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Artisitic Stages Development

Posted on | October 6, 2009 | 2 Comments

Scribble stage:

  • Begin at about one and one half to two years of age
  • Their first marks is group of aimless lines
  • May be pleased with this scribbling and get real enjoyment from it
  • Does not have control over hand movements
  • Does not realized that she is producing these scribbles
  • At some point, children will find connection between their motions and the marks on the page
  • Gain control over the scribbling motion
  • Go in direction desired
  • Great deal of enthusiasm
  • Can now scribble in lines, zigzags, or circles

Symbolic/Basic forms stage:

  • Age range 3-4 years old
  • Basic forms like rectangles, squares, and circles develop from scribbles as the child finds and recognizes simple shapes in the scribbles
  • Finds muscle control and hand-eye coordination to repeat the shape
  • Drawings are more organized
  • Make basic forms by controlling the lines
  • Control scribbles, making loops, circular shapes, and lines that are distinguishable and can be repeated at will
  • Ask to have their names out in their works so it can be taken home or displayed in the room
  • Early basic forms stage is when children can draw oval or circle, curved line or arc made with the same swinging movement of an arm used in the early scribble stage
  • Later basic forms stage is when children can draw rectangles and squares. They can purposefully draw separate lines of any length desired

Representative/Pictorial stage:

  • 4 years old and most 5 years old are mostly at this level
  • Pictures or first drawing are different from scribbling in that they are not made for pure motor enjoyment
  • The basic forms perfected in the preceeding stage suggest images to the child that stands for ideas in the children’s own mind
  • Symbol is the visual representation of something important to the child, it maybe human figure, animal, tree, or similar figure
  • Realized the relationship between the objects drawn and the outside world that drawing and painting can be used to record ideas and express feelings
  • Human form is often the child’s first symbol
  • Scribbling something of importance to the child
  • Other common symbols include trees, houses, flowers, and animals
  • In early pictorial stage, a child works on making and perfecting one or many symbols, covering sheets of paper with many examples of the same subject, may be a collection of unrelated figures and objects, sampling of child’s many tries at making different symbols, searching for new ideas, symbols change constantly
  • In later pictorial stage, a child draws symbols easily and more exactly, producing a series of many symbols, draw one at a time with few or no mother marks on the page, and draw letters of their name.
  • By the time they are 5 and half to 6 years olf, children generally are ready to make a pictures of many things in their experience or imagination
  • Each child has special way of drawing which is refer as schema. It can be usually in drawings of 6 years old. The child express their own personalities with schema.
Category: Art & Craft for Young Children

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2 Responses to “Artisitic Stages Development”

  1. Mark
    November 21st, 2009 @ 8:11 pm

    I find it interesting that mark making is one of the earlier signs of learning how to draw/write.

    For instance if a child tips some water over during mealtimes and uses her finger to make patterns, she’s actually doing mark making. Adults will normally scold children for doing that though. :)

    Regards
    Mark
    http://earlychildcare.wordpress.com/

  2. admin
    November 22nd, 2009 @ 11:21 pm

    oh ya… that’s so true ;p What to do hahaha…

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