Answered by Shaykh Faraz Rabbani
Is it at all permissible to have small school children (first graders) draw pictures of animate objects for learning purposes (this is hard to avoid since many school curricula include this
Walaikum assalam wa rahmatullah,
Yes, this would be permitted, because such drawings are rarely detailed enough to constitute prohibited picture-making, as explained in the answer below.
Wassalam,
Faraz Rabbani