His Drawings

He has a variety of drawing instruments: short pencils, long pencils, chunky pencil, colour pencils, chunky colour pencils, crayons, chunky crayons, Crayola's Ta-Doodles, chunky marker pens, paint brushes, glitter glue pens, chalk, normal pens, chunky pens & whiteboard markers.




He also has a variety of drawing surfaces: small whiteboard, large whiteboard, small chalkboard, paper of different sizes, Aqua Doodle & Aqua Draw. Some of them are mountable on a stand at an angle. Some are just laid on the floor or table. I sometimes stick large pieces of paper on the door.



Apart from finger painting, I also let him draw with his fingers in a salt tray. I prefer using salt instead of sand cos I dont know how to sterilise sand!



I give him this much variety for him to practice using various muscles & of course to keep up the interest.



In an earlier post (3 Aug 09) I had mentioned 2 of his drawings but didn't get round to upload them. So, here they are. This is one on a chalkboard & the other below is on a whiteboard.


He says this is a forest of "botak trees". If translated directly, it means a forest of bald trees.


That's his depiction of the sun. Prior to this, he never drew the sun. He never added lines to a circle. Most of the time it'd be scribbles or 2 eyes & a mouth.


He drew this on chalkboard on 30 Aug 09. I was seated with him when he drew the outline of the face. Started off looking something like a heart shape. I then suggested he draw some eyes, to make it a 'smiley heart'. Then I went out of the room to attend to something. When I returned, this was what I saw. Whoa! Looks like a panda's face to me. I certainly didnt expect to see that.

When he draws eyes, it's usually just dots. When he draws a nose, it's usually just a dot too (see photo below of his drawing of faces. It was taken in March 09).