The Power of Children’s Scribbles: What Rhoda Kellogg Taught Us About Art and Development

At PLAYDAY, we believe that every child is naturally creative. Long before children can write words or explain their ideas, they express themselves through marks, lines, and shapes. What may look like “scribbling” to adults is actually something much deeper — a universal language of childhood.This idea comes largely from the groundbreaking work of Rhoda Kellogg, a pioneering researcher who spent decades studying how young children draw.Who Was Rhoda Kellogg?Rhoda Kellogg was an educator and rese