Early years practitioners will be better able to support children's learning if they are aware of how children's art develops. Many people have studied the development stages of children's art and come to a general consensus about them, with slight deviances and variations.
Robert Clements in Understanding Progression in Primary Art: The Censape Tapes, categorises this development in five stages:
1 From scribble to symbol
2 Storytelling
3 Using symbols
4 Memory, imagination and observation
5 From symbol to description.
Clements describes early mark-making as scribbles which are simply maps of movement made by the hand that is holding the crayon, brush or pencil.
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