More: 11 Fun Summer Crafts & Activities for Kids Christopher Hastings, a psychologist who has been conducting psychological evaluations of children and adolescents for over 10 years and often uses projective drawings to aid in interpretation, cautions parents not to separate their child’s artwork from their child and who the child is as an individual. In doing so, these pros have found that even the most creative kids tend to draw the same types of objects or use similar colors when they’re experiencing certain emotions.īut don’t get carried away and start overanalyzing every line, circle and dot your kids put to paper.
Many mental health professionals who work with children use artwork as a way of better understanding their young patients and unearthing some feelings kids can’t quite articulate verbally.
