Rynae loves scribbling and I noticed recently that her drawings are more than just scribblings of circles and wavy lines. They are representative and more deliberate. The setting in her writing board captured herein, is in the playground with people holding balloons.According to therapists, Rynae should be at the pre-schematic, or pre-symbolic, stage which begins around age four; however, it may start earlier or later, depending on the child's cultural and artistic experience:
"In this stage, the amoeba (a circle with arms and legs, and sometimes eyes) or tadpole people may have faces, hands, and even toes, but no bodies. These figures face front and often have big smiles. Omission of body details is not a sign that something is developmentally wrong. It just means that other things in the drawing of the person are more important. For example, heads are the first objects drawn and may continue to be bigger than other parts of the body. This is usually done because the child sees the head as being very important. The child eats, speaks, sees, and hears with parts of the head. The child's self-portrait appears as an amoeba person, but it will usually be the biggest figure, appearing in the center of the page. The child may test different ways to draw a self-portrait before settling on one for a period of time. In this instance, art helps define a child's self image."
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