Children's Drawings

I am fascinated by the psychological implications behind kids' drawings.

There are galleries devoted to children's drawings:

• NaturalChild.org's Global Children's Art Gallery
• Google: one, two, three
• Flickr's "Kids drawings" group (and)
• Paintings based on children's drawings
• Kid depictions of the September 11th, 2001 World Trade Center attacks
• Irritatingly coherent children's drawings from the Spanish Civil War
• Even children's drawings of wartime atrocities in Darfur
• A paper (without pictures) about psychology, interpreting drawings and how children use drawings as expression
• Psychology resource:  The stages by which drawing develops in children (from a design website).

I have been collecting Lana's drawings.  Now that she is five years old and attending kindergarten, it's fun to look back on her progress.
From this:

Roses

A cookie, a candy cane and a lot of goodies (with nuts)

A crown

To this:

A mermaid with an octopus and a starfish

Duckling on a moving chair (motion lines) watching a camera

To this:

Crocodile with numbers

A sheep (tail wagging with motion lines) or a goat without horns (a big cow took its horns)

To this:

Baby with sign language for "baby"

A cat with a big rainbow

A rose, blue bell, dandelion with rainbow, clouds and sun

A dolphin with bubbles and seaweed

In fact, I think I will slowly put up a drawing or two (or two hundred) and show them off to the world.  The internet has just become my refrigerator.