The Ruling on Drawing Trees and Animals for Children
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Question:
He says: My wife works as a teacher in a kindergarten. When she tells the children a certain story, and to clarify this story and make it easier for them to understand, she draws for them simple pictures of living beings and other things like trees. However, these pictures are not precise in their features; rather, they are made with simple lines. What is the ruling on this? May Allah reward you.
Answer:
There is no harm in drawing trees and stones for them. As for animals, no, do not draw animals for them except without a head. If it is without a head, there is no harm. But drawing children or animals with a head, no. However, trees and stones, there is no harm.
He says: My wife works as a teacher in a kindergarten. When she tells the children a certain story, and to clarify this story and make it easier for them to understand, she draws for them simple pictures of living beings and other things like trees. However, these pictures are not precise in their features; rather, they are made with simple lines. What is the ruling on this? May Allah reward you.
Answer:
There is no harm in drawing trees and stones for them. As for animals, no, do not draw animals for them except without a head. If it is without a head, there is no harm. But drawing children or animals with a head, no. However, trees and stones, there is no harm.
Source
لقاءات لابن باز - لقاء ابن باز - ٩ — archive.org (35:13)
The Arabic text is a machine transcription of the audio recording.