When Kids’ Drawings Terrified the Adults — But Were Completely Innocent

The Facebook page “Family Days. Tried & Tested,” usually devoted to practical advice for parents, had the excellent idea of asking its 250,000 followers to share the most bizarre, disturbing, or amusing drawings made by their children.The topic was incredibly successful. In just a few days, thousands of parents posted their children's funniest drawings. Here is a small selection of these creations with captions left by the parents who posted them.

1. “The Monster Hanging From the Ceiling

It started with a note from the teacher:

“Please talk to your son about what he drew today.”

A worried mom found this picture in his bag — a huge creature dangling from a line, claws, stripes, and what looked like… teeth.2. “The Naked Lady in the Shower”

When she asked him what it was, he proudly replied:

“It’s Daddy! He’s fixing the curtain rod!”

Apparently, Dad had been standing on a chair that morning, one leg up, trying to hang the new drapes — and the kid saw it as a heroic moment worth immortalizing.
He just forgot to draw the ladder.

So what looked like a horror movie monster was actually a very tired parent doing DIY.

 2. “The Naked Lady in the Shower”

When a six-year-old brought home this sketch, the mother nearly dropped her coffee.
The figure had… details. Two circles on the chest. A line down below.

She gasped — “Sweetheart, who’s that supposed to be?”

“You, Mommy! You were washing your hair this morning!”

Turns out, he had drawn her getting ready for work — with a towel wrapped on her head and her arm raised to hold the shampoo bottle.

The “details” were just her bathing suit lines.
And the mysterious “extra” shape below? The shower drain.

Moral of the story: Children don’t draw what’s inappropriate.
They draw what’s real — we’re the ones adding meaning that isn’t there.

3. “The Flying Sausages”

A teacher once found this in a pile of art class papers and froze.
Two long, rounded shapes. Kids riding on top.
She called another teacher over. They both stared in silence.

Then she asked the artist — a cheerful five-year-old boy — “What are these?”

“Those are Daddy’s tractors! We’re plowing the field!”

He’d drawn his family’s farm vehicles, complete with wheels (which, okay, looked suspiciously like toes).
And the “drivers” on top were him and his cousin pretending to race.

The teacher laughed so hard she had to leave the room.
That drawing now lives on the school’s “Wall of Innocence.”

4. “My Favorite Thing to Do at Home Is… Cook”

This one nearly gave a mother a heart attack at the open-house art fair.
A rainbow background. A giant brown object.
Text painted carefully across the page:

“My favorite thing to do at home is… COOK.”

 

But the “spoon” didn’t exactly look like a spoon.

The mom blushed crimson.
Other parents glanced.
Someone whispered, “Oh dear God.”

The teacher intervened, smiling kindly:

“She meant a wooden spoon. She just didn’t have time to add the handle.”