Christmas Tessellations Holiday Math and Art Activity
$4.00
This a Christmas/Holiday themed tessellation activity for students to do something a bit creative during the holiday season while still doing math. This could be more than a whole lesson if you get the students to tessellate a design and then also color it (great for displays!). Use as a one off lesson, for early finishers, for sub plans, create unique greetings cards or create a great display for your classroom!
Includes:
Christmas tree (moderately easy)
Bauble (medium)
Candy cane (easy)
Christmas stocking with curved edges (hard)
Geometric Christmas stocking (easy)
Elf (Hard)
Santa’s head (medium)
present (easy) For each shape there is the following types of sheets:
- An A4 portrait sheet with small squares and a small shape to start students off
- An A4 portrait sheet with big squares and a big shape to start students off
- A small template which is approx 1/8 of a page
- A big template which is on its own page
- Examples of how to tessellate the shape/pre-made colouring pages for students that are really struggling to tessellate the shape correctly.
For information on tessellations, click here.
Instructions:
A tessellation is when a shape repeats over and over to cover a specific area without any gaps or overlaps. Essentially, the surface becomes covered with a particular pattern of shapes that never cover each other or leave open spaces.
Easy – print off the template (big or small) and cut it out on card. Students should try and use the template to make a repeating pattern with the shapes with NO gaps (see the Examples of how to tessellate the shape to see how it fits together). When they have filled out the whole page then they could color it in.
Harder – Give students one of the squared sheets without a template and get them to tessellate the given shape using the squares as a guide.
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