For the first year of your baby’s life, their vision is still growing, just as they are. They see in black and white in those initial months. Slowly, gradually, their expanding world starts filling with colors, shades, hues, red, yellow, orange, blue.
And it’s no wonder that babies are so attracted to colors! Colors help them distinguish and understand different objects in their environment. Different colors help babies sort and identify things in their environment, while also honing their memory, improving their understanding of the world and eventually even developing their language skills.
Colors are also a great activity to expose your child to, as young as one year of age. Painting with colors is an activity that is loved by all children, without any exception. No other activity gets a child as involved as coloring. Give a child some paint and you’ll see them making the world; the walls, the floor, the table, themselves even; into their canvas.
When it comes to babies, exploring colors has endless possibilities. And while for a parent or guardian a child painting all over the house is a nightmare, the activity has such immense benefits that I’d say make peace with colorful walls or find better solutions (more on that in a bit).
The Benefits of Bonding with Colors:
Encourages Creativity and Self-expression
When it comes to painting when you are baby, the only rule is probably to ‘paint only on the canvas.’ There are no other rules, and so when a child paints, they play with abandon. This helps them exercise their own creativity, making them more confident. It also gives them a chance to express themselves freely, without any expectation, which again helps their self-esteem.
Fine Motor Skills Development
Of course, when your child is painting, whether they are painting using a brush or their little, tiny hands, they are exercising their hand muscles, making them stronger for the future. This simple exposure contributes big time, in everything from learning to eat on their own to tying their show laces when they are older, to their writing careers ahead.
Colors are Therapy
Art helps a child relax, easing their anxiety (and yes, even babies get anxious), reducing stress and simply improving their mood. It’s a calming exercise and the sense of accomplishment in the end has an overall positive impact on their personality.
Help Build Concentration and Patience
Art is one of the best teachers of patience. When your baby paints, you’ll find them engaged in the activity for long periods because colors make a super fun sensory activity. As a result, the activity improves a child’s attention span while also building their patience since when they work on something for long, they’ll get it wrong and rework on it too.
Overall Sensory Development
As I said, painting works as an all-around sensory activity stimulation their vision, their touch, their sense of smell while also engaging their mind for long durations.
So let your child try to decipher their world through colors and if your worry is that they’ll paint all over the house, then the House of Zizi Acrylic Easel is here to be your rescue.
Our Acrylic easel is a transparent canvas in a wooden frame that can be washed under the tap to be used again. It comes in three sizes: small, medium and large, so you can pick the size that works best for your baby’s room. Also, they can be painted on both sides, which makes them perfect for playdates.
So, Happy Painting! Happy Exploring!