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The face you draw

⏱️ 5 min📦 paper and a pen🏠 indoor🤲 on their back🧠 Cognitive👐 Sensory

A face doesn't have to be a real one to be worth studying: infants give their most intense attention to a drawing — or even a schematic approximation — of a human face, more than to a simple block of colour. They also pay more focused and intense attention to new stimuli, so a second sheet, drawn a little differently, is worth the five seconds it costs you.

🧺 You need

  • paper or card
  • dark pen

🛡️ Keep the sheet in your hand rather than propping it up — paper and card slide, and a baby on their back cannot push one off their face. The pen goes away with the drawings, and nothing stays in the cot when you step away.

Sources: ZeroToThree — Sensory Experience and Development in Babies · ZeroToThree — Sensory Experience and Development in Babies

🩺 Vuila shares play ideas, not medical advice — for questions about your child's development, talk to your pediatrician.

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The face you draw

Two dots, a line, one curve

Draw the simplest face you can manage — two dots for eyes, a line for a nose, one curve for a mouth, as big as the page allows. It doesn't have to be a good drawing; it has to be big and simple.