Sticker Drawing Prompts

Sticker Drawing Prompts are easy to prep *and* non messy! Most parents will have sticker and chalk/crayons/pencil/pens handy. It’s great to boost kids imagination, drawing skills blah blah…..It's totally fun to witness what goes on in your kids minds! 

Putting a sticker (or a few of them) on their drawing sheet prompts them to draw something else. You may need to give em a few ideas at first so they ‘get' the concept. But after a few tries, it free flows like a charm! 

My 3.5 y.o graduated from drawing with chalks to drawing with crayons, i.e after I tossed out all our insipid wax crayons and introduced rich and beautiful oil pastels! I prefer Navneet’s set of 50 to Camlin’s as they have some cool shades (incl 4 fluorescent ones!). 

The first one I stuck on his drawing sheet were two cats. I nudged him a little, what can you draw around cats? cats love trees! cats are fed by people living in homes! etc. 

Then I pasted a dump truck and a bus. So he drew some debris that was carried by them!

When I pasted a car sticker, he tried to draw another car. a traffic signal. 

A boat prompted him to draw a river, another boat and the sun

From his Peppa Pig activity book, I stuck Peppa’s whole family in a car. So he first drew a large umbrella. Then rain drops. and Then if you notice the blue smudge on the windscreen of their car, thats rain that is being wiped by wipers going swish swish swish!

A duck meant drawing a pond. Then he said “this pond has a tree” but halfway he figured “this is an ice cream tree!”…"Two ice-cream trees!”  The 2 Us on the right top are birds flying high up in the sky! (I’d earlier taught him to draw em as Vs… once he drew upside down Vs and said “These birds are flying the other way around”!!)

Ice cream sticker prompted him to draw another ice-cream cone.

Umbrellas prompted him to draw rain and himself holding the umbrella. Some grass too.

A traffic signal prompted him to draw a van (while I drew the road and tree trunk) he drew the tree top.

Like I said easy to set up *and* non messy! 

The key here though is to refrain from over prompting. Like I try hard not to blurt out “But the sun is yellow, not magenta” or “why is there grass in the sky?” The fact that it doesn’t make sense to us doesn’t mean it doesn’t make sense to them! Free thought and Free expression. Let’s not put em in a box already, and let there be ice-cream trees growing out of ponds!

Until later! Stay in touch!

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