kids drawings of people without arms- mean anything??

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My ds1's drawings of people had a head and legs with no arms or body when he was in reception. Come to think of it they still look like that and he's in yr6. He gets his art skills from his mother.

umm, so try this one:

my daughter at 3 used to start every 'person' drawing with the shoes, then work upwards. Sometimes they'd be lucky enough to get a head...

Ds (6) always leaves off the arms unless I remind him ( or ask do they want any arms ??? hopefully ) but never forgets a belly button or willy!

Hi all,
I would be very grateful if anyone has any opinions on this. My almost 5 yr old brings a wad of pictures home every now and again to free his full folder he has at nursery. I always look at them and notice that out of about 10 drawings there are always around 3 or 4 that are literally scribbles. Sometimes, dark green, sometimes black, sometimes orange, blue and sometimes all mixed colors. When i ask him what it is, he always says fire... Should i be worried?
He loves firemen etc but hasn't really ever seen a fire as such.
Any opinions??
Thanx
Sarah

I don't think there's much to read into it tootsie - he's a young child expressing his version of "fire" - imagined fire at that because he hasn't really seen fire as you say and he's most likely picking his favourite colour at that specific time to make the marks.

It's just his impression of what fire is... nothing sinister

Think about a child's eye view of the world. LOADS of legs - because they are at eye level. Faces also very important (first thing a baby recognises etc). Everything else only important if it takes their interest (I have another child who faithfully drew a belly button on every drawing - DD2 on the other hand draws very graphic boobs, because she finds them fascinating .