gems from my 4 year old
Mia's dad features larger than life in her world. Aptly illustrated in this drawing where he's "sooooo big, that he can hang the banner on the sky." Everyone is wearing a crown (and these days we have hair, although we've lost our five fingers). Mummy (top left) was an after thought, really, but never mind, we're all there! Sized from smallest (Josh) to largest.
This next drawing was a complete surprise to me - a departure from the norm, and I LOVE it! When asked, Mia explained to me that it's a giraffe... What about these? (On the right hand side...)"Hmmm, it's antler land..." I love the abundance of legs!
Following on from "antler land" is another drawing of two giraffes (legs like ladders!), a snail, and a bee with a STINGER!...and some writing...
posted by linda @ 4:10 pm
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absolutely STUNNING drawings. I have copied and printed and saved them on my computer. It is interesting to see that at 4 years old, she is already entering into the schematic stage (geometric simplified shapes that stand as symbols for things). Watch out for the baseline appearing. This will indicate that she has become more socially aware of her "place" amongst others, rather than the self centred preceding stage where things sort of float as in these drawings. All very lovely. Also interesting is that she has a sense of REAL size of people (based on vision) instead of the emotional value that young children normally express in sizes (and even colours eg green cheeks to xpress the FEELING of cheeks that are rosy rather than the appearance of how it actually looks). At this age self is normally biggest.
ouma
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