This is How Children Around the World are Drawing the Coronavirus
They have different ages, live in different cities and countries, but they are all very aware of what’s happening around the world with the new coronavirus. From Argentina to Germany, or from Mexico to Paraguay, this is how children in different places are drawing the coronavirus.
In some cases, they drew it as homeschooling homework; in other cases, they just drew it because kids felt the need to do it; and in other cases, they did it because someone asked them to express themselves.
Drawings include strokes in one color to very detailed battles between the novel coronavirus and nurse-robots.
Is there a kid in your family drawing the novel coronavirus? Pay attention to what they draw. It could be a sign of how they are coping with the situation.
Around the world, many children have lost their grandparents or other relatives, or they can feel extremely isolated or confused, while their parents struggle with the virus, their jobs, and other complex circumstances like homeschooling.
Andrea, a 5 year old girl from Mexico, drew an intense red COVID-19. “This coronavirus is really naughty,” she said to her mother.
Gonzalo, an 8 year old boy from Argentina, decided to draw a battle between Transformer-robots-nurses and different versions of the COVID-19. He put red crosses on the robots to identify them as nurses or doctors.
Also from Argentina, other children are drawing how the virus threatens their homes. Ignacio, an 8 year old kid, drew the door of his house completely locked with bars, as he quarantines along with his mom in the province of Buenos Aires.
Girls, like this 8 year old from Buenos Aires, have also used markers and paper to draw the novel virus as part of her homeschooling homework. She picked a black marker and wrote: “Coronavirus — year 2020.”
In Paraguay, 6 year old Alessandro picked very bright color pencils to draw the novel coronavirus. Quarantined in his mother’s house, Alessandro video-calls his dad everyday and tells him: “I love you dad, I miss you,” his father says.
Fátima is also quarantined. She’s 10 years old and did two versions of COVID-19 in Bogota, Colombia. One drawing with a face and arms, and the other with several colors.
Juan Andrés is also 8 year old, and he also lives in Bogota, Colombia. He drew a very mad coronavirus in yellow and red.
In Puerto Rico, where 51 cases have been confirmed, Ian has also drawn his own version of coronavirus. He is 9 year old, and used green tone pencils to sketch very detailed four COVID-19s with dangerous thorns.
On the other side of the Atlantic Ocean, María Belén (7) is quarantined and homeschooling in Germany, a country that has as of today more than 35,000 confirmed cases. Every day, she goes over lessons and reads books. After she finishes her homework it’s time to play and draw. Her “works of art” includes a message: “Do not leave home”. As part of a multicultural family, she wrote the message in Spanish and Deutsch “so everybody can understand,” she says.
“The coronavirus (in her sketch) is angry because people are staying home and it can’t make them sick,” explains María Belén from Berlin on a video-call.
As in most countries around the world, Britain’s schools were ordered to close. The only similar move was when schools in London shut as pupils were evacuated at the start of World War Two.
Alice Aske, from Somerset, 128 miles from London, created a Facebook group called Chase The Rainbow, encouraging families to tape hand-painted drawings of rainbows in their windows, as a way to spread a positive message.
The response was massive. In just 24 hours, her group reached 65,000 members, and kids all over UK started painting them and put them in their windows. Hundreds of schools encouraged pupils to put up paintings to “spread hope” after a trend started online, according to BBC.
Even though, Alice Aske’s idea was encouraging and helped hundreds of kids to do something positive, she was forced to close the Facebook group due to the hate massages she got.
But the movement is still alive, as are alive the drawings of kids. #chasetherainbowofficial is the hashtag you can use to find or publish sketches, paintings, pictures and other works of art.
More drawings about coronavirus
Pics of children and their works of art are still being sent to the author, who’s publishing them at the bottom of this story.
Habib, 6 year old. Colombia.
Samara, 3 year old. Colombia.
Laura Sofia, 6 year old. Colombia.
Emilia, 5 year old. Colombia
