Straight Line and Curved Line

The relationship of the straight line and curve constitutes the basis of all drawing, all design, and all of the letters that the first grader will encounter. This form drawing is often one of the first that a child does as school begins.

Symmetry of Curves

"Mirrored" form drawings help to strengthen the child's feeling for laterality, and also help prepare them to perceive letters in which curves may face right or left.

Straight Line Exercise

This is at once an exercise in symmetry and a challenge to see the "invisible" diagonal line that runs up from the middle line.

Symmetry Exercise

As the children progress, symmetries become more challenging, as the next few drawings demonstrate . . . .

We can see that, before the children learn their letters, they are developing a sense for the proper direction and proportion that letter takes.