actually not that simple. This work is akin to orientation in a coordinate system, and this alone is very useful.

We will need a difficult step. Suppose we need to draw a line from point A to point B.

In the first case, instructions.

We put point A. From there we take a difficult step: 2 cells up, 2 cells to the right. Let's put the second point. Connect the starting and ending points with a straight line. The result was the required line “obliquely”. We call it that because when does the word “diagonal” appear in school? It’s even easier when the connected points are inside one cell (option 2 on the sample)

Third version of the instructions.

We take a difficult step: 4 cells up, 2 cells to the left.

From experience, it is more useful to practice complex steps with future schoolchildren individually, especially if the child confuses right/left. At first, dictation with complex steps is difficult for many children. It is necessary to move forward slowly, gradually, so as not to turn them away from something so useful for school education.

Examples of complex graphic dictation

We present three options for graphic dictations with a complex step: crocodile, dog, chicken with a description of the dictation. Drawing on the cells of any other pattern is done in the same way.

Graphic dictations
(Drawing by cells)

Entering school is an important moment in the life of a child and his parents. The better a child is prepared for school psychologically, emotionally and intellectually, the more confident he will feel, the easier his adaptation period in primary school will be.

Graphic dictations for preschoolers help parents and teachers systematically prepare their child for school and prevent such typical learning difficulties as underdeveloped spelling vigilance, restlessness and absent-mindedness. Regular classes with these graphic dictations develop the child’s voluntary attention, spatial imagination, fine motor skills of the fingers, coordination of movements, and perseverance.

Drawing by cells is a very exciting and useful activity for children. This is a playful way to develop a child’s spatial imagination, fine motor skills of the fingers, coordination of movements, and perseverance. Graphic dictations can be successfully used for children from 5 to 10 years old.

By completing the tasks proposed in the graphic dictations below, the child will broaden his horizons, increase his vocabulary, learn to navigate a notebook, and become familiar with different ways of depicting objects.

How to work with these graphic dictations:

Each dictation contains tasks for children aged 5–7 years.

Graphic dictation can be performed in two versions:
1. The child is offered a sample of a geometric design and asked to repeat exactly the same design in a checkered notebook.
2. The adult dictates the sequence of actions indicating the number of cells and their directions (left, right, up, down), the child does the work by ear, and then compares his image of the ornament or figure with the example in the manual using the overlay method.

Graphic dictations are supplemented with riddles, tongue twisters, tongue twisters and finger exercises. During the lesson, the child practices correct, clear and literate speech, develops fine motor skills, learns to identify the distinctive features of objects, and expands his vocabulary.

The tasks are selected according to the principle “from simple to complex.” If you start studying these graphic dictations with your child, do the tasks with him in order: start with the very first simple dictations and gradually move on to more complex ones.

For classes, you need a squared notebook, a simple pencil and an eraser so that the child can always correct the wrong line. For children 5–6 years old, it is better to use a notebook with a large square (0.8 mm) so as not to strain their eyesight. Starting from graphic dictation No. 40, all drawings are designed for a regular school notebook (they will not fit in a large-squared notebook).

The following notations are used in the tasks: the number of cells being counted is indicated by a number, and the direction is indicated by an arrow. For example, the entry:

should read: 1 cell to the right, 3 cells up, 2 cells to the left, 4 cells down, 1 cell to the right.

During classes, the child’s attitude and the friendly attitude of the adult are very important. Remember that classes for a child are not an exam, but a game. Help your child, make sure he doesn’t make mistakes. The result of the work should always satisfy the child, so that he wants to draw in the cells again and again.

Your task is to help your child master the skills necessary for good study in a playful way. Therefore, never scold him. If something doesn’t work out for him, just explain how to do it correctly. Praise your baby more often, and never compare with anyone.

The duration of one lesson with graphic dictations should not exceed 10 - 15 minutes for children 5 years old, 15 - 20 minutes for children 5 - 6 years old and 20 - 25 minutes for children 6 - 7 years old. But if the child gets carried away, do not stop him and interrupt the lesson.

