My son loves crayons, (ok so I still have to remind him not to put them in his mouth, but we are working on it) he enjoys marking up the paper, sometimes scribbling sometimes hammering away at the paper with his crayon.
I have to do some serious crayon managment with him if there is going to be any hope of crayon meeting paper. Mostly it's a game of limiting the number of crayons in his possession. He will, if given the opportunity, attempt to hold two or more crayons in each hand. Which wouldn't be a problem if he didn't get so upset about what color actually ended up appearing on the paper. All crayons being at random heights in his hand only one will reach the paper and that is rarely if ever the one he intended.
The yellow crayon clearly frustrates him. It is the lightest color in our limited box of over-sized crayons, and when he tries to scribble with it the coloring game loses some of it's fun. He will then mash the yellow crayon into the paper until victory (a dark enough mark to easily notice) is achieved. This little struggle is occasionally completed with the announcement "I did it!" (one of the few complete sentences he says with any regularity).
But much like with all things the key is practice. He does noticeably better with the task of coloring with each day that coloring with crayons comes up. Is he ready to color unsupervised? Let's not be silly. He's one and a half he's not old enough to do anything unsupervised.
I would also like to mention that coloring time is an excellent time to work on color recognition, "Which crayon do you want?" and more leading questions like "do you want the green one?" will help your child get the idea. And once they've mastered the colors of the crayon box you can start with letters, numbers, and basic shapes. The possibilities that open up with crayon and paper will rock your baby's world. (In the best possible way.)
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