Appreciation of the arts and
enjoyment of sensory experiences
| Stage 1 | Scribbling | Children use crayons, markers and pint in zigzag fashion and circular motion. Later, the scribles become more controlled. Their work is exploratory. Color is unrealistic. The child begins to draw symbols like circles, crosses and lines. | (3 and 4 years old) |
| Stage 2 | Preschematic Stages | At four, a child begines to show definite forms in representing a person, making a circle for the head and two vertical lines for legs. Sometimes there is a mouth, arms, hands, feet or shoes. Objects are drawn at random and they are not in sequence or proportion. At this stage, form is more important than color. As children progress through this stage size becomes more proportional, and they gain more brush control as their painting begine to look more like illustations. By age seven a child has established a mental picture of an object that is repeated with each painted repetition of the object. For example, each time the child paints a house it will look very much like all the other houses he/she painted. | (4 to 7 years old) |
| Stage 3 | Schematic | At this stages, sky lines (usually blue) and base lines (usually green) appear on the top and bottom of drawings. Items drawn between these lines usually are proportional, and they are on the base line as appropriate. | (6 to 9 years old) |
Source : Lowenfeld, V. (1954) Your Child and His Art. New York : MacMillan