Pay attention to the child’s sitting position during the dictation and how he holds the pencil. Show your child how to hold a pencil between the phalanges of the index, thumb and middle fingers. If your child doesn't count well, help him count the cells in his notebook.

After this, you can open the notebook and teach your child to navigate on a piece of paper. Show your child where the left edge of the notebook is, where the right edge is, where the top is, where the bottom is. It can be explained that previously there were slanted desks at school, which is why the top edge of the notebook was called the top edge, and the bottom edge was called the bottom edge. Explain to your child that if you say “to the right,” then you need to point the pencil “there” (to the right). And if you say “to the left,” then you need to point the pencil “there” (to the left) and so on. Show your child how to count the cells.

You yourself will also need a pencil and an eraser in order to mark the lines you read. Dictations can be quite lengthy, and to avoid getting confused, put dots with a pencil opposite the lines you are reading. This will help you not to get lost. After the dictation, you can erase all the dots.

Each lesson includes graphic dictation, discussion of images, tongue twisters, tongue twisters, riddles and finger gymnastics. Each stage of the lesson carries a semantic load. Activities with your child can be arranged in different sequences. You can first do finger exercises, read tongue twisters and tongue twisters, and then do a graphic dictation. On the contrary, you can do graphic dictation first, then tongue twisters and finger gymnastics. It is better to make riddles at the end of the lesson.
When the child draws a picture, talk about the fact that there are objects and their images. Images can be different: photographs, drawings, schematic images. A graphic dictation is a schematic representation of an object.

Talk about how each animal has its own distinctive characteristics. A schematic image shows the distinctive features by which we can recognize an animal or object. Ask your child what the distinctive features of the animal he or she has drawn are. For example, a hare has long ears and a small tail, an elephant has a long trunk, an ostrich has a long neck, a small head and long legs, and so on.

Work with tongue twisters and tongue twisters in different ways:
1. Let the child pick up the ball and, rhythmically tossing and catching it with his hands, say a tongue twister or a tongue twister. You can throw and catch the ball for each word or syllable.
2. Let the child say a tongue twister (pure tongue twister) while throwing the ball from one hand to the other.
3. You can pronounce a tongue twister by clapping the rhythm with your palms.
4. Suggest saying the tongue twister 3 times in a row and not getting lost.
Do finger exercises together so that the child sees and repeats the movements after you.
And now that you have become familiar with the basic rules for conducting a graphic dictation, you can begin classes.

Mathematical dictations

1st class

The benefits of mental calculations are enormous. By performing oral arithmetic operations, children not only repeat the rules of arithmetic, reinforce them, but also, most importantly, learn not mechanically, but meaningfully. With oral calculations, such valuable qualities as attention, concentration, endurance, ingenuity, and independence develop.

The effectiveness of oral arithmetic depends not only on the correct determination of the volume and content of these classes, but also on their organization: the correct setting of tasks and questioning, the rational recording of students’ knowledge and skills, the correct alternation of oral and written calculations. Most often, tasks are offered orally. This form of organizing classes is the most valuable, as students develop attention and memory, and most importantly, they prepare for “life” arithmetic, where they often have to perform operations on numbers perceived by ear. However, this form requires a lot of mental effort, and therefore tires children relatively quickly, especially those who have a predominant visual memory.

The use of only this form of classes observed in school practice leads to the fact that not all children participate in mental calculation. There are especially many passive students when the dictated exercises contain large numbers or when many listening tasks are given in a row. To avoid this, it is necessary to alternate purely auditory exercises with exercises on visual perception.

The main purpose of the mathematical dictations presented in this work is to help the teacher effectively train children’s attention span, working memory, and ability to concentrate. Based on these goals, the following groups of tasks are given in the dictations:

· operating rooms , in which you need to calculate, solve problems, perform transformations, etc., receiving information by ear;

· brain teaser, in which you need to evaluate the truth of a statement, for which you need to be attentive and focused, be able to listen, hear and analyze data;

· aimed at mastering mathematicalterminology.

