Is your 18 month old coloring?

I'd say, 5 minutes or less is coloring and then it's only eating the crayons. I take them away once he starts eating them, so I'm hoping he will catch on eventually that we don't eat them 😅

He colors but then he smashes the crayons and tries to eat the bits that fall on the page 😭😂 I’d say just give it time, and keep trying to show your LO how to do it! 🤍

Same. I try to teach him to color on his color book but he just want to bite and eat his color pencil

Same, mine wants to eat the book and crayons

Mine colors then try’s to eat crayons and markers😂 she likes painting tho, Mostly just to paint all over her legs and arms. Mine also likes chalk, that’s the one thing she doesn’t try to taste

We do the miracle ink or the erasable tablet that is rainbow colored. She will use markers at the gym daycare 🙃 but we don’t allow those at home.

When we first started she would just try to eat them but after a few times she now only colors with them

My daughter LOVES crayons, but my husband and I are both artists so we encouraged it from a really early age. She does best when we color with her and are modeling.

My daughter colors for about 5-10 mins, and then she'll try to eat it or write on the wall 🫠

Coloring was hit or miss with mine until he tried the egg spinner. He loved holding the markers while the egg was spinning. I used wooden eggs. And he stayed engaged for a long time!

Maybe something similar to this would be great for coloring. More meditative.