5 tips to channelize the inner artist in your child without damaging your home
Jan 04, 2017 Interiors
Text: Saylee Soundalgekar
Photographs: iStock
Photographs: iStock
As soon as he can grip a pen, a child pours forth his imagination on anything he can get hold of: walls, floors, doors, the important document you had to submit tomorrow… That blob is actually a fish, can’t you see? And that stroke with a bright red crayon is a car that just whizzed by… All these masterpieces have high sentimental value, and a surprisingly large number is endearing enough to be displayed! Architect Sidharth Garimella tells us how to keep the child’s art progressing and take care of the home at the same time.
- A band of thick paper, a white board or a canvas can be run at the height of the kid up to his hand’s reach. This becomes his arena of art where he scribbles, draws and develops his skills as an artist! This could be done in his personal room or any room where he spends most of his time. As the child grows, this can become his canvas for motifs, graffiti or learning aids for alphabets and numbers.
- The stack of empty shelves can display the child’s rubber toys or photographs in the beginning. As the kid grows up, they could display his newly developed interest in paper quilling, clay work and Lego blocks. This is where the built-in edifice becomes a state of architecture!
- Children love to be in the tiny cave-like spaces. These alcove spaces can be tucked under the staircase, or below the study table where the ceiling height is restricted between two to four feet. This could be yet another display area where the child could admire his own work for long. Later, these could be transformed into storage spaces.
- A string across the room or along a wall could clasp a series of papers with dabs of paints as the child learns to paint. It could hold origami or bead-art that the child has learnt at school. While beams of light percolate through these drapes, the room will be rendered vibrant and colourful. These strings can later ‘contain’ the past memories in the post-cards, greeting cards, dream vacation destinations and photographs, thus transforming the room at every stage of his life.
- Blackboard paint or chalkboard paint is an easy way of converting any surface into a reusable drawing board. This will also save you a lot of scrubbing and cleaning too, especially if your child is a prolific artist!
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