Surround yourself with your crayons and drawing pad and begin to draw with them. Be a child and play with the colors and shapes. Scribble on the paper, if you dare. Break your crayons in two if you like and remove the paper around them. Use these crayons on their side to make wide strokes across the pad, or use only the points. Make many marks on the paper, varying the lengths and widths. Consider the whole paper. Don't forget the edges and corners of the pad. Let the crayons go off the pad if you feel like it. Overlap your colors.
Now draw your child.
Draw the picture that she made for you.
Draw her world as she has shown it to you and capture her message — if you can.
— Nancy Azara in Spirit Taking Form