How to teach a toddler to draw?

manpreet Best Answer 2 years ago

The child is 2 years old.

She is very much interested in story books. She can count perfectly till 10. She can recognise the objects and animals perfectly. She could hold pen in very proper way since she was 1 year old.

Now, 2 days back, she has shown an interest in drawing. She knows how to draw a straight line and a circle, though not very perfectly.

The problem is that she wants to draw animals and objects. She keeps on telling me to draw monkey, baby, snake, table, rat etc. I comply, and yesterday I asked her to draw herself all these things. She complyed. But all she could draw was a tiny scribble or a line. She called her drawing monkey.

She kept on drawing scribbles and kept on calling them different objects - repeatedly, until she got really frustrated and threw the paper and pen.

I could read that she knew what she was drawing was nowhere near what I could draw and that was the reason of her frustration.

She she started again telling me to draw things and refused to draw them herself.

What can I do to teach her to draw the kind of drawings she wants?

Of course 2 years is quite early to learn that kind of stuff but she is utterly interested.