First, a child must pick what picture they want to color or what object they will draw. This is a very important step because it involves the child making decisions, a skill they will need everyday. Once this is determined

Finally, the last choices consist of imagination and creation of color. The child should be allowed to pick any color they feel fits the object to be colored. Color is very important to children because it expresses what they feel an object should be, which may not be the color that it appears usually. I used to color things concretely, whatever color I had seen them as in life I colored them to match. I was very serious about staying in lines also. Lines mean different things to kids, some children may see them as limitations, while others may see them as a simple line that can be broken with a stroke of color running through it. Whatever way a child chooses to color, there is no wrong way.

, they must choose objects to draw or a picture to color. For me, it always depended on a mood or my interests. I went through a stage of only drawing people, and then animals, which then led to putting people and animals in houses.

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, coloring book, picture color, people animals, coloring children,
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