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Shapes of scribbles can start to form letters such as T and V 

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Shapes of scribbles can start to form letters such as T and V 

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categorized by smaller, more organized lines and forms that are produced as children develop more muscle control 

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categorized by smaller, more organized lines and forms that are produced as children develop more muscle control 

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https://artisticguide.weebly.com/scribbling-stage.html

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Babies spend many months absorbing their surroundings. As they take in the world around them, art becomes one of their first forms of communicating with the complex world around them. Toddlers first use tools without an awareness that their actions produce marks. After continued exposure to materials, children produce bang dots, initial marks generated by hitting some tool against a surface. Once young children make a cognitive connection ("Ah ha!") between symbol and tool, they move into the scribbling stage (Lowenfeld.)

Drawings created in the first years of life are visibly tangible expressions of pleasure. Pre=representational (Burton) drawings begin as a result of spontaneous, large muscle-motor movements and are kinesthetics, manipulative and expressive behaviors.

The first drawings made by a child are full of floating marks. The visual vocabulary youngsters produce is practically a universal code of marks termed:

1. mandalas (circular shapes);
2. combines (combinations of marks);
3. aggregates (roving continuous lines with little overlap)
4. radials (lines that radiate outward from a center); and
5. suns (enclosed circles with radiating lines.)

Lowenfeld divides scribbling into three sub-stages: disordered and random scribbling, controlled scribbling, and planned scribbling. Unintentional marks become geometric shapes. By the end of this stage, children can make dots, straight lines, and closed forms. As learners begin to manipulate tools, gain confidence and develop their motor skills, these "accidental" marks become recognizable visual symbols and are combined to create complex formations.

Children are unaware of their first marks. For this drawing, Anna was given crayons and paper by an adult. She held the tools with her fist and made a few marks without a complete or true understanding that she was producing marks.

Her unknown power is suggested by the lightness and sparsity of the marks. A few changes in color can be seen, but those choices are the result of adult suggestions.

Once children realize that the action of putting tool to surface creates a mark, they can begin making uncontrolled marks. This moment is often characterized by the appearance of the bang dot, the first connection children make between mark and mark-maker.

Characteristics to look for:

Controlled scribbling is categorized by smaller, more organized lines and forms that are produced as children develop more muscle control. These new lines and forms are repeated over and over by children in a conscious effort to control and practice the range of marks they can produce. The development of this visual vocabulary is crucial to a child's understanding of the world. Through this personal journey, children learn that marks have meaning.

Drawings made as planned scribbles are carefully thought out.

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Babies spend many months absorbing their surroundings. As they take in the world around them, art becomes one of their first forms of communicating with the complex world around them. Toddlers first use tools without an awareness that their actions produce marks.

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The main thing you can do with scribbling is encourage it and create plenty of opportunities. 

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The main thing you can do with scribbling is encourage it and create plenty of opportunities. 

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controlled scribbling consists of a lot of unintentional shape making and line work

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Improved fine motor skills

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they have the ability to recognize symbols

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Express creativity

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make sure to provide different tools like paints markers, crayons. 

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make sure to provide different tools like paints markers, crayons. 

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the lines and forms (marks) they scribble are smaller and more organized

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use of different colours to make art more visible

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They would likely to practice one types of lines over and over. 

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They would likely to practice one types of lines over and over. 

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Improved hand-eye coordination

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their lines stay within the 'drawing area'

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Children assign meanings and invent/add stories to their work.