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| Draw trees |
http://www.geocities.com/lillieanne72/bigtrees.htm | Pine trees |
| Pixel People |
Your kids know how to do this...but do you? Use
creations as icons on web pages, for any illustrations you may want. Some kids make very complex drawings this way. http://tutorials.cetric.com/?v=display&cat=mspaint&id=1&page=1 |
Big Hair Texas Librarian |
| Structured Tesselations |
These were easy for me, and also look at other
options at this site: http://www.teachers.ash.org.au/geparker/ creating_tessellations_using_microsoft_paintbrush.htm |
Tesselations From Triangles |
| Make A Fish-- Tesselations |
These were a little harder, might be a second activity
in tesselation making. They are inspired by the work of M.C. Escher:
http://www.wsd1.org/lgc98/teach/Paint/makefish.htm |
Fish Tesselations |
Puzzle |
Open a picture of a person, place, animal, etc.
that you are studying. Using the select tool, section the picture into squares.
Holding the shift key down while you are using the rectangle tool results
in perfect squares. Rotate the squares. I did not even move them around,
just rotated. Have the kids reassemble, then identify the picture and look
up information about it. |
Bluebonnet Puzzle |
| Wrapping paper |
As with tesselations, do this by copying, rotating,
pasting. I used a couple of images that students had done of flowers--would
make nice wrapping paper for Mother's Day gifts. |
Wrapping paper |
HERE ARE MY TREES....REMEMBER I AM ARTISTICALLY CHALLENGED...YOUR KIDS WILL DO BETTER!
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HERE IS MY PIXEL PERSON...SHE IS A BIG HAIRED TEXAS GIRL...YOUR KIDS
WILL DO BETTER AGAIN. SHOWN FIRST IS PAINT SCREEN DRAWING WITH GRID LINES. SECOND IS SMALL ICON AFTER RESIZING. LIKE LOTS OF FOLKS, SHE LOOKS BETTER IN THE SMALLER SIZE
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STRUCTURED TESSELATIONS...I FOUND THESE EASY TO DO, STARTING WITH A RIGHT TRIANGLE
FISH TESSELATIONS
AGAIN, YOUR STUDENTS WILL DO MUCH BETTER! THESE BUILD UPON OBJECTS DRAWN WITH THE FREE FORM TOOL IN PAINT.
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WRAPPING PAPER
Start with orignal student drawings, I often use