If he has no playmates, his dolls have to play their parts, or his toy animals have to be endowed with life, so that they may become fellow-actors with him on the stage that he has selected.
No instinct is more inevitable, more sure to energise, than this.
We will call it the _dramatic instinct_.
In both these instincts the child is struggling to grow, to expand his being, by going out of himself, through the medium of sympathy and imagination--twin aspects of the same vital tendency--into the lives of other living beings.

We will therefore call these the _Sympathetic Instincts_, and place them in a class by themselves.
(3) From his very babyhood the child delights in colour, and at a very early age he learns to love and understand pictures.

Then comes the desire to make these for himself.

Give him pencil and paper, give him chalk, charcoal, a paint-box, and other suitable materials, and he will set to work of his own accord to depict what he sees or has seen, either with his outward or his inward eye.

Give him a lump of clay, and he will try to mould it into the likeness of something that has either attracted his attention, or presented itself to his imagination.