Children's Drawing Interpretation to Build a Healthier Environment

Abstract

Abstract: Children are usually shy by nature and find verbal expression far more difficult; therefore, interactive drawing exercises can be completed quickly, easily, and in an pleasant way to get the thoughts of the children for developing their neighborhood. They can draw easily. Therefore, their views about their surrounding environment can be interpreted by observing their drawings. The research aims to get the aspirations of the children about their neighborhood through the drawings made by them. A total of 200 children were asked to make drawings of the neighborhoods in which they live and they were asked to give their views about further improvements in the neighborhood. Drawings of the children were analyzed by a panel of child psychologists through content analysis. Generally, adults see children as shy and treat them lightly, but drawings depict that they underestimate them. The findings inferred that children are very intelligent and give much weight to their surrounding environment. The result shows that children demand qualitative spaces in the neighborhood for their overall development.