Learn the first steps of analyzing Children's Drawings

You probably often look at a child's drawing wondering whether it means anything, and if so, what exactly? Can a drawing provide insights about a child's personality or difficulties? Can it be used as a tool to help a child cope with issues in his life?

Children's drawings have been thoroughly studied for decades, from as early as 1880, enabling us to unlock the mysteries behind them. In this lesson you will get the basic tools for analyzing various children's drawings and unlocking their secrets, so that later you will be able to give them the support they need.

This lesson is the first in our series of lessons about analyzing children's drawings and is therefore an essential basis for in-depth understanding of the topics learned in the other lessons.

The wide range of practical tools acquired in this lesson will prove useful whenever you evaluate any drawing, as well as the child's environment as it affects him when drawing. These tools will give you the ability accurately interpret children's drawings.

Lesson Content

In this online lesson you will learn:

Whether children's progress is age-appropriate
The development process of children's drawing: From infantile scribbling at age 2 to realism (around age 12), this stage-by-stage review, supported by recent research findings, will enable you to identify the stage your child is in.

The golden rules for quality analysis
In order to make sure your analysis is accurate and unbiased it is advised to follow a few basic rules. We will teach you these rules step by step so you will be able to arrive at accurate interpretations of children's drawings.

You will get to know the prerequisites for analysis, so you can later make sure that you have collected enough information about the child and his drawings before actually analyzing the various elements and ascribing emotional meaning to them.

Did a child copy his drawing from another child?
Kids come back from kindergarten with a stack of drawings. Many parents and professionals ask themselves: How do we know which are really their own? Did anyone help them? You will learn tools to identify whether copying of a certain drawing is cause for alarm because it indicates distress, or whether it is normal.     

Some fascinating facts about drawing tools
In this part you will learn about the emotional meanings hiding behind each drawing tool, as well as the tools' influence on your ability to analyze a drawing. We will review the most common tools: watercolors, pencils, markers and crayons.
In addition, you will understand the emotional meaning of the different drawing positions.

Why children refuse to draw
Some children prefer to avoid drawing. You will get to know the reasons why, as well as possible creative solutions for dealing with such refusal. For example, you will learn what happens to a child's drawing when an adult decides that it's not up to standard and suggests ways to correct it, or what you should say to your child when he shows you his new drawing.  

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