Lines are usually continuous rather than dots or small differentiated repeated patterns., since to do the latter, the child would have to take his hand off the page. Child begins to name his scribble indicating the beginning of the visual symbolizing process. Still no great resemblance, however to objects from reality. Mental activity experiences transformation from a purely kinesthetic experience in terms of motions to one of imaginative conceptualization in terms of pictures, that is secondary objects which represent the primary object, a process we call symbolic representation . Adults should not try to find visual reality in the child's pictures or attempt to read into the scribbles their own interpretations.
Child decides when the drawing is complete.
White or light colored. Do not attempt to economize by giving the child old newspapers, for it is essential that he be able to see contrast with his scribbles hence, the light paper and dark drawing tool. They should be dark colored or black and big enough for him to handle easily. Construction paper, magazine cutouts, found objects, fabrics. Representational changes as they come about should be as the child changes his thinking, feelings and perceptions of objects, not because an adult told him how to draw it.