Coloring is first and foremost a fun activity. This is why you will generally have no trouble deciding your child to color and it is even often he who will ask you to do so. The multitude of themes covered in the coloring pages Värityskuvat will ensure that there will always be at least one to interest each child.
All baby animals and young humans learn through play, a playful activity will always be more beneficial. This is how all the benefits listed below will be favored by the fact that coloring is entertaining.
Develops fine motor skills
Follow the lines without going over, respect the colors, hold their pencil flexibly but not tensely, press enough on the paper with their pencil to deposit the color but not too much so as not to damage the sheet, these are all things that the child will have to learn to master to succeed in coloring. The motor actions implemented in coloring will make it possible to strengthen the wrists, hands, and fingers, which is necessary for easier and more fluid writing. The manipulation of small objects will also be improved.
All this, therefore, allows the child to develop his fine motor skills and promotes his concentration.
By observing a child who is coloring, or can notice that most of the time he is immersed in an inner bubble. That he pays less attention to what surrounds him and frees himself from all the mental burden he had been able to accumulate up to that point. He finds himself in a safe cocoon bringing relaxation and promoting concentration on the task he is accomplishing. Coloring stimulates both logic (left hemisphere of the brain) and creativity (right hemisphere). Applying yourself engages the brain to concentrate.
Allows you to take down screens
At a time when television, games on tablets, or smartphones are always trying to monopolize children a little more, it is good to get back to basics. Coloring appears to be a traditional activity that, with few material means, does more than resist screens. She manages to occupy them for hours without creating dependency while relaxing them.