WONDER EASEL
LED Painting and Learning Centre + Swivel Chair

SKU 1488

retail on Finoak.com

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Learning to Paint

A child’s first instinct is try to copy behaviour: sounds, speech, behaviour, etc. When learning to speak, they repeat what you say. The words sound funny and awkward at first, but bit by bit they learn to articulate them and pronounce them more distinctly. It is the same for painting: copying may be bad for adult artists, but it’s great for children just beginning to paint and hold pencils. Our Wonder Easel allows a new method of teaching where children learn to paint though copying.

Firstly, it’s important for a child to get used to in painting. Remember your first grade at school, when you learnt to trace letters in a copy-book. Why not use the same method for your 3-5-year-old children. First teach them to trace first lines, straight and curved, then basic shapes, then easy drawings. It will transform unconfident strokes into confident lines.

Attention to Details

Another significant skill which is quite hard to develop is attention to details. Children are very active and like to do everything quickly. It is difficult to make them observe or analyse something. But there’s a trick you can do. After a child has traced a figure, just switch off the screen and ask them to look at what they’ve got. They’ll see if they forgot to trace something like the eyes of a cat or its tail. You can turn it into a game: have fun with it, imagine a cat without a tail, think of a story even. You’ll see that children love such activities and will subconsciously learn to compare, pay attention to details and analyse.

Colour Perception

At the age of 4-5 years, children learn to perceive colour. Our Painting & Learning Easel can help them with this process and even develop keen sense of colour. To start with, place a picture with no more than 2-3 colours on the light screen and ask your child to find the same colours among their paints and colour the picture. You should not correct them if they take the wrong colour, let them compare and analyse while painting. After simple exercises with matching basic colours, the child should be able to perceive different colours and you can teach them to blend colours to make different hues. The light table comes into its in own here.

A Good Start

Copying is just the beginning. When the children grow up, you need to stimulate their imagination so they can use an easel for painting without placing any images under it. The angle is convenient and compared with painting on the table, it’s better for posture.

To start with, the easel helps the child to work on a drawing. The child learns how to draw lines and pay attention to detail. After initially tracing the image, the child can compare the result to the original and see what he/she has forgotten to copy.

A child's first experience of drawing on the easel is a learning one: the lines are not confident yet, but practice makes perfect. After your child has traced the original image, switch the screen off and ask him/her to compare his tracing to the original to see whether anything is missing in his copy. This will help develop attention to detail.

A second exercise is copying the colour from the original picture.

The child can identify if the correct colours have been chosen. This helps to develop the child’s sense of colour.

The screen can be switched off. This allows the child to copy the picture independently and then paint it.

The child learns to select the colours used by an artist.

The desk can also be used for art and crafts. The desk light allows the child to work on fine details without straining their eyes.

Children may also enjoy creating pictures with glass pebbles or sand on the desk. This is also useful for improving fine motor skills.

The desk is made out of bamboo: this gives the desk a fresh airy look and will blend in well with any interior. As with all our bamboo products, this desk has been specially varnished to protect against water and to make cleaning easy.

When the screen is lowered and switched off, the surface can be used as a normal working desk.

The light screen is a translucent panel with LED lights inside. The brightness of the lights has been regulated according to standards of PC monitors.

The brightness can be adjusted.

The desk features include a roll of paper. It is attached to the crossbar and can be fixed to the frame of the light screen by 2 magnetic bars on the top and on the bottom of the screen. Additional paper rolls (10 metres x 54 cm) can also be purchased from Finoak.

The wires are discreetly hidden, ensuring that it is child-friendly.

Strong leg support.

It is very important to correctly adjust the height of the chair in relation to the desk, in order to prevent back pain and a lazy posture.

The swivel chair has been ergonomically designed with this easel in mind and comes together with it. You can adjust the height according to the health and safety standards on the left.

The seat is made of acrylic which makes it look futuristic, like a chair from a fantasy or a science fiction film or cartoon. It is ergonomically shaped which provides healthy sitting. The stability of the chair is achieved with a five star base made from resilient steel.