Islamic Art with Kids: Exploring Tessellations (Part 2 of 3)
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I thought it would be fun to have a family art gallery in our hallway celebrating Islamic Art. My children have became interested in the idea of repeated pattern since I have introduced it to them. They even came up with some neat ideas of their own!
It was pretty simple to create the pattern templates and we began tessellating…the hard part was cutting them out! Here’s a link we used:
http://mathforum.org/sum95/suzanne/cwtess.html
1. To make a square template open a cereal box and lay it flat. Cut squares 3X3.
2. Inside the square, draw shapes on two sides of the square, free-form or trace a shape. The shape needs to be a closed form.
3. Place the template on magazine picture or wrapping paper. Trace around the template and cut out template shapes. It would be best if you have 2 contrasting shapes.
4. Place the pattern shapes and glue them into place and……voila!!!!