Form drawing is repetitive drawing of symbols and shapes—both linear and lateral, zigzag or congruous knots. They develop in difficulty through the years (adding algebraic patterns and cultural representations in later years) and begin when the child is turning 7 years old. Some benefits of form drawing include multi-sensory learning, crossing the mid-line, visual motor integration, and spatial intelligence. These serve a foundation for both reading and writing through eye focus, body awareness and working with both curved and straight lines. Form drawing is an excellent foundation skill for improving handwriting, concentration and spatial awareness. Form drawing brings cognitive feeling and problem solving skills together using a simple, story-telling approach. All the lessons are built on stories and it is through story that the form drawings emerge. Form drawing, although an art, does not begin with elaborate pictures but rather ideas from the story which are developed through line and space techniques.