How old is the child who drew this?

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DS just gave me this picture. I know there is quite a lot of variation but how old do you think is the child who drew this?

I thought 4 yrs, only as my son {now an adult} drew cats like that- but the cat in the tree is very interesting.

Encourage your son to draw- and pin up his art.

I remember once coming out of reception class, there was a certain grandmother who called her grandson's drawings ''Scrawl''

''It's just scrawl''

What a philistine! His work was far from ''scrawl''.

@374jtwqj Also...the cats look happy. A good sign!

Awww, school is awful,for this, most kids think they are terrible at drawing, but there really is no ‘good’ in my opinion, just the sheer joy and struggle of making marks.
To me your son’s drawing is wonderful, full of life and wonderful animals and love. ESP the tree cat! Of course love is the most important thing. It’s
such a shame that drawings are judged by how ‘good’ they are. There’s a myth in our culture that you either draw naturally like Rembrandt or youre hopeless. Of course you don’t. You can’t read a book or play a piano unless someone takes a lot of time to teach you, yet kids are expected to draw with hardly any tuition. Humpf.

4-7?

I would say 4-7. If he is struggling with handwriting lots of fun practise, building the muscles in his hand with putty/playdoh, fine motor tasks etc will all help.

My DS is terrible at drawing and his handwriting is awful. He got all A’s at GCSE and A level and is now studying for a masters in engineering. Confidence and non judgement is everything as is self belief and self worth.

3 or 4

4/5

So I’ve caught up on the post. I have three kids and the difference in abilities is astounding. I would say those drawing (how to draw?) books or even you tube videos to follow are fab for confidence building.

It's only the fine motor that's probably a little younger than 6. He's got shading in the sun, different shapes for the trees, detailing in the flowers. It's lovely.

OP,

If he wants to get better, he needs to draw more!! Very few people are good at anything when they first start.

You need to normalise the idea that being good at something comes from trying/persevering/working hard. Otherwise he'll go through life trying, being unreasonably disappointed with his efforts and then giving up.

It is very possible to go from being bad to being amazing at drawing. Lots of progress compilations online.

Someone even said 2 !!

This!! You can learn anything. NORMALISE PRACTICE AND HARD WORK!!

My children draw nearly every day, and I'd say at that age wouldn't have had the ability to draw something as detailed as that. Tbh neither of them is a talented artist but they enjoy the process. I would encourage him to draw and do art at home without the pressure of comparison.

I’m an early years teacher and I have nursery children who draw like that but on the other hand I have reception children who are no where near that too! He isn’t rubbish at drawing, some children just have a knack for it (usually if they’ve been interested since a young age). The bigger problem is his lack of confidence - he seems to have a very fixed mindset (about this, obviously I don’t know him!) I’d be working on developing more of a growth mindset with him and some resilience. Change ‘I’m rubbish at drawing’ into, the more I practice the better I’ll get!

I think the responses after posting his age are more honest. People are strangely competitive and think you were boasting so gave a low age to put you in your place. My instinct was 6 as that is the age my children would have been when drawing similar. Absolutely no way many 4 year old can draw like that.

Your title might have attracted the posters with gifted artists and therefore skewed the responses.

Ask their teacher to see the drawings of the other kids in the class.

It's perfectly fine for a drawing by a six year old.
It's hard to draw with crayons.
He draws steriotypical birds in flight possibly because they are easy to draw with a crayon. His figures are not floating, he identifies the ground, the sky and he has the limbs of his animals coming from the bodies not the heads so his cognitive development is fine.

I would say that he is allowed to be bored by the medium, or the subject or having to draw to an instruction.
Vary your son's materials, invest in lovely pencils, water colours and bright, thin textas and you will see him add more detail and action. Do you have an easel or art table set up at home?

I have children in my nursery class who are 3 and can draw like this but equally I have children in reception who are no where near. 3 is possible but so is 4,5 and 6!

3 if they like to draw and do it often...have also taught year 6 kids who draw like this.

The panic just shines doesn't it 😁

All I can see is a child done their best at a drawing it looks lovely.
Yet it don't seem good enough for some.
Let kids be kids and stop all this judgement.
It says more about the parents judging a child on a normal kids drawing.
I had a mother that would judge anything I did and would post it and ask people for opinions just cringe and darn rude.
I never felt good enough until I left home.

Former primary TA of over 20 years.
Children love art sessions at school. They are not competitive and enjoy the process of putting something on paper. Most of the time is spent arguing over who has all the paint and knocking over water pots.
The differences between what is actually produced is astounding.

My son is 16 and in truth, wouldn't produce a drawing much different from that.

1. He has dyspraxia, which affects his ability to hold pens/pencils and therefore his handwriting and drawing abilities are hindered. He was told off for his handwriting and drawing (blamed on laziness) all through primary school and it wasn't until he was 12 that I realised there was an issue and started getting it checked out. He now has a scribe at school and has unlimited access to a laptop for writing projects etc.
2. He's just not interested in art and doesn't focus his energies that direction. My son is great at football despite his dyspraxia because he practices so much. I imagine the same could go for art, if he was so inclined. He can achieve the same as everyone else, it may just take him more practice.

4-5 I would say.

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