The proposed tasks provide meaningful educational material for the stageoral work at the beginning of a mathematics lesson, as well as a summing up stage at the end of the lesson. The development of competent mathematical speech is facilitated by the presence in each dictation of samples of reading mathematical expressions.

The introduction of game elements and non-standard tasks into mathematical dictation helps children who are interested in mathematics maintain and develop interest in it, and children who have difficulties with mathematics understand and love it.

Conducting a dictation can be organized like this:

1. The teacher reads aloud dictation assignments from one option. Students write down their answers on pieces of paper or in notebooks. Immediately (or at the end of the lesson) you should show the correct answers and discuss solutions to individual tasks.

2. Individual students may read dictation assignments aloud as directed by the teacher. This is especially useful for children with poor reading skills, as well as those who have a predominant visual perception.

3. It is useful from time to time in the class to give all students dictation texts for independent work with them (by writing down the dictation text on the board). This is important for remembering the spelling of mathematical terms.

4. Mathematical dictations can also be given for homework under the guidance of parents. This will allow each student to additionally calmly practice reading mathematical texts, slowly understand individual problems, and test their knowledge.

Grades for work are given taking into account the number of correctly solved tasks. If there are 6 (or 8) tasks in the dictation, the grades can be as follows:

Number of less correct answers

6 (8)

5 (7)

4 (5–6)

4 (5)

Grade

Subject. “Comparison of objects and groups of objects”

Goals. Test your ability to count objects; compare objects according to various criteria: color, shape, size; navigate in space (right, left, above, below); compare groups of objects (less, more, the same).

Dictation 1

1. On the top line, draw as many circles as there are tomatoes on the board (there are 6 tomatoes on the board). Color the third circle.

2. Draw 3 red squares on the left and 1 green triangle on the right.

3. Draw a square and a circle underneath it. Color the figure that is drawn below.

4. Draw a square, a triangle and a circle so that the triangle is between the circle and the square.

5. How many nuts are there in an empty glass?

Dictation 2

1. Draw as many sticks as there are triangles on the board.

2. The apartment has two rooms. They made two rooms out of one. Draw as many circles as there are rooms.

3. Continue the pattern by color:

To - red,and - yellow,With - blue

4. Ira has more than 3 nuts and less than 5. How many nuts does Ira have? Draw these nuts.

5. Color the rectangles with pencils of two colors so that 2 rectangles are the same and 2 are different.

6. The cat had 3 black and 2 gray kittens. Which kittens are more numerous: gray or black?

Dictation 3

1. Draw 6 triangles in a line through a cell. Below, draw 8 sticks.

2. There are 5 houses displayed on the typesetting canvas. Circle 1 more square in your notebook than there are houses.

3. Anya lived closer to the school than Valya. Which of them lived further from the school?

4. Name the neighbors of number 4.

5. Circle as many cells in a line as there are circles on the typesetting canvas (9). Color them like this: the third with a red pencil, and the seventh and ninth with a blue pencil.

6. Graphic dictation.

7. Shade the square with horizontal lines from left to right (the square is given on the piece of paper).

Subject. "Numbers from 1 to 10. Addition and subtraction."

Goals. Test your ability to reproduce a sequence of numbers from 1 to 10 and correlate them with the corresponding group of objects; compare numbers within 10, read simple mathematical notations like 1 + 1 = 2, etc.; relate these notes to a specific illustration (drawing); perform table addition within 10; represent the numbers of the first ten as the sum of two terms; solve logical and text problems in one action.

Dictation 1

1. Write down the numbers: 1, 5, 7.

2. The boy caught 2 fish and released them into a bucket. Then he caught 3 more fish. Draw as many fish as there are total fish in the bucket.

3. There are 4 children in the family: as many sisters as brothers. How many sisters are there in the family?

4. Write down the numbers from 1 to 6.

5. Write down the numbers from 9 to 4.

6. Shade the rectangle from bottom to top with vertical lines (the rectangle is given on the piece of paper).

Dictation 2

1. Name the number that follows the number 9; behind the number 5.

2. We added 1 to the number we had in mind and got 7. What number did we have in mind?

3. What numbers are missing if the sum in each column is 8?

4. Complete the figures so that the number of elements in the sets is equal.

5. Old man Hottabych has a beard longer than that of Doctor Aibolit, but shorter than that of Karabas Barabas. Whose beard is the longest?

