How old was your child when they first drew something recognisable?

[Nai]

DD1 was under 2.5 when she first drew a person and the carers at childcare were amazed - they said it was very young to be drawing that. She is 4 now and writes and draws well so I think it will mean that your little one will have good fine motor skills when it come to things like that.

[Epacris]

Aww, that’s lovely, very clever. I’m still waiting for my DS to draw something recognisable. He will be four soon and he still just scribbles. He will draw a person type thing but only if someone helps by talking him though how to do it. He’s just not interested. They’re all individuals.

[megs]

My eldest son was around 3 1/2 before he started drawing pod people. My DS who coming up 4 is only just drawing them now. Must say though that my boys have not shown any great interest in drawing. They tend to be more into jigsaws and outside play. I also agree it is all just indiviual.

[~Kim~]

ooh clever girl!
Like Nai, my little miss started recognisable stuff about 2.5-2 3/4. She just loves to draw and colour and write and would do it all day everyday if I could keep the supplies up.
I saw an excellent article recently about the stages of drawing. Will see if I can find it and PM you.

[Nettie]

My DS is 2 and 4 months and has just progressed to circles after doing straight lines for quite a while!

Kim - do you think you could send me that link too? Just out of curiosity!

Poppetty - I love that she's drawing hats!

[Lisa]

I think you have a little artist there!

My DS2 started to draw people just after his 3rd birthday. They always had sad faces though as he couldn't work out how to do the semi circle the other way. He has finally worked that out though so now we get lovely long legged drawings of us with massive smiles. Gotta love their early artwork

[~Kim~]

Done Nettie