Nature vs. Supra-Nature: How Montessori Children Conceptualize the Real and Imaginary Through Visual Art - DataSet

This dataset contains structured coding data from 198 original children's paintings produced during Drone & Art Day, a special event held at Blue Blocks Montessori School (Hyderabad, Telangana, India) in early 2026. The event was organized around the theme "Nature vs. Supra-Nature: How Montessori Children Conceptualize the Real and Imaginary Through Visual Art." Each painting (P001–P198) by one of 93 unique students aged 6–15 was independently coded by two raters across 30 variables, covering: student identity (anonymized ID, age, gender), a primary binary classification (Nature vs. Supra-Nature), the presence of 13 specific thematic visual elements across Nature and Supra-Nature sub-categories, dominant color palette, and inter-rater reliability scores. The two raters reached perfect agreement across all 198 paintings (Cohen's Kappa = 1.0). Of the 198 paintings, 157 (79.3%) were classified as Nature and 41 (20.7%) as Supra-Nature. Qualitative researcher notes accompany each entry. The workbook also includes a Summary Statistics sheet, a Legend & Instructions sheet, and a Correction Log documenting unresolved flags for in-person verification. The dataset supports research into children's artistic imagination, developmental differences in symbolic and representational thinking, and the intersection of technology (drones) with creative expression in a Montessori educational context.