Importance of children’s drawing

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Drawing is certainly the most authentic and original expression of the child’s personality; It is a means of communication and, like language, is capable of expressing, in addition to the level of maturity, even the problems, the feelings, the emotions and the child’s conflicts.

The first graphical attempts children’s doodles are at about 18-20 months: the pencil marks on the paper, these scribbles, are essentially the product of shots, sometimes so forceful to cause holes in the sheet.

At one point, the child discovers that there is a relationship between his movement and the marks obtained; this usually occurs around 1 and a half/2 years age. At this stage the child varies his movements and can do as he like vertical, horizontal or circumferences. The intention to control the gesture is made possible only by the movements’ maturation; the pencil is moved with movements led to the eye. At about half past two/three years the child begins to give a name to his scribble, thereby showing of wanting to attribute meanings: the child does not scribble more for the pleasure of the movement but to represent inner feelings experienced intensely. For children living in a particularly challenging environment, this stage can begin already at 2 years age. This stage is called stage of “scribble meaning” to indicate that there is an intentionality representative.

In four years age scribbles come readily understandable even to adults. Emerge the first schematic human figures; the baby comes out permanently from the phase of the scribble to get into that figurative. Shapeless scrawl give start both the drawing and writing; to draw, however, it is required initially a motor skill less than that required to write.

E ‘at this age the child begins to represent the person. He track human figure with schematic few elements: a circle is the head from which four lines depart who are the arms and legs. It is the so-called “little man cephalopod”, common to children around the world. Soon within the circle two large eyes appear; later, his mouth and nose appear. The face remains for a long time the prevailing part of the man, so that if a child refuses to draw it you can think of the existence of some problems.

Between 4 and 5 years, the child draws the first sketch of the body and often puts the belly button.

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