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Doodling is a great way to help your children think outside the box and use their imagination. There are many activities you can do with your children that involve doodling, but one of the best ways to engage their imagination is using circle doodles.
Let’s dive into this discussion on circle doodles and how they can help your child’s imagination and creativity!
What are Circle Doodles?
We talked about the reasons why children need to learn about shapes in a previous blog post. Now we’ll discuss how children can use that knowledge to create their own shapes and their own art.
Doodles are any shapes, patterns or scribbles that people create mindlessly. Doodles typically take on their own form as the drawer continues working on it. As you get older, your doodles can become more complex, but children can start creating doodles from a young age.
Circle doodles are drawings that your child can create from a circular pattern. There are many variations on activities children can engage in. For example, you can give children a piece of paper with a circle drawn on it, and tell them to draw a picture within that circle. Alternatively, you could tell your children to draw something that’s in the shape of a circle, and then make a drawing using only circles.
Why Do People Doodle and What Does it Mean?
Doodling is an activity that people do if they’re bored and want something to mindlessly do. When you apply that to helping children embrace their creativity, it’s a great activity that allows them to make art without feeling like they must carefully create something. Doodles don’t have to be perfect creations. Allowing your children to use their imagination when drawing eliminates the need for perfection. Depending on what stage of life children are at, their drawings can mean different things.
For young children, circle doodles can simply mean learning how to draw shapes. They associate the motor function of moving the pencil in a circular pattern with the name of the shape. As children get older, they can associate circular shapes with meanings and imagery. The circle on the page is more than just a circle – it’s now a sun or a scoop of ice cream.
Regardless of the child’s age, it’s important for children to begin doodling to express their creativity. From scribbles to intricate drawings, children can learn about shapes and themselves through doodling.
How Do Circle Doodles Help Children?
As we mentioned before, circle doodles help children unleash their creativity. As parents, guardians or teachers, you can guide children to use their minds to create more complex imaginations. What starts as random scribbles on a page turns into an elaborate image. Scientists have even studied doodles and made connections to people’s emotions and feelings behind the drawings.
However, without the base learning of shapes, patterns and images, children cannot reach this level of maturity. Thus, it’s important to encourage children to draw – even if it’s just simple drawings.
Here are 3 reasons children should doodle:
1. Doodling can improve memory retention and engages the brain
When a child draws shapes based on what feels right to them, their brain connects those thoughts and feelings to an image on the page. Studies have also shown that when children doodle while listening to other things, it helps them engage more.
2. Doodling allows children to openly express their creativity
Children can take the shapes and patterns they know and apply those to the art that they create. If you give your child the guideline of doodling with circles, the child can take artistic liberty to create something from their mind. There’s a limited structure that allows the child’s mind to take over and make something unique. Circle doodles allow children to think outside of the box and come up with something creative. They also provide a creative outlet for children to express themselves and reflect onto paper what’s going on in their minds.
3. Doodling helps children relax and reduce stress
Sometimes it’s difficult for children to verbalize their emotions and feelings. Doodling is another outlet for them to visually show their emotions. Doodling can help manage the negative emotions children experience but don’t know how to express. Additionally, doodling is cathartic and can help children relax.
Simple Circle Doodle Activities to do with Children
There are many ways to engage children in doodling activities. Depending on the age of the children, these activities can look different.
For younger children, give them a guide with circles on it and ask them to draw pictures in the circles or color in the circles. You can also help them draw circles on their own and connect each shape to make a larger picture.
For older children, you can give them more creative freedom and allow them to make their own pictures using shapes that they already know.
Whatever activity you choose, it’s important to positively encourage children to make something unique to them – whatever that may be. There are no set rules for circle doodling, and it’s a great activity for children to embrace their creativity and use their imagination.
For more fun, creative activities to try with your children, be sure to visit the Learning Experience’s YouTube channel here!
