We’ve received crayons and colored pencils as a donation, so I thought I should bring those next if children like to draw. When asked, "Do you like drawing?", many children answered, "I can't draw," and "It's better to write."
When we implemented a drawing program for foster children in a different province, children were saying that they can't draw because they’ve never used drawing materials. At that time, I thought that it would be the same as drawing with a common pencil, the only difference is it’s colored or not, but that's actually the case.
In Takeo Province, where drawing was introduced, after several times color pens were used, I see children are somehow drawing more smoothly than before. The latest art program we did was to decorate children’s name tags with colors and pictures as they liked, and a few months before that was a program to read books & draw pictures of the story children just read. There were even some children who put the fish or swans on their tags, the things that they actually had drawn at the time of the reading book program.
It's difficult to draw everything by imagining at the beginning, but later on, without looking at anything they can draw what they have once drawn by observing. I'm not paying attention to their art skills, but I'm happy that what they've done has taken shape little by little.
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