Happy Kids Yoga & Children's Art 儿童瑜伽与艺术心灵成长: February 2012

Undeniably, the magic charm of the colour paints does attract most of the kids. Moreover, they will be more exciting and amazed when they actually feel the colours with their hands.

Last week, the young kids experienced a journey of colourful hand-printing. It was a very simple activity, but they enjoyed very much, especially those little ones who first using the Acrylic paints and brushes.

Before the activity started, I had an introduction about the hand for them, i.e. what are the functions of our hands.. what we can do with our mighty hands.. The kids answered: “… painting la~ writing la~ play la~ beat people la~ (yeah, but we can’t simply beat people yoh..) take food to eat la~ wear clothes la…. Etc..” “So our Hands are GREAT, isn’t it? We have to love our hands.. Ohh I Love you, My hands!! Muaks~” They laughed when I gave my hand a very BIG Kiss! :'D They also got to know that the hands have sense to feel the heat, cold, pain, itchiness etc.

The real fun started once they got the paints and brushes with them. Truly indeed, young children do love painting and have fun with colour paints. It’s the nature of every kid and they already have the ability to paint/draw since they were born. They kept brushing their palms with different colours, and printed onto the papers. Soon, the white papers were filled up with colourful hand-prints. Later then, they started using their imagination to transform the shapes of their hand-prints into something else. Some hands had turned into fishes, some turned into flowers, trees, house, dancing hands etc. This is creativity process developing their right brains. Some of the younger kids just drew spontaneously and freely which made their hand-prints looked so expressive.

At the end of the activity…

“So… how do you feel painting the colours on your hand?”

Well~ I guess you already can feel how they feel by seeing their expressions on their happy faces and their art works that tell different stories... (^ ‘ ^)v

* Up: Dancing Hands in Colours
* Down: The Trees of Life

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无可否认地，色彩对小孩来说具有无比的吸引力。尤其是当他们将颜色直接涂在手心上并感觉那色彩的魔力时，更是令他们感到兴奋和开心的。

上个星期，我让孩子们来一趟缤纷手印之旅。这是一个很简单的活动，但他们却是玩得不亦乐乎，尤其是那些第一次接触胶彩和画笔的年幼小孩们。他们不停地要求加颜料和增加不同的颜色。

开始作画之前，我向小孩们做了一个有关于手的简介，让他们对于手有一些简单的认知与了解。比如说，手的功能是什么？我们的手可以怎么样用？等等。。他们会回答说:“手可以拿来画画啦… 写字啦… 玩耍啦… 打人啦…(嗯..也对啦,但不能用来随便打人哟!)… 拿食物来吃啦…穿衣啦等等…”“你们说的全都对了！所以我们的手是不是很厉害呀？！我们要爱我们的手哦！我爱你，我的手! Muaks!!”看着我很大声也很用力地亲我自己的手，他们哈哈笑了起来。我也让他们知道手是有感觉的，可以感觉到冷、热、痛、痒等等。

当每个孩子都拿到放了不同颜色的调色盘和画笔后，真正玩乐的时间开始了。其实，没有一个小孩是不喜欢画画和色彩的，这是他们的天性，而画画更是每个小孩天生就已具有的能力。他们将颜料反复地涂在手掌上，然后印在白纸上。很快地，白纸上沾满了五颜六色的掌印！接着，他们开始运用右脑发挥他们的想象能力，把掌印变成不同造型的东西。有的手印变成了鱼儿、有的变成了花儿、小树、屋子、跳舞的手儿等等。比较年幼的小孩则很随兴地自由地，带着线条跟着感觉走。