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Wow, my 14 month old LOVES LOVES LOVES coloring. She will even pretend color with a marker with a lid on it. We can even tell her to only color on the paper and for the most part she knows to color on the paper and not the table. I would say she started with crayons around 11 months or so? Coloring was a favorite activity, so I had coloring books at her first birthday party that kept all the kids entertained.

Less than a year as they do that at daycare. It doesn't hold her interest for very long at home, though. Maybe she just likes doing it with her friends.

LO is 18 months and he sucks at coloring. He's in daycare and comes home with scribbles all the time, but if we just hand him crayons and paper, he has little to no interest in scribbling, though he'll play with the crayons.

we couldn't give charlie crayons until 18 months because he would put them in his mouth. now drawing is one of his favorite things to do! he loves markers much better than crayons.

@artbee: Yes she is in daycare but they don't often get crayons. They do an "art" project every day but its often a hand print or finger paints or gluing paper.

My LO started around 14 months and was immediately drawn to coloring with crayons. I'm a SAHM and he had been observing me write on paper for quite some time. He would occasionally take a pen and start scribbling with the cap on.

At 15 months, DD was more interested in taking the crayons out of the box and putting them back in than she was actually coloring with them.

Right now, at 28 months, DD is super into coloring and will happily color for 1/2 hour at a time, but it took a long time to get to this point.