Kids: Room for Imagination
This is one activity both Anya and Vai love to do everyday.
Drawing. Scribbling. Writing.
On the drawing books we got for them.
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They’d sit and do stuff on this coffee table (which has now become their ‘activity table’!) as and when they have some ‘spare time’.
Like, when they’re all ready to go out and are waiting for ME to get ready. Or when they’re waiting for their meals to be prepared.
Well, I must say, it’s interesting to see their progress.
Especially Vai’s.
You see, I got drawing books for each of them (btw, you can find drawing books at only S$1.05 at ‘ValuDollar’!), since Vai was about 2 – 2.5 years old.
He used to just … scribble. All over his drawing book.
And I did think, should I even give him a drawing book to begin with, IF he’s only ‘scribbling’ away anyway, I mean.
But then, I gradually started to see … ‘progress’.
His strokes were not always that random anymore.
Like, when I saw messy lines, … to him, those lines were ‘rainfalls’.
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And so over time I learned something:
Just because we adults could NOT see, imagine nor understand what little ones have drawn, it does NOT mean that what they’ve drawn means nothing.
Sometimes, we adults are so used to ‘interpreting’ things the way WE see them, that we forget about how KIDS often see (and draw) things in a different light.
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Anyway, here’s one of Vai’s latest ‘scribbles’.
It’s a bird – with a crown on its head! And he was drawing a shark right below it!
*smile*
(Did you guess it right?)
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I love all these drawings. I think I kind of grew up pretty fast, because I lost all that touch before 5. But my younger brother draws all these “weird” pictures until primary school, and still does some times right now. I always envied children who can do this.
Btw, my mother bought drawing blocks for us because she didn’t want us to “paint” the doors and walls! hahaha. It’s just too bad that we didn’t have Value$ or Daiso that long time ago. Drawing blocks were not cheap.
My deepest impression was the digit “8”. All 3 of us were obsessed, totally obsessed with drawing 8 or infinity sign all over the house. No idea why. A bit of a problem when we wanted to sell of the house and shift. hahahaha.
Hi Leonny!
I saw you at the blog symposium but I didn’t get to talk to you. A lot of people were around you.
Anyway, I totally agree with you. Kids see a lot of other things that we adults do not.
2 years ago, we start a photography workshop for autistic children. The children were given cameras and allowed to wander around the zoo and take pictures.
The idea was to let them communicate through their photographs, since autistic children have difficulty communicating verbally.
It was a blast! The children were taking masterclass photos! Here’s the link to the newspaper article about it: http://sarked.multiply.com/photos/album/56/2008.06.09_What_a_Difference_the_Lens_Makes
Btw, my photography club is planning to have those workshops here in Singapore. I’d appreciate it if you can refer us to “Persons With Disability” organizations. More information about the activity can be found here: pwd.sg
Thanks and hope to hear from you!