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Guide to children's development in drawing

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chiswickmum · 05/02/2004 22:12

I've become really interested in the development of my 2 year old dd's drawings. Has anyone come across a book/netsite which looks at this?

Thanks

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cazzybabs · 05/02/2004 22:33

There is quite a good page in Robert Fisher's book called teaching childrne to think on stages of draweing. Can't remeber what ages it starts and my mum has got the book. But I could get her to p/c it and could post it to you if you'd like.

SueW · 05/02/2004 22:57

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butterflymum · 05/02/2004 23:05

This site here gives some basic info.

I have three really good handouts on scribbles (one in particular on the evolution of pictures of humans from scibbling) from a course I did in developing children's creativity in Art and Design. Unfortunately, they do not have a source reference on the handouts and my google searches have drawn a blank. One of them is excellent. It shows 11 stages (in drawing format) from basic scribbles to human images. In discussing it, we learned interesting things such as 'children will rarely omit legs but often leave out arms'.

I looked at my own children's scribbles/art in relation to the handout and it really helped explain their progress so much more than words alone could. Maybe someone else will be able to give you a link to a site that has this diagram.

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butterflymum · 05/02/2004 23:09

Oops, no replies when I started typing. SueW has given you the same one as me. Just a thought, if you really want to see the three pages I refer to, contact me via the option at top of page and I could scan them and email to you.

butterfly (again!)

SueW · 05/02/2004 23:46

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Copper · 06/02/2004 16:20

I'm not sure I agree with 'marking' drawings - I'm inclined to think that if you want your kids to draw, give them lots of scope, lots of encouragement, lots of praise and stick the pictures up.

We did this for dd who is now 15 and getting ready for her art gcse - we saw her teacher at her open evening and she complimented dd on her 'phenomenally impressive' portfolio (v proud - this is not a teacher given to lavish praise).

A couple of years ago we started buying her brothers (then 9 and 7) proper artists sketchbooks, to get round the large numbers of pictures floating round the house, and encouraged them to draw whenever we go out somewhere. They really enjoy this - they get lots of encouragement. I think my eldest ds is turning into a graphic artist - perhaps he'll make a fortune. It's fun to look back at the sketchbooks too, especially if you get them to write down something (or do it for them)

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chiswickmum · 06/02/2004 21:10

Thanks to everyone who has answered my message...I'm definitely going to follow up your leads.

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mrsforgetful · 07/02/2004 02:20

I just wish there was one aimed at Autistic childrens drawings,,,,,rarely people: just cars/washingmachines/houses/clocks/and if you're lucky trains,planes,wheels...get the picture!

My ds2 (undiagnosed...but he WILL!) has a thing about houses....so any picture he drawes has a house somewherein it!

So i examine my boys drawings by looking for windows(panes/curtains/tiebacks) Doors- bell/handle/letterbox/number/)roof -tiles/chimney/smoke....etc this to me is as close as i'll ever get in checking a NT childs peron...eyelashes fingers nails and all the other detail they reckon it shows advanced developement!!

coppertop · 07/02/2004 07:59

By a strange coincidence I was looking at this kind of thing yesterday. My ds1 (3.6yrs) had an assessment at the Child Development Unit this week. They assessed his drawings to be at the level of an 18-month-old. As MrsF says, autistic children don't tend to draw the same kinds of things as other children. My ds1, despite being assessed as being very bright, just cannot grasp the conceot of a face being on paper. To him the face is what is on the front of a person's head and not a circle on a piece of paper.

hmb · 07/02/2004 10:41

THis is very interesting. Dd started to use perspective at about the age of 6.5. Goodness knows where she gets the ability from, as both her parents have 0 artistic talent.

Mumsnet is such a wealth of information

hmb · 07/02/2004 10:42

Sorry, that came across as a boast, and wasn't supposed to Just rather surprised that she can do this sort of thing. To ballence out she is crap at maths....now that is like me

willow2 · 07/02/2004 11:33

Don't want to sound paranoid - but ds, who is 4 at the end of next month, still scribbles and rarely does anything more detailed. Is this normal?

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mrsforgetful · 07/02/2004 23:21

Thanks sue! I will look at that site on monday- when they are all at school!

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