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Don’t hesitate—tessellate! We’ve got a load of fun animal designs you can make from the R15664 Tessellations Mosaics. Turn your beautiful artwork into a hanging mobile using our R51302 Nature Mobile.

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You’ll Need:

R15664 Tessellations Mosaics
R51302 Nature Mobile
Glue stick
Scissors
Artwork printed on 8.5 x 11″ paper
String
Paint or markers

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Print out the artwork onto photocopy paper and arrange the Tessellations Mosaics onto the paper. Use the outlines within the design as clues to what kinds of shapes you’ll use to fill in the designs.

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The shapes and sizes of our Tessellations Mosaic are similar to traditional Pattern Blocks but in different colors. You can use your Pattern Blocks resources with our mosaics.

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Our Tessellations Mosaics are capable of presenting you with the same educational value as Pattern Blocks but are more plentiful to allow your entire class to benefit from the experience of putting them together. These mosaics help to build critical thinking skills and allow students to explore the properties of geometric shapes. Using the Tessellations Mosaics, you can explore a variety of puzzle-solving exercises below or come up with your own!

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Cut around the outside edge of the animal tessellation.

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Flip the card sheet over to the blank side. Give your students more Tessellations Mosaics to fill in the other side.

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Challenge students in older grades to not look at the opposite side of the cutout to match the arrangement, but instead come up with a new one!

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Once students are satisfied with their new pattern, they can paste it down to the back of the cutout.

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Punch a hole through the top of the cutout and attach some string to it.

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Tie the other end of the string to our R51302 Nature Mobile Maker to make a Tessellations Mosaics mobile! The bright and beautiful colors of the Tessellations Mosaics work very well against the subtle nature-inspired design of our Nature Mobile Maker.

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Make a lovely mobile decoration for spring! Our R51302 Nature Mobile Maker is a great base for making your mobile. Add on found objects such as leaves, feathers or flowers!

Age: 3+

Duration: 15-20 minutes plus drying times

Learning Objectives: Explore the natural world through decorating the mobile with natural found objects. Experiment with gravity and weight through kinetic studies. Observe the movements and flow of air and how this affects the balance of weight on the mobile.

You’ll Need:

• R51302 Nature Mobile Maker

• R15290 Nature Paper (or found objects, such as leaves, twigs, feathers, flowers, etc…)

• Scissors

• String

• Markers or paint

• Hole punch

First pop the blank Nature Mobile Maker out from its paper backing. Separate all the elements and then place the mobile on a protected flat surface. Use paint or markers to color in the branches brown and to color in the leaves green.

Be sure to color on both sides of the mobile! This will make sure that from anywhere the mobile is viewed, it looks complete.

It was a bit of a rainy day when we made our mobiles, so we weren’t able to go exploring for found objects in nature. As a substitute, we used our R15290 Nature Paper! Pop out several of the elements from the paper backing. You’ll need no more than 6-10 elements per mobile. Mix large objects with smaller ones for a diverse appearance. Hole punch through the tops of each element you’ve chosen, then tie on a bit of string to hang from the mobile.

Our mobile is designed with ingenious little flip-up tabs that can be raised and pressed down over the length of string to secure it in place. This makes attachment way more easier than messing around with tape or tying the pieces on with difficulty.

Our camper friends took their finished mobiles out to the garden to hang them up among the bushes.

Even though the sun cleared up and we were able to resume our nature walk, we still had a great time making all our paper mobiles!

The mobiles seemed to blend right in with our amazing forest background!

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