Adaptation of the Early Childhood Voices Drawing Protocol for collecting children's experiences of play

Background: Children’s creative works, like drawing, are increasingly used as an innovative method for researchers, practitioners and policymakers to understand children’s experiences of the world. The Early Childhood Voices Drawing Protocol was developed as a virtual data elicitation tool to collect and analyse children’s drawings of themselves talking. The Children Draw Talking Global Online Gallery (https://earlychildhoodresearch.csu.domains/early-childhood-voices-conference-2022/children-draw-talking-gallery-1-the-world/) provided valuable insights into children’s perspectives about talking as well as their knowledge of concepts related to the United Nations Sustainability Development Goals. To date, the ECVDP has been successfully used to elicit and analyse children’s drawings of talking; however, the versatility of the protocol to other activities is unknown. For example, play is an important daily activity for children’s learning and social connection in the world. Aim: To adapt the ECVDP so that it may be used to validly analyse children’s experiences of activities of daily living.