GT-shadows [8] are tantalizing objects that can be thought of as approximations of elements of the mysterious Grothendieck-Teichmueller group GTˆ introduced by V. Drinfeld in 1990. GT-shadows form a groupoid GTSh whose objects are finite index subgroups of the pure braid group PB4, that are normal in B4. The goal of this paper is to describe the action of GT-shadows on Grothendieck's child's drawings and show that this action agrees with that of GTˆ. We discuss the hierarchy of orbits of child's drawings with respect to the actions of GTSh, GTˆ, and the absolute Galois group GQ of rationals. We prove that the monodromy group and the passport of a child's drawing are invariant with respect to the action of the subgroupoid GTSh♡ of charming GT-shadows. We use the action of GT-shadows on child's drawings to prove that every Abelian child's drawing admits a Belyi pair defined over Q. Finally, we describe selected examples of non-Abelian child's drawings.