Introduction. The article describes the methods of characterization and possible ways of interpreting children’s artworks that present the images of their family. The author pointed to various types of children’s imagery depending on personal experiences and acquaintances. The stages of development of aesthetic expression and ways of analyzing children’s drawings, which begins with defining the space of the compositional arrangement, are described. The author treats a child’s drawing as a means of expressing their experiences and as a form of coding a symbolic transformation of experience. Aim. The aim of the article is to discuss a drawing presenting a child’s family as one of the basic tools for studying the development of a child and their family as an educational environment. The author shows a family drawing as children’s reflections of their observations, thoughts, and feelings about themselves and their relationship with individual family members, and as a tool for analyzing the visual signs created by children and their meaning. Materials and method. The article is based on the literature on the subject and the author’s own pedagogical and artistic experience. It was supplemented with examples of analysis of children’s drawings depicting families, which were taken from the author’s collection, acquired as part of his research. The author analyzes the elements of drawings qualitatively to illustrate a child’s way of perceiving the family environment. Conclusion. The text may be a source of inspiration for a multifaceted analysis of a child’s drawings as a material for diagnosing not only how they perceive and feel about family relationships, but also their levels of artistic development and potential talents in this area.