Abstract
The purpose of this study is to describe the prospects of "as if" drawing activities in early childhood education. Generally, most preschool and nursery school teachers, and art education researchers consider "as if" drawing activity to be an important form of artistic play for children. However, they tend to pay much less attention to the future of "as if" drawing. The results in this study showed that: 1) "as if" drawing should aim to develop children's creativity in the 21st century 2) pattern recognition prototypes may encourage children's creative drawing in "as if" activity.
