Interleaving circles to make patterns

Patterns with pairs of circles

Take paper circles of two colours . Fold

in half and in half again to get creases at right angles.

These creases will help you to overlap the circles the right amount.

Glue in position like this.

Make pairs of different colours and interleave them

Add more pairs

To create a final tessellation like this

If you overlap the pairs in a different way you can create a different tessellation