What a 6 year old learns in the first month of drawing classes

In the first month, a 6 year old in our Pre-Junior batch has eight live and interactive classes on Zoom, two a week, one hour each. They work on paper with poster colours, crayons, oil pastels and more, and learn to fill a whole page. The change parents notice is the move from scribbles to a real drawing.

What does the first month look like?

Two classes a week, eight in the month, each one hour long. Your child joins the Pre-Junior batch, which is for ages 5 to 8, so the other children are close to them in age.

The class is on Zoom, but the screen is not the point. Your child looks at it for the reference, then spends the hour working on paper. Richa designed the curriculum, and she and the teachers she trained lead the classes.

Every class is recorded and your child keeps access for life. If a class is missed, it can be watched later, and a favourite one can be watched again.

The first class can be the free trial: the next real class of the Pre-Junior batch, confirmed on WhatsApp with the Zoom link. If your child then joins partway through a month, you pay only for the classes left, so the first month may be shorter than eight classes.

Which materials will a 6 year old use?

The Pre-Junior batch works with these:

• Poster colours
• Acrylic
• Watercolour cakes
• Sketch pens
• Colour pencils
• Oil pastels
• Crayons

That is a lot of mediums for a 6 year old, and it is on purpose. The supplies page has the full list, with what to keep ready for each one.

From scribbles to a real drawing

Most 6 year olds arrive drawing the way small children do: fast lines, colour that goes everywhere, a page that is mostly white. What changes is how they use the page. A drawing starts to have a subject, a background, and colour that stays where the child meant it to.

A parent of a child in the Pre-Junior batch wrote this to us, word for word:

"My child has improved soo much in art . Before she was just scribbling for colouring"

Chaitra, Pre-Junior batch

Not every child makes that change in the first month. Some do it in a few classes, some take longer. The recordings help here, because a child can go back to a class and try the drawing again.

Why try so many mediums so early?

The idea behind the class is simple. Children try many art forms and mediums first, so that later they can choose their own. A 6 year old does not yet know whether they love the softness of oil pastels or the wash of watercolour cakes. The first months are for finding out.

The syllabus is flexible by design, so no child is boxed into one track. There is no certificate programme for the same reason. A participation certificate is available if you ask for one.

Another parent from the same batch described it like this:

"My daughter loves it. She desperately waits for the class."

Zainab, Pre-Junior batch

Is a 6 year old ready for an online drawing class?

Our youngest batch starts at 5, so a 6 year old is well inside it. The hour is mostly off-screen: eyes on the reference, then hands on the paper. If you are still weighing the age, our note on what age a child should start drawing classes goes through it.

The page for ages 5 to 8 has more on the Pre-Junior batch, and the online drawing classes page shows how drawing is taught across all three batches.

What you will see at home

After each class there is a drawing on the table. Ask your child to tell you about it: what it is, which colour came first, what was hard. Put the month's drawings side by side at the end of the fourth week. That row of eight pages is the clearest way to see what a first month of classes has done.

If one of the drawings is unfinished, that is fine. The recording of that class is there, and your child can go back to it on a quiet afternoon.

A month of drawing classes for a 6 year old is eight hours on paper, with a teacher watching and many mediums to try. The best way to judge it is one real class with the batch.

Book a free trial class in the Pre-Junior batch.