Printmaking activities have become a common way for children to contact traditional art symbols because of their operability and intuition. Related analysis points out that children's preference for highly saturated colors is directly related to their emotional experience, and they often use symbol substitution and color reconstruction for creative transformation when simplifying traditional patterns. Based on this, this paper will discuss the behavioral characteristics of children's color perception, the path of creative transformation of cultural symbols, and the strategy of balancing tradition and innovation in printmaking education, with the aim of providing practical references for children's art education that take into account both cultural inheritance and creativity development.