Sunday, February 08, 2009
So Long, Kandinsky
It might have happened a little while ago, but it was just a couple of days ago that I noticed Ellie has made a major developmental milestone: she has started making representational art.
Some time ago, I blogged about another three-year-old's confusion at an adult's attempt to figure out what she had drawn. I decided then that I wouldn't push my kids to draw a picture of something - pretty colors on the page are good enough. Nevertheless, Ellie has started drawing pictures of people. Here's a family portrait she drew yesterday:
The big long purple thing is me (I'm very tall, you know). See my red head, with hair and one eye and a mouth? Ellie herself is the blue figure on the right. Isn't that a great face for someone who has just graduated from scribbling? Baby Annie is the little red thing at the top, and Mama is the red person next to me. She doesn't really have a face, but she has lots of hair (just like Mama really does), and all the little lines going downward are all her "feet." Not sure about that one.
This is evidence that my little girl is developing both greater mental capacity and greater motor skills. She can even write her name in an almost legible way. Sometimes I still accidentally call her "Baby," but she is clearly correct when she insists, "Daddy, I'm not a baby!"
PS - as I type this, Ellie is playing with Play-Doh, singing to herself the tune of the hymn "Now Let Us Rejoice." I have no idea how she picked that up. She never ceases to amaze me.
Some time ago, I blogged about another three-year-old's confusion at an adult's attempt to figure out what she had drawn. I decided then that I wouldn't push my kids to draw a picture of something - pretty colors on the page are good enough. Nevertheless, Ellie has started drawing pictures of people. Here's a family portrait she drew yesterday:
The big long purple thing is me (I'm very tall, you know). See my red head, with hair and one eye and a mouth? Ellie herself is the blue figure on the right. Isn't that a great face for someone who has just graduated from scribbling? Baby Annie is the little red thing at the top, and Mama is the red person next to me. She doesn't really have a face, but she has lots of hair (just like Mama really does), and all the little lines going downward are all her "feet." Not sure about that one.
This is evidence that my little girl is developing both greater mental capacity and greater motor skills. She can even write her name in an almost legible way. Sometimes I still accidentally call her "Baby," but she is clearly correct when she insists, "Daddy, I'm not a baby!"
PS - as I type this, Ellie is playing with Play-Doh, singing to herself the tune of the hymn "Now Let Us Rejoice." I have no idea how she picked that up. She never ceases to amaze me.
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I appreciate your blog. I found while doing a search on Dean Worthen. Im a potential student at J. Reuben Clark and I find your opinions quite interesting.
Mahalo,
Feki Po'uha
feki54@gmail.com
