This maths class is all about specific shapes and how they can be used in art!
Get the answers, plus ALL the activities for the great lesson HERE!
Tessellation
We are going to tessellate some shapes but what is tessellation?
It means to decorate or cover a surface with a pattern of repeated shapes, especially polygons, that fit together closely without gaps or overlapping.
Examples of tessellations in the real world include beehives and honeycombs, tiles on a wall or floor, and pavement tiling or the pieces of a jigsaw.
There is a famous artist who was also a scientist and mathematician who made a lot of his art based on tessellation.
His name was M.C. Escher. He always started with a polygon shape but if you look carefully you can see how he changed the shape slightly so that it became an animal. And then he tessellated them.
Take a look at how he made a pattern with bird shapes in the image below.
Let's tessellate!
Let's make our own tessellation art piece! 0
1 Use the image below to trace the swan or draw a swan on a piece of cardboard.
2 Ask an adult to help you cut it out. Always remember to be very carefully when using scissors.
3 Use this cut-out as a stencil and create a repeated pattern on a page.
4 Trace around the stencil on both sides so you have a pattern of the swan going both ways.
5 You can even move the swan around the page so it is facing up or down.
6 Keep tracing around the swan until you have filled the whole page with your pattern.
7 Now that all your swans are drawn, you can colour them in or leave them plain. It's your artistic choice!
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