My latest project with my 4 year old (and hopefully soon with my 2 year old!) was to have her scribble free-form on a large watercolor paper, and then to see a scene emerge, and paint in the details. She scribbles, I paint. She's in this interesting space right now where she can draw animals/shapes etc really well, but she's still able to draw very freeform and in a non-object oriented way when tasked to do so. It's a little harder for adults - we're so trapped in our minds of regular shapes and relationships. It's a great exercise in freeing the brain!
So, I asked her to draw freeform on watercolor paper (we used a water-based black ink):
When she was done, I had a look and within 5 seconds saw a "sea scene" emerge - I saw the big circle as a setting sun, I saw fish, even a little swan at the bottom. Sails of a boat. Another whale in the distance. Birds in the sky. And so I painted it in - she wanted the whale on the lower left to be purple. :) And so we have, "Whales at Sunset":
And here's how they look side by side:
She was so excited with the result, she wanted to do another one right away... so I'm sure we'll be doing more of these. It was very fun and fulfilling for both of us!
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