Does your primary school kid draw pictures?

[LindaLooky]

When I was little I would draw people, house, garden, animals - your typical kids type of picture. I've realised my 6yo DC never comes out of school with such artwork.

From the limited drawings he has brought home they've been stuff from video games. He mostly colours in print outs.

It's not a big deal. He can do what he wants but curious to see if other kids have dropped the drawing habit.

Do you get handed traditional kids artwork??

When they leave Foundation Stage and move into KS1 they get little time to sit and draw at school unfortunately unless it's a wet playtime or they still have a Friday afternoon Golden Time.

At home, one of my dc likes to draw and will do so for hours if they're in the right mood. The other one hates any kind of writing, drawing or painting and will avoid it like the plague.

Mine come out of school with stuff and my 7 year old actually has a drawing book this year. They're in school 8.25-4.30 four days a week and when they've finished the exercise they can draw or read.

My 10 year old likes drawing at home, mainly dinosaurs. Both hate colouring in

Was he interested in doing it at home?

Mine occassionaly comes home with some art work from after school club - but not often, if it's not raining he'd rather run around outside.

My year 1 DS now comes home with less artwork from school. He likes drawing at home but will usually draw aliens, monsters, Pokemon etc rather than houses, trees or people.

I was asking myself this exact same question yesterday. DS is 6 and he loves to draw, but he never draws that traditional full page with green grass, blue sky yellow sun. He literally never has.

Instead he draws detailed characters (often new characters for games he likes) and plans or vehicles, but he doesn't colour the page around them. In fact he prefers line drawings and often doesn't colour them at all.

At school their art is specific (currently patterns in nature) and he enjoys it, but then comes home and draws his usual stuff.

Not sure how much she draws at school but is always coming home from after school club with pictures she's done, she draws a lot at home too

We used to have colouring every wet playtime, but now it is too easy to put on a video instead.

They draw as part of their lessons - they might illustrate a story in English, or draw an experiment they've done in science or draw a cross-section of a volcano in geography. They don't just sit and draw for fun during the school day now. They are also doing proper art lessons, whether that's painting pictures inspired by van Gogh, drawing a skyline or a self-portrait, making a collage or a Roman urn from air drying clay. For example in Y4 and Y5 my DD did short projects on Gaudi and Picasso, also half a term on Ancient Greece and as part of that taught to draw and shade the different types of Greek columns in 3D, they also did half a term on post-modern architecture. In Y6 art is more sophisticated: learning how to draw the human body in proportion in different poses, creating points of perspective etc

At home my DD draws a lot, she follows a few YouTubers who supply endless videos on kawaii and cartoon styles, and she copies pictures that she likes. She enjoys watercolour and life drawing too. She usually has a Netflix video or music on at the same time

They don't really draw at school. At home they draw, mainly animals and occasionally among us characters.

Not unless forced to.
So if they have to write a story and draw a picture to go with it, he will. But he would never, ever, choose to pick up a pencil, feltip, paintbrush unless forced to.

My daughter has just started reception and, for the first time, she's been allowed to bring all her pictures home (we had a handful of carefully selected, quarantined pictures from nursery, all year).

So far, we've had a "shopping list" (paper with squiggles), a "card" with four brown splodges that the teacher had written Mummy and Daddy on, and a painting of a headless woodcutter from Little Red Riding Hood because she "was too tired to do anymore".

I haven't had kids in reception for years and I've clearly forgotten some of the delightful creations they come home with 😂

This was one of my pet hates during the primary school years.

Endless sheets of colour in Disney characters at our school but very little actual drawing. I think it's really sad.

My 4-year-old DD does lots of freestyle drawing at home and at school. She definitely attempts to draw our house and our family… though sometimes I have to take her word for it!

She’s also very keen on drawing «snails» and «whales». Sometimes they’re semi-recognizeable.

Mine did. He'd draw all sorts of funny little things.

He also knew how to take the piss. He once painted a car park - it was just black/grey paint all over the paper. I asked why there were no cars or people and he said it was at night time.

All children are different, some aren't interested in drawing and painting. When it comes to drawing diagrams, yours might do that quite well. Also matchstick men/women with funny hats and shoes can be quite popular.

Both my boys hate drawing and colouring.
They wouldn't do it and if they had it for homework they scribbled one colour on the page.

When our first daughter sat down at 2 and a half and coloured endlessly we thought it was amazing.

It never indicated anything more than they hated drawing and they were both excellent at school and their writing was fine.

I think its to aid and develop penmsnship but mine weren't interested at all.