January last year, I started working in the local nursery. I’m a teaching assistant in the 2-3 years old room. For most children, this is the first experience to come to the nursery, or even to the outside world without their families. They were born during the pandemic, so many of them couldn’t go to playgroups.

I didn’t draw any teachers in this picture, but the room I work for usually has 4-5 teachers.

Some toddlers can draw like the girl on the left, but sometimes they find drawing on hands is more interesting! Some children enjoy knock down the pencil stands even more than drawing..

Some children try to draw on their faces. Normally the teachers stop this before they do, but some children hide under the table because they know they would be told off. Other children find this under the table and try to copy them as this looks fun!

Some children still doesn’t understand the concept that we should draw on the paper. Sometimes their drawing continues to the floor. Of course teachers will stop this as soon as they find it, but I found this interesting to see how children learn their outside world — they have to learn so many rules!

The boy happily drawing on the easel.. but very soon another child might try to join and start drawing on his picture. Sharing is very difficult thing to learn for many children especially this age, so probably this boy might be upset and angry, or he might not mind sharing the paper with another child. You never know :)