A month on from first introducing pencils, crayons & markers to my little girl, I’ve realized I’ve created a colouring monster! Last night I first noticed that she hasn’t played with any of her toys for the last four days… just happily sits and scribbles. Funnily enough, when her crayola markers aren’t out she gathers to herself all the graphite pencils, leaving the colourful ones scattered about. It’s been intriguing watching a little one learn how to use the pencils… progressing from side to side scribbling, to big round circles around them, to carefully drawing little circles imitating mummy drawing on the paper (bottom).