Comments on: When Interpreting Preschool Art, Don’t Be a Pervert

By: Funny Little Kids

Funny Little Kids — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 23:24:00 +0000

That is very funny–shame on us adults for thinking things when they haven’t been confirmed!

I would for you to add this post on our website http://www.funnylittlekids.com if you like.

It is all about the funny little things kids say and do!

Have a good day!

By: Preschool Learning

Preschool Learning — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 23:20:30 +0000

LOL! I have to say I laughed at that artwork as well.

I think as adults we tend to over think things and look at the worst case senarios–kids do not do that because they really don’t have any bad intentions.

Kids are so funny sometimes even when they aren’t trying to be!

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Wed, 30 Sep 2009 04:02:42 +0000

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By: Plano Mom

Plano Mom — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 18:07:21 +0000

This was hilarious. And for Muirgen, you save all the artwork in a basket or box, and at the end of the school year you go through it and let them keep 5 works of art they can’t part with.

Kind of makes my son’s gory monsters art seem tame…

By: kristin

kristin — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 14:59:06 +0000

that first pic is HILARIOUS!

By: mpotter

mpotter — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 13:52:45 +0000

i wish i had a copy of the journal entry one of my first grade students wrote. i’d have to scan it in to give you the full effect.
imagine, though, how a 1st grader may form the letter b… it can look like a 6. and how she could form a (backwards) p which can look like a 9.

so what she wrote was: (over the weekend) I went with Dad to 69 and got penus.
what she meant was: I went with Dad to BP and got some peanuts. (complete with less than stellar, perverted picture of a peanut).

oh, man!
sometimes teaching first grade made you laugh till you cried.

By: Meryl

Meryl — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 13:14:34 +0000

What a hoot – I’m as like-minded as you. I tried unsuccessfully to think what it could be, but you were right on target of my first thought. M

By: Heather

Heather — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 11:18:00 +0000

Yes, I’ve been called in to the principal’s office too and told my son drew a picture with the words “kill” on it, dots like bullets and blood on it. When he was actually asked, he explained the “bullets” were plankton, the “blood” was krill, misspelled “kill” by a then first grader. Child art interpretation is a dangerous business.

By: mom, again

mom, again — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 06:37:41 +0000

My uncle had to draw a picture of his family in school. He was the youngest of 5, his two oldest sisters were married with kids. He drew quite elaboratley detailed pix of his parents, sibs, their spouses, his nephews and neice. But, his drawing of himself was a stick figure. Alarms went off with the teachers, my grandmother was called in for a conference. Whatever could be the matter with the poor boy’s psychic sense of self. Or something like that.

My grandmother asked him why he drew himself so simply? He answered, “I’d been drawing a long time, I was tired.”

Conference cancelled.

By: MommyTime

MommyTime — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 01:42:05 +0000

My sister came home from school when she was about 8 with a story she’d written about “Bitch, the Sailor.” She wanted to her sailor to be different, she explained to our mother, so she couldn’t name him Butch like all the other sailors. So she just changed Butch a little bit, to make it different but still a sailor name. We still laugh till we cry over that story. And my sister is now 36. Do be sure to keep this picture in the file of “art worth saving” so that you and your daughter can have a great laugh over it later.