ABSTRACT
Creativity is a valued aspect of 'product success' and the research discussed therefore involved making judgements about the novelty of each child's design ideas. Once children are using tools to support and develop their design thinking, they have then reached an important milestone. Older pupils with little experience of design drawing will learn to do so relatively quickly once the role of drawing for designing as 'ideas on a journey' is explained to them, and this is what T.R. Kelly and E. Sung discovered working with 8–9-year-olds in New York State. In response to the Easter Egg Holder task, one of the girls in the Comparison Class designed a shoulder bag with the egg sitting in a hole in the top. The aim of using drawing for designing is to enable children to develop their creative ideas about something that is to be made.
