Stella Can Draw!

Stella drew a closed circle yesterday all by herself. Mama was reading her Parenting magazine and there was an article about the development of artistic skills in children broken down by age. It said that by the time a kid turns 3, most are able to draw closed circles. So this article made Mama test Stella's artistic skills. Mama showed her how to draw a circle and then Stella drew a few all by herself. Mama then drew different types of smiley/sad/angry faces and asked Stella to draw in the eyes and mouth on circles Mama drew for her and she did. In the pic below, the smiley faces in brown are the ones Stella drew. She told me that the brown face in the top left is happy and the brown face on the very bottom left is sad.

This is a huge leap from the scribbles and straight lines she has been drawing up until now. Needless to say, we are very proud of her.