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My husband and I laughed our own butt cheeks off when we saw it. We kept the paper. For Posteriority.
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The next year when I would have had her again for art, she paid out of pocket for me to take an art course at the community college across the street. She was an absolutely amazing teacher!
Yes, our selection today is dedicated to all sorts of creative embarrassments that happen when children's ingenuity spills out onto paper without any restrictions from teachers or parents. A few years ago, the user u/redmambo_no6 asked netizens on AskReddit: "Art teachers, what’s your 'Draw anything you want' story?" This resulted in a thread with 20K upvotes and over 2.3K comments.
Sure, a lot of time has passed since then, but painting is actually not subject to aging. Just like the irrepressible (and sometimes inappropriate) creativity of children. So, meet three dozen stories about kids' drawings, from funny to sometimes sad or just plain ridiculous.
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My siblings had similar plate with a car and a rocket ship, mine is clearly much better.
Was around 5 or 6 at the time and totally worth it, still have the plate.
Picture
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Me: Draws white van.
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All these adults question this child about the meaning of her drawings. She tells them, "Hands are too hard to draw.".
The Internet is full of advice on how to properly develop creativity in your child, but the truth is that children are already very creative—you just need to give them the opportunity to create.
As for the unconventionality and sometimes primitiveness of this creativity—don't forget that one of the best-selling and most popular artists of the 20th century, Jackson Pollock, simply used to take a can of paint and splash it on the canvas!
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When I was in school to certify to become a teacher, we had a former principal as a professor for one of our courses who was trying to illustrate how difficult it can be to manage parent complaints and how to approach those situations with administration.
His example was how he had been called into a conference once with an angry mom and the elementary school art teacher. The mom was furious because the teacher had asked the children to close their eyes and draw whatever came into their imagination. His assumption was that a student had drawn something inappropriate. Nope.
The mom was mad because summoning an image in one’s mind was “witchcraft.”.
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When learning art, getting that very "eye experience" that is so important for a professional artist and designer, we take, of course, the tried and tested classical techniques and methods, but at the same time, we inevitably lose something of our own. Simply because it's always easier to take a proven method and bring it to automatism.
However, to what extent would it be possible to consider this drawing to be truly ours?
Moreover, a child often doesn't know the conventions and restrictions that we, as adults, impose on our speech, relationships, and actions. In their spontaneity, they are in many ways purer than us, and it is we, in the end, add put a humorous subtext to the drawings of our kids.
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Girl turns in "ms. [My name] is a b***h", a poem about how she's tired of writing poems and that she's annoyed with me for assigning so many
Includes all requirements. I have her a 96 (a few errors) and the next poem she writes is "ms. [My name] is a cool b***h" about how she was sorry she was mean.
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Teacher handed our work back and first thing he did was grab a pair of pliers and bent all the triangles outward making it a thick metal ***spiked*** bracelet.
I found that devilishly, disturbingly clever.
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If a child simply draws scribbles, there's no need to limit them in this. In fact, kids' scribbles are an important stage in a child's knowledge of the world through primitive creativity.
"The drawing of a four-year-old boy and the 3500-year rock carvings from Switzerland is based on the same mandala archetype we have all owned since the beginning of humanity," Roberta Pucci, an atelierista and art therapist from Italy, writes in her personal blog.
"The process of any child is based on this rich heritage. Upon that, each child will develop their personal dictionary, which I title The Spiritual Blueprint. <...> And unlike us adults – children know nothing yet about art history and do not mean to create conscious dialogues and artistic connections. They are still in the discovery phase."
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I'm also somewhat of a smart-a*s.
We were assigned an exercise to draw our off hand (left if you're right-handed, etc). I asked the teacher 'How far would you like us to draw to?' Her response, "Well, you can draw all the way up to your elbow or cut it off at the wrist. Your choice."
So, I drew it cut it off at the wrist, with exposed bone, tissue and pooling blood.
She was real careful with her instructions after that.
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The authors of this study, published on the Michigan State University website, also argue that if you give your child the freedom to express themselves through creativity, you really help them relieve stress and cope with various things, good and bad, that happen in their lives. In the end, you also help them learn through art.
"Through drawing we are attempting to show someone else what’s in our mind," Dr. Rosalind Arden of the King’s College Institute of Psychiatry reasonably claims in her research dated 2014. Well, even if these drawings look incredibly funny and absurd to adults...
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Be that as it may, we sincerely believe that after you read at least half of the stories presented here, you will be in a more upbeat mood than you were at the beginning. Or, for example, you might remember something similar from your own childhood (or parenting experience) and decide to share it with us. Then please, welcome to the comments—after all, we're always happy to learn some interesting and funny stories!
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