Tomorrow I’m planning on doing a set of drawings with my class that are referred to as the “Person House Tree” drawings. The idea is that with the very minimal instruction to draw a picture that includes a person, a house and a tree, the child creates a drawing that gives a small glimpse into his or her development.
A book that I have found very useful for understanding these drawings is Audrey McAllen’s Reading Children’s Drawings.
I haven’t found this book on Amazon, but many of McAllen’s other books can be found there, and they are all just as wonderful. Her books Sleep, The Extra Lesson and Teaching Children Handwriting are all fantastic — absolute staples!
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