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Existing studies on children\u2019s experiences of crises often rely on adult perspectives or are adult-led; a more child-centric approach could be to analyze children\u2019s drawings. The aim of this study was to explore Swedish 7- to 11-year-old children\u2019s experiences and knowledge of the COVID-19 pandemic, as expressed in their drawings. Drawings from\n                    <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">N<\/jats:italic>\n                    = 454 children with accompanying texts, from various Swedish municipalities with different socio-economic profiles, were analyzed using a combination of semiotic visual analysis and content analysis. Three main themes emerged: (a)\n                    <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">Fun, friends, and freedom are cancelled<\/jats:italic>\n                    which pointed to societal changes as a result of the pandemic that impacted the children\u2019s own lives, causing high levels of frustration; children saw contrasts between what had been, what is, and what is to come; (b)\n                    <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">The world is all upside down<\/jats:italic>\n                    , in which the children highlighted their understanding of the virus, how it has changed and impacted the world, as well as existential reflections of their lives and surrounding environment; and (c)\n                    <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">The Virus: evil, scary, and dangerous, but masks and sanitizer can help<\/jats:italic>\n                    showed the children\u2019s understanding of the pandemic as a global event and showed high level of health literacy related to COVID-19. 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