But drawing is much more than a fun activity. It has wide-ranging benefits for children’s development.

Children’s drawings are often visually striking, and have long fascinated psychologists, who have seen in them clues to personality, emotions, and mental development. [2] ...

To examine the evolutional origin of representational drawing, two experiments directly compared the drawing behavior of human children and chimpanzees. The first experiment observed free drawing ...

Rather, when given guided intellectual freedom, children integrate writing, drawing, and pictures in sophisticated and creative ways. The author traces children's text development to show how ...

A meta-analysis by lead author David Miller and his colleagues appears in the journal Child Development, including 78 studies and over 20,000 children in the United States. Compared to less than 1 ...

News Strongsville mother creates ‘Literature Chalk Walk’ to get children to read, draw, stay occupied during coronavirus stay-at-home order Updated: Mar. 24, 2020, 4:18 p.m.