To enhance that carpet feel we decided to add a simple weaving pattern at the two ends of the carpet (going in and out) and then made some tassels for the very ends.We then traced over the design with black permanent marker and black paint pen to make your design pop! (We used paint and paint pens, but if I was doing this in the classroom I would use marker or tempera markers). Colour in your design- this is a good time to use colour to accent your pattern- think about how the order in which you colour each tile.Here’s an example in action after we painted it, so you could see the slide more clearly:.We did this four times and then created a border with our ruler on the edges. Create another line of your template right beside the other, sliding your template and tracing it. Continue to do this in both directions, sliding your template. As you can see the template that our son created looks like a cat in a way, so line up the ears with the previous template’s nose. We lined up our template with the centre line to the left or of the the vertical line, traced around it and then slid it to line up with the edge of the previous template. We then took a ruler (a metre stick would actually be the best for this) and found the centre point of our poster board measuring the width and length and dividing it by two.You can do this with two sides if you would like to make your tessellation more complex.
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