Our society places a lot of emphasis on the skill of drawing. It is generally felt that representing ideas, events and objects by way of sketches and diagrams contributes to the aim of problem solving. Drawing skills are much more then just pencil and paper activities.

Pencil control relies on precise motor coordination, for which motor planning is essential. Students  have to be able to use vertical, horizontal and slanted lines, curves, zigzags, circles and combination of lines and shapes to create a picture.

Drawing enriches students' sensory experiences, develops imagination and creativity, develops aesthetic awareness and skills in observing and recording visual aspects of the natural and man made environment.

Art and Design contributes to the world around us, enhancing student's experiences by encouraging students to observe and interpret their environment, record and represent their learning visually.

Drawing is a nonverbal expression, an experimentation, a kind of communication, an introduction to the symbolic world, the beginning stage to geometry, maths and science.

Drawing is an important part of literary development. As children draw together, they often tell stories and readily "read" their drawings to each other. Young children consider their drawings to be actual writing. Children can look at their drawings and clearly retell a story and convey  quite often  a sophisticated meaning.

Children like different kinds of paper, various sizes, shapes and colours. The photocopyable sheets offer ample opportunities for children to draw, create and experiment in both, drawing and emergent literacy.

The activities may be printed on different kinds of paper to give children more choices. They may be used on clipboards to enable children to draw anywhere they choose. They can be enlarged and used on easels to serve as a background idea for painting.