Creating Tessellations And Patterns from “A” Shapes

Patterns with squares

A square can easily be made out of any “A” size rectangle

Create a family “A” size rectangles by folding and cutting in half.

Then create a family of squares.

Use two colours and create two families.

Then nest the squares of different colours inside each other.

When working with a class it is a good idea to get pairs of children to work with different colours, to produce a family each and then exchange squares so each has a complementary series.

They nest perfectly.

Here are some more possible patterns

Or create an eight pointed star by overlapping the squares

and then nest them