6. Increase: 9 by 1; 4 by 2; 7 to 1; 6 by 2.

Dictation 3

1. The first term is equal to 4, and the second term is equal to 2. Find the value of the sum.

2. The minuend is 5, the subtrahend is 3. Find the value of the difference.

3. Increase 7 by 2.

4. Reduce 8 by 3.

5. Among the numbers of each pair, find the number that is larger and circle it in the row of numbers with a red pencil: 9 and 8; 5 and 3; 1 and 4.

6. Find the odd shape.

7. The Straw is higher than the Bubble, and the Lapot is lower than the Bubble. Who is taller: Lapot or Straw?

8. Graphic dictation.

Subject. "Numbers from 11 to 20. Addition and subtraction"

Goals. Test your ability to read and write numbers from 0 to 20; perform table addition and subtraction within 20; represent all numbers from 2 to 20 as the sum of two terms; solve text and logic problems in one action.

Dictation 1

1. Write down the number that comes before 12, 13...

2. Increase 10 by 1.

3. Reduce 19 by 1.

4. What number is less than 15 by 1?

5. How much more is 12 than 7?

6. The first term is 7, the second is 4. Find the sum.

7. How much do you need to add to 5 to get 12?

8. What is the sum if the first term is 6 and the second is 7?

9. There were 5 cars in the garage, 3 more cars arrived. How many cars are there in the garage?

Dictation 2

1. 10 is 7 and how many more?

2. What number must be subtracted from 5 to get 7?

3. Find the difference between the numbers 15 and 9.

4. Increase 7 by 5.

5. The minuend is 12, the subtrahend is 8. Find the difference.

6. My brother has 5 notebooks, my sister has the same number. How many notebooks do brother and sister have together?

7. The crested newt molts every 7 days. How many times does a newt molt in 14 days?

Dictation 3

1. Given numbers: 10, 3, 7. Write down the number that is the value of the sum of the other two.

2. Given numbers: 15, 9, 6. Write down the number that is the difference between the other two.

3. Write down a number that has 1 ten and 3 units.

4. Increase the difference between the numbers 5 and 3 by 10.

5. Write down the number that is less than 12 by 1.

6. When 3 liters of milk were taken from the can, there were 7 liters more left in it than was taken. How many liters of milk were in the can?

7. A bottle of juice costs 9 rubles. An empty bottle costs 3 rubles. How much does the juice cost? Elephant, female elephant, two baby elephants
They walked in a crowd to a watering hole,
And three tiger cubs are coming towards you
They walked home from the watering hole.
Count quickly
How many animals did you meet?

Uncle Hedgehog came into the garden,
I found ten ripe pears.
He gave seven of them to the hedgehogs,
The rest are for bunnies.

How many pears does Uncle Hedgehog have?
gave it to the bunnies?

The lady was checking in luggage
Sofa, suitcase, travel bag,
Picture, basket, cardboard
And a little dog.

How many things, including the dog,
did the lady check it in as luggage?

The squirrel was returning from the market
And I met Lisa.
- What are you talking about, Squirrel? –
Lisa asked a question.
- I bring it to my kids
Two nuts and three cones.
You, Lisa, tell me:
How much is two plus three?

Five puppies were playing football
One was called home.
He looks out the window and thinks:
How many of them are playing now?

Here are eight bunnies
They walk along the path
After them
Two are running.
So how much is it all
Along the forest path
He's in a hurry
Bunnies home?

Once upon a time in a dense forest
The hedgehog built himself a house,
Invited forest animals.
Count them quickly:
Two bunnies, two foxes,
Two funny little bears
Two baby squirrels, two beavers.
It's time to name the answer!

