![]() Answer the fun questions in this Snowflake Art Challenges PDF download. ![]() Figure out if cutting a triangle will make a different shape when the paper is opened.Create lines or shapes of specific lengths with a ruler.Draw shapes they are less familiar with (e.g., rhombus).If this activity is not challenging enough, we suggest encouraging children to: Then draw and complete the design together. Have children describe whether to add a line, curve, triangle, or other shape and how many of each to cut along each side.Show pictures of simple paper snowflake designs as examples (you can even use the ones in this blog post!).If this activity is too challenging, we suggest you: The amount of learning support children will need to do this activity varies. If you accidentally do so, explore what happens to the design! Ideas for Adjusting the Challenge What happens if you make the snowflakes bigger or smaller?Īs you work, try to avoid cutting too much from the point that joins all the folded sides. Figure out how many snowflakes you have room to hang in your windows by counting or measuring the space. Size. Use different sizes of paper to make bigger and smaller snowflakes.“When I open this piece of paper, how many little triangle shapes will there be? How can we figure it out? Let’s open and see.” Then refold and continue cutting. Making predictions. After cutting but before opening the folded triangle, predict how many shapes will result from cutting just one line or shape.Practice doing this until you unfold a full circle! Then ask children to predict what this “pie piece” shape will look like when it’s unfolded. Shapes and spatial relations. Cut a quarter of a circle along the edge of one folded triangle.Shapes. Notice if the shapes you cut in the folded triangle change when you unfold the triangle.Counting. Count how many individual pieces of paper are stacked in the folded triangle (e.g., two if folded once four if folded twice).As you do this, look for opportunities to notice and talk about early math concepts, including: Step 3: Cut the folded triangle.ĭraw lines, curves, and shapes around the edges of your folded triangle and then cut them out. Repeat this step two more times so that you end up with an even smaller folded triangle. Once you have the paper square, fold it in half diagonally to form a triangle. You could also use a ruler to measure equal lengths on all four sides of the square. Then trim the strip of paper on the bottom. If using a standard piece of rectangular paper, take one corner and fold it diagonally to the straight edge. The equal sides of each square make sure each snowflake will be symmetrical after you’re done cutting. They closed it, moved the paint around inside and opened it up to discover symmetrical designs on their vases–they LOVED this part! Once dried, the vase was glued somewhere on their tablecloth, the flowers were made with tissue paper and the stems were drawn with oil pastels.First prepare your paper so that it’s shaped like a square. They were cut out and then the students put paint blobs on one side of their vase and the middle section. The symmetrical vases were made by folding a colored piece of construction paper in half and drawing half a design of a vase starting at the fold. Next we talked about flowers in vases and where you put them to show them off and we all agreed they should be placed on a table with a nice tablecloth! I gave out a large black paper and kids drew their large tables and colored the tablecloths with oil pastels. We talked about symmetry and discussed the things that we knew were symmetrical and they were quite suprised to find out that their faces and their bodies were symmetrical too! I demonstrated this by calling up different students and pretending to cut them in half and folding them! ![]() I know this because my son Sebey is in Grade one! I saw this idea on Oodles of Art and thought it would be a lovely lesson to use with my grade one class since they were learning about symmetry in math class. ![]()
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