In kindergarten, each school week has its own specific topic. It can be domestic or wild animals, vegetables or fruits, birds or insects, transportation or adult professions. One of the obligatory topics in all age groups is the theme “Bread is the head of everything”. All classes of the week reinforce this theme: the development of speech and familiarization with others and nature, conversations and observations. On this topic, classes on isativity are also held. This week, children draw baked goods, spikelets and a wheat field. In this article, we will introduce parents to how drawing is done in the senior group on the topic “Bread”.
Bakery products
Starting from the youngest group, children learn to draw various subject and plot pictures on the theme “Bread is the head of everything.” To the older group, they already have the skills of drawing a symmetrical spikelet, rolls and bagels. In the week of bread, with the children of the older group, you can plan an exhibition of bakery products.
The teacher can distribute who will draw what kind of pastries, and the children themselves can optionally. Then, on separate sheets of paper, the children draw a loaf, bread, bagel, bun, loaf, bagels, donuts and wickers, etc. Then all the variety is hung out on a stand in the corridor. At the exhibition of works, you can invite children of the younger group, parents, kindergarten staff.
Meeting with guests
There is a tradition in our country, following which dear guests are greeted with bread and salt. They take out a beautiful loaf on a clean embroidered towel. With children of five years of age in the older group, drawing on the theme “Bread” can be carried out after the teacher’s story about the loaf, considering illustrations of the guests' meeting. Separately, they show the children a sample of a beautiful embroidered towel. The tutor explains how to draw a large decorated bread. In the middle of it is a small salt shaker. By tradition, guests should break a small piece of loaf, dip it in salt and eat it.
Children after the model of the teacher first draw a semicircle of bread with light brown paint. The top of the loaf is decorated with spikelets or flowers of the same color. A white rushnyk is drawn below. After drying, its edges are painted with a geometric or floral ornament. At the end of the drawing, a salt shaker is placed on top. White salt can be made by sticking a cotton swab.
Bread in a basket
Drawing in the senior group on this topic, you can plan the following:
1. First, the children depict the basket. This can be a regular product woven from twigs. The child first draws the contours with a simple pencil, dividing it into sectors. Only then small details are painted over, alternating light and dark elements with each other.
2. Then, after complete drying, they draw bread and bagel, shading the bends of the products with a lighter shade.
3. You can insert several spikelets into the basket in the background. To do this, draw with a simple pencil and then colorize, also alternating colors.
Such drawing in the older group on the theme “Bread” can be done using colored pencils or wax crayons. Since there are a lot of small details.
Please note: if you want to draw such a picture with your child at home, then five-year-old children should already understand the spatial arrangement of objects. What is closer draws a larger size, what is next - small. To draw baskets, they use this angle when the front of the wallet is lower, not on the same level as the back. The inside of the tank is visible. You can draw a pen for it, or you can put a napkin on the bottom of the basket and draw the corners of the fabric hanging from the middle of it.
Bread field
After the lesson on acquaintance with adult professions, in which children watched how they make bread, what people are involved in the process of creating such a main product on our table, you can fix the material in a drawing lesson in the older group. It is not difficult to draw a bread field, but preliminary work will be required.
First, the day before class, you will need to draw a blue background so that the paint dries well. The next day, the guys are already drawing the wheat itself, growing on the field. You can draw yellow, fully ripened spikelets, or you can depict green shoots.
Children of the older group are already learning to portray the movement of objects. Therefore, you need to explain to the children that the wind sways the spikelets and they bend in different directions. They can also be drawn in a semicircle, down. When the spikelet matures, the grains become heavy and pull it down. The lower part of the picture is filled with sticks on which grains are held. Above in the blue sky you can draw white clouds and the sun.
Theme of drawing
The following options can be suggested as additional ideas for drawing in the older group on the theme “Bread”:
1. Treats for dolls.
2. Tea with bagels.
3. Easter holiday.
4. A sandwich for breakfast.
5. Favorite donuts.
6. We bake bagels for the grandmother.
You can fantasize for a long time, which allows a variety of bakery products. You can draw a sheaf in a field or spikelets in a vase. The main thing is that children learn that bread is an important product in human life, therefore it must be protected and treated with respect.