STUDY ON THE FEATURES OF 6 AND 7 YEARS OLD CHILDREN’S DRAWINGS

Study on the Features of 6 and 7 Years Old Children’s Drawings. Our purpose was to find answers to the following questions: Which were the main features shared by drawings realised by 6 and 7 years old children attending kindergarten?; Did all children’s drawings, at the respective age, share the features we identified? The hypothesis we wanted to test was the following: were there several phases to be identified in children’s drawings and if that was the case did 6 and 7 years old children had features characteristic to other phases too? We analysed drawings realised by 12 children attending a rural kindergarten and we used an assessment sheet where we included features of 6 and 7 years old children’s drawings that we deduced from the literature we researched and as a result of our observations. After analysing drawings we reached the following conclusions: 1) there were several general features (exemplarity; transparency; bending; schematism; irregular character of the drawings, copying other children’s drawings, preference for a certain theme, representing perspective through winding roads and railways; not observing the rules of proportion for the represented objects); 2) drawing people required observing certain rules (drawing clear borders and differentiating the body parts, differentiating men from women, drawing certain face details, representing arms and legs with a double line, additional structure of drawings); 3) in children’s drawings we identified also features characteristic of other phases, and thus we verified our research hypothesis: placing the elements they drew at the bottom of the page as well as on a line, either at ramdom or in an integrated way; representing “little persons – the Mr.”; using a series of integrating ways: referenced forms, embracing forms, and stop-repeat forms.