![]() ![]() Finally, color your design with markers, colored pencils or crayons. (Remember that whatever details you add to one shape, will need to be added to EVERY shape! Keep your details simple.)ĩ. Think stripes, circles, waves STEP 3: Use a pencil to shade different areas to add interest and contrast to your design. STEP 2: Color your zentangles with different patterns using a marker. Trace over your pencil lines with a Sharpie and add details to each shape to help others recognize what you “saw” in it. Glue Stick Ruler Black paper INSTRUCTIONS STEP 1: Print out the zentangle template. Repeat this step until your whole paper is covered and there are no gaps or spaces.Ĩ. There shouldn’t be any gaps or overlapping. Now, pick up your tile and place it next to your traced design, as if it were a piece fitting into a jigsaw puzzle. (I use 12″x18″ paper when I do this with 6th graders.)Ħ. Place your tile on the center of a 9″x12″ paper and carefully trace around it. Lightly sketch your idea onto your tile…. Turn your newly created shape (we’ll call this your “tile”) in different directions and use your imagination to see if it “looks like” anything. (For older students, you can make this project more challenging by having them repeat this step on an adjacent side of their card, as in the sample project above.)Ĥ. If you include a corner in your cut, it makes it easier to line the shape up on the opposite side. Now, tape the shape so that it is exactly across from the spot you cut it from. (The lines on your index card will show you if you’ve flipped or turned it!)ģ. Next, cut a shape from one side of your 3″x3′ card, and slide it to the opposite side of the card, without flipping it over or turning it. Polygon – a shape with three or more sidesĢ. Tessellation – a pattern made with polygons that completely fills a space with no gaps, spaces or overlaps. Escher – a Dutch artist (1898-1972) who is best known for his mathematically inspired drawings and prints which displayed great realism, while at the same time showing impossible perspective, eye trickery and metamorphosis. We then looked at whether that was the easiest way to get the pattern and T pointed out that two triangles together would fit along 1 side of the square and the squares all made a neat row.M.C. The geometric-shaped tile must tessellate itself and fit precisely in the tessellation. A chessboard is an example of a simple tessellation the squares meet side to side without gaps. The first attempt was very random but it was interesting to see how T was trying to get the squares and triangles to fit together. Simple tessellation patterns have a basic design using a geometric shape like a square or triangle they can also be more complex using irregular shapes. After demonstrating by printing 4 triangles around a square, I set the challenge to fill the paper with a pattern with no spaces using just the triangles and squares. We started off with a little demonstration of how the sides of a triangle were, all the same, size as the 4 sides of the square and that we could print them to get them to match up easily. Use this square to cut out an equilateral triangle from the other potato half – it took me a little measuring and comparing to get the measurements of the sides of both the square and triangle equal however if you have a square template and a triangle template that you know tessellate then use this to create the shapes in the bottom of the potato half. Cut out a square from one of the potato halves. This time, we will be using squares and triangles as squares and triangles tessellate nicely. It will help them relate to the subject better. This is nice to do the cutting of the potato with the children, however, to get accurate shapes that will fit together it’s much easier to do it independently in preparation for the activity especially if you are doing this with a class or a group of children.Ĭut a potato in half – your children will find it easier to print if you create a handle in the top of the potato – use a knife to cut a section out from one side – leave a centre section of about 1cm and then cut out a similar section from the other side. While introducing kids to the history of tessellations, try to show them some tessellation examples in art. Two different coloured paints Preparation To start to grasp tessellation and pattern making with simple triangles and rectangles.More Fruit and Vegetable Ideas for Preschoolers and Kindergarten.
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