Graphic dictations - drawing by cells - a very exciting and useful activity for children. This is a playful way to develop a child’s spatial imagination, fine motor skills of the fingers, coordination of movements, voluntary attention, and perseverance.

Graphic dictations can be successfully used for children from 5 to 10 years old.

How to work with these graphic dictations:

Graphic dictation can be performed in two versions:

1. The child is offered a sample of a geometric design and asked to repeat exactly the same design in a checkered notebook.

2. The adult dictates the sequence of actions indicating the number of cells and their directions (left, right, up, down), the child does the work by ear, and then compares his image of the ornament or figure with the example in the manual using the overlay method.

The following notations are used in the tasks: the number of cells being counted is indicated by a number, and the direction is indicated by an arrow. For example, the entry:

Pay attention to how the child holds the pencil. Show your child how to hold a pencil between the phalanges of the index, thumb and middle fingers. If your child doesn't count well, help him count the cells in his notebook.

Before each lesson, be sure to remember with your child where is right, where is left, where is up, where is down. Show your child where the left edge of the notebook is, where the right edge is, where the top is, where the bottom is. Show your child how to count the cells.

You yourself may also need a pencil in order to mark the lines you read, and in order not to get confused, put dots with a pencil opposite the lines you are reading. This will help you not to get lost.

Work with tongue twisters and tongue twisters in different ways:

1. Let the child take the ball in his hands and, rhythmically tossing and catching it with his hands, slowly say a tongue twister or tongue twister. You can throw and catch the ball for each word or syllable.

2. Let the child say a tongue twister (pure tongue twister) while throwing the ball from one hand to the other.

3. You can pronounce a tongue twister by clapping the rhythm with your palms.

4. Suggest saying the tongue twister 3 times in a row and not getting lost.

Do finger exercises together so that the child sees and repeats the movements after you.

Your task is to help your child master the skills necessary for good study in a playful way. Therefore, do not scold your child and if he does not succeed in something, simply explain how to do it correctly. Praise your baby more often, and never compare with anyone.

Duration of one lesson with graphic dictations:

for children 5 years old should not exceed 10 - 15 minutes,

for children 5 – 6 years old - 15 – 20 minutes

for children 6 - 7 years old - 20 - 25 minutes.

But if the child gets carried away, do not stop him and interrupt the lesson.

1-pattern	14-aspen leaf	27-el	40-elephant
2-pattern	15-duck	28-robot	41-hippopotamus
3-pattern	16-butterfly	29-pear	42-crocodile
4-rocket	17-goose	30-duck	43-samovar
5-key	18th house	31-horse

I never thought that the popular student pastime of drawing pictures in squares means not only while away time at lectures!

This, of course, is not very good - not listening to lectures, but sometimes (in rare cases and if there is a good reason) it is acceptable.

Then we didn’t think at all that this was not a simple pastime, but an action that also had psychological significance, and it would be so popular in our time!

It turns out that drawing by cells in children develops fine motor skills, imagination, and logical thinking. However, all this can be attributed to adolescents and adult representatives of humanity, well, maybe with the exception of motor skills. Now this fun (drawing in cells) has even received a beautiful name - pixel art.

The benefits of drawing by cells in a notebook for children and adults

In addition to killing time and a cure for boredom, developing fine motor skills and imagination. Drawing by cells helps in affirming one’s self.

How does self-affirmation occur? It's simple. There are people who love to draw, but they are bad at it. Well, God didn’t give them talent! And this is where pixel art comes to their aid. You can draw! You can transfer your vision of the world onto a piece of paper and illustrate your thoughts!

It’s also a great way to focus and calm down, which is very important in our fast-paced age of stress and passion.

Drawing by cells is very simple; you can do it in two ways:

on a piece of paper in a box (this can be a simple piece of paper from a math notebook)
apply cells of a certain size to the drawing you like and then systematically transfer it to another piece of paper

Of course, the second method is akin to plagiarism, but no one claims to be the author of this or that copied picture, but you get enormous moral satisfaction from your creativity.

The first method is great not only for children of all ages - from preschoolers to teenagers, but also for adults.

In addition to all the listed “benefits,” drawing in cells helps develop a sense of color. The drawing can be made in color using the entire palette of colors.

Pixel art does not require any expensive supplies - every person has a checkered piece of paper, a pencil or a pen. If you want to add color, take colored pencils, pens, crayons (although they are not very convenient for drawing small details).

If the paper or piece of paper you took is thin, or the markers are printed on the other side, place a thick sheet of paper or cardboard so as not to spoil the surface of the table at which you are working or another blank sheet of paper.

Graphic dictation

Let us explain to those who read this phrase for the first time - “graphic dictation”. This is drawing in cells according to a predetermined algorithm. For example, you dictate to your child which direction (right, left, up, down) and how many cells to draw the line.

You need to prepare for such a dictation in advance. You should have a piece of paper with a clear plan, a dictation algorithm and the final result (what kind of drawing the child should ultimately get).

Positive aspects of such a dictation:

development of mindfulness
development of logical thinking, orientation in space
preparing the hand for writing (development of fine motor skills)
development of perseverance (which is important for modern hyperactive children)

You should start graphic dictations with simple drawings (for example, a ladder) and gradually move on to more complex drawings.

At the very beginning of the dictation, clearly state from which point you start the drawing, for example, 9 cells on top, 9 cells on the left and put a dot. This is the starting point.

An example of a graphic dictation "Klyuchik".

Retreat 5 cells from above and to the left, put a point - it will be the starting point.

1 cell right, 1 cell up, 1 cell right, 1 cell down, 1 cell right, 1 cell down
8 cells to the right

one cell at a time:

up
right
up
right
right
right

12 cells to the left and one cell each:

left
left
up
left

3 squares up.

The drawing is ready!

If you have the skills to draw by cells or have a lot of imagination, you can draw the picture yourself and then create an algorithm. You can do it differently - buy a collection of graphic dictations. Such collections can be for children of a certain age, for girls or boys. Drawing by cells and graphic dictations are an interesting game that helps develop the skills a child needs.

Examples of drawings for a simple graphic dictation.

Watch a video example of a graphic dictation.

Drawings by cells in a notebook, easy and complex

You need to start drawing in cells with easy drawings, gradually moving on to more complex options. Easy drawings are easy to do and accessible to young children. Below are easy drawing options that small children can handle.

Having mastered the technique of drawing by cells, you can proceed to more complex options.

Well, and finally, having learned “cellular” drawing, begin to master the color design of the drawing.

Drawings by cells in a notebook for children

When a little person is born, parents have more troubles and concerns. Raising a child is not just about feeding, clothing and putting on shoes. Education is also the development of his abilities.

Now many different methods and techniques have been developed for this, but all experts agree that it is best to engage in child development in a playful way. Using a method with game elements, they teach basic knowledge in mathematics, native language and much more, what is necessary for the harmonious development of a child.

One of the ways to develop a child’s logical abilities is to draw by cells. You need to start with the simplest drawings, for example, such as a Christmas tree, a steamboat, a flag.

Box drawings will help you learn letters. Having drawn a letter in the cells, the baby not only perceives it by ear, not only sees its writing, but also, as it were, touches it. All types of memory are included - auditory, visual and mechanical (draws a letter).

In addition to the letter, you can write sticks, ladders and other shapes, thereby training the child’s hand and preparing it for writing. Such exercises will help your child at school.

What does a child learn by drawing in squares? Correctly holding a pencil, correct algorithm of actions, counting, creative approach to business, attentiveness and perseverance.

Gradually it is worth complicating the graphics of the picture and introducing colors. The child can choose the color scheme himself, thereby developing a sense of color and color combinations. By the way, such drawing helps to reveal the creative abilities of children.

Drawings by cells, easy and complex for girls and boys

You already understand that drawings by cells or pixel art is a useful activity. When choosing drawings, they can be selected according to interests, separately for girls and separately for boys. Using this drawing technique, you can, even without drawing skills, realize whatever you want on a piece of paper.

Here are some examples of drawings for boys.

And any girl can draw such drawings on a piece of checkered paper.