It is important that everything involving the education of the child is developmentally appropriate. Anything that is not developmentally appropriate keeps the child from learning and growing. Worksheets and color sheets for example keep the child in the scribble stage which slows down the time in which they enter the schematic or symbolic stage of development. Children learn by experimenting with concrete objects that allow them to manipulate and modify them. Worksheets and color sheets are not concrete objects and do not give the child the freedom and opportunity to experiment. Children can not manipulate or modify worksheets or coloring books like they can with materials such as play dough, puzzles, legos, and stencils. These learning objects
