Today I gave a pen to my 8-month old daughter for the first time at the whiteboard (part of the wall is made of whiteboard in her room). Actually, she took it from me after I demonstrated a few squiggly lines and she then quickly drew a bunch of vertical lines which made her quite happy. The first lesson came to and end when she began to eat the pen - do'h! Still, she loved it, and as you can see she got a bit of her face as well. Very creative :-)