Little research has been conducted on preschool children's ability to copy non-figural information. The first part of the current study looked at preschool children's ability to differentially perceive and copy graphic strokes, examining which properties of a given stimulus children attend to, and, consequently, which properties are preserved in their reproductions. Children were asked to copy five basic scribbles: dots, horizontal and vertical lines, and horizontal and vertical continuous movements. Older 3-year-old children consistently produced graphic strokes corresponding to those they were asked to copy, while younger 3-year-old children did not. Although children were able to preserve the discrete feature of the dots and the lines, children demonstrated difficulty preserving the continuity of the continuous movements stimuli. In addition, younger children demonstrated specific difficulty reproducing horizontal graphic strokes and showed greater variability in their copying behavior than older children The second part of the study required adults to judge which stimulus children attempted to reproduce. The results indicated that adults more often correctly matched replications produced by older than by younger children. In addition, all adults rated children's reproductions of continuous movements as less closely matching the target model as compared to their reproductions of discrete stimuli. In sum, children's ability to copy non-figural information is beginning to emerge during the third year, as younger 3-year-old children are beginning to preserve some basic features of simple graphic strokes, while older 3-year-old children more consistently do so