Abstract
Abstract Toddlers and preschoolers drawing with primary and standard markers, pencils, and crayons were observed to determine the influence of implement diameter on children's drawing products, performances, and preferences. The relationship of drawing and early home manipulative experience was investigated as well. Twenty children were observed completing spontaneous drawings and geometric form copying and draw a person tasks. Levels of symbolic representation in free drawings, geometric forms and person drawings, and grips produced with primary and standard instruments were highly similar. Children's more frequent manipulative experiences at home, as reported by parents, including coloring/drawing, painting, cutting with scissors, pasting, and buttoning were related to children's more mature drawing products. Results confirm and extend findings of previous studies indicating that even very young children are able users of standard drawing instruments.
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