ABSTRACT
Children’s mark-making, drawing, painting and two-and three-dimensional representations are sometimes considered as aspects of ‘creative development’ in, for example, the English Early Years Foundation Stage (DfES 2007). The focus in this chapter is on the ways in which children use visual representation both as a tool for making sense and meaning, and as a way of communicating. Young children’s creativity is a very important part of this, but it is also a part of every other aspect of their lives, not confined to ‘the arts’. In keeping with this, creativity and creative thinking is looked at in more detail in Chapter 11.
