Tesselations

I have always had difficulties with tesselations. 
Back when I was teaching, we had to do a section in Geometry about tesselations. 
Goodness, that was tough for me. 
My poor students probably didn't get the best lesson that day!
It's not that I didn't like them.
I even have an MC Escher video (very cool) that was given to me by my math ed. supervisor in college.
Tesselations just don't like me.

But as I was perusing the internet, I found this tutorial of sorts.
Awesome.
Perfect for Thanksgiving.
Taking a lesson from the tissue paper votives, I tried this first before instructing the kids.
Good thing too.
They needed quite a bit of help acutally constructing the template for their tessealation.
In the end, the kids did a good job tracing, and the entertainment of this lasted close to an hour.

This is probably not the best activity for a four year old.  Ezren got a little frustrated toward the end, and decided he would just color on the back of his paper. 

Chad's . . .

Olivia's . . .

Mine . . .

Isaac's . . .

Hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving!