A child's drawing is created spontaneously, self-initiatively, and it is very simple in terms of its expressiveness, which often leads to the belief that, as a matter of fact, it has no special meaning. However, that is far from being the case. A drawing, especially the one that a child creates when confronted with a particular situation, tells us much more than we are often willing to admit. Every drawing created by a child is different, just as a child who makes the drawing is unique and different from other children. Both lines and shapes are important in this respect, and in a certain period, the choice of colour also plays an important role. My bachelor’s thesis is focused mainly on pre-schoolers’ emotion expression and besides, it also studies the ways emotions are expressed in their drawings. All this is best explained and illustrated by means of art therapy. My bachelor’s thesis aims to determine the impact that the child’s emotions, which were triggered by means of two different types of stories (happy and sad), have on the child’s drawing. The thesis addresses the question whether a particular emotion experienced by a child is also portrayed with specific colours, and it examines whether the child’s emotions affect the choice of colours. The results obtained by the research were qualitatively processed and analysed by means of content analysis. The analysis showed that children, regardless of their age, choose those colours and draw those fictional characters that they find most appealing. At the same time, it is important that when analysing children’s drawings, we are able to understand the context in which they were created, determine the impulse that triggered the response through drawing, and establish other messages that a child wants to communicate (verbally and non-verbally).
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