A three-year-old child is able to draw individual circular forms, complemented by smaller circles, vertical lines and horizontal lines. At the age of three is when they first start to draw simple figures (Podobnik and Selan, 2022). When they are aged between three and four years, most children are able to draw a cephalopod, i.e. a circular form combining a head and a body, with legs growing out of it in form of two (mostly diagonal) lines. In this period, children like to use kneadable material and form different lumps, which they gradually start to put together (Podobnik and Selan, 2022). Objects created in this period are moderately unidentifiable, however, children still often give them names. They manipulate, knead and roll the kneadable material and form different circular forms and lumps. In doing so, they increasingly use both hands, which makes it easier to make increasingly concrete objects with concrete attributes. Later on, children start to correlate the forms drawn with objects or persons that are familiar to them from their environment or experience. They start to separate human and animal figures, and their composition is becoming increasingly complex, meaning that they separate the head from the body, where other limbs grow from (Podobnik and Selan, 2022). According to Tacol and Šupšakova (2018), children, when using sculpting materials, start to create forms in an upright position, but they remain somewhat uncertain. A five-year-old child is still able to form lumps and create individual forms from them (animals, persons, different objects), placing them on the table or vertically. They first create an animal or a person's body, later adding their head, legs and arms. At the age of five, they start to separate linear depiction on a plane from three-dimensional form depictions (Tacol and Šupšakova, 2018). The figures they create are becoming more realistic, but they contain less visible details than in their drawings. Children add or draw details in a basic form that is already created. When creating an animal or human figure from sculpting materials, differences between them are even more visible than in drawings (Tacol in Šupšakova, 2018).
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