My dd is 3yo. When she draws, she still usually only draws random scribbles. She will TELL me what it is supposed to be... But there is no stretch of the imagination that can make it work. Lol.
I don't expect art from her... I was just wondering when kids' drawings are supposed to start being somewhat recognizable.
Oh, she is able to draw circles, straight lines, and a very awkward square and triangle. Lol.
DS just started making trucks, people, cars, etc... last year at 4. Really, when he started preschool. Before that, it was just scribbles and coloring.
Between 3 and kindergarten.
Actually he had his day care a bit worried for awhile when he started drawing Daddy traps - a stick figure with a cage dropping down on him.
At home he use to like to rig pillows to fall down on Daddy.
He really loves Dad (and vice versa) but he's got an engineering kind of mind and was always making forts and figuring out how things work.
Well, mine has been drawing trains since he was 2.5 but of course a train is just a square-like shape with some circles underneath and a straight line beneath the circles (The track). They do look like trains, but trains are the only thing he can (Or will even attempt to) draw.
Somewhere just after age 3, before age 4. My son drew his version of the "Iron Giant". Big robot... I saved it. It was his first picture. Before he turned 4 he was a regular pro and was drawing Batman and Robin figures and notes for his babysitter down the street.
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My first started at 3 or 4yo. My 3yo started a couple of months ago. It was like a light switch had been turned on. She started drawing funny faces.
I think a first kiddo would take longer. Our second had all of her older sister's drawings to learn from. And they are prolific.
That's still within normal. Another yr and you will see circles and ovals turn into a Pearson with little circles on the hands for fingers.
Be sure and ask what it is, don't assume! Ask, about the colors and why she choose them. Never draw on her paper without asking her if it's alright.
FYI, I always thought we could save whole forests by eliminating the paper a four yr old uses! She is perfect!
Every week our kid's daycare sends home his "book report." They read a book, and then afterwards do a series of drawings which are inspired by prompts like - my favorite part of the book was; I thought it was funny when; if I were a hungry catepillar I would eat; etc. His drawings are always scribbles, sometimes shapes, and sometimes scratches. He'll be three in October.
Looking back at some of my early "art". Seems that by 4, I was able to do some stick figures, grass, a house, the sun, and some very oversized birds.
Good luck to you and yours,
F. B.
My oldest started doing something other than scribble pictures around 4. Now she draws great at 5. My 3.5 year old draws lots of fun things --they still look like scribbles to me, but I make sure I ask what it is!
It really just depends on the child. My daughter could draw pictures very early. I saved one from when she was 18 months old and it's an oval with features and arms and legs. An actual little person. Then my son could draw lines and squiggles and started drawing the same type of people and things when he was 3. So, it varies. When he was 6 he took a drawing class, and did very well when instructed how to see the animal or item and draw it, but it doesn't come as naturally to him as it does my daughter. He still doesn't really enjoy it and she draws all day if you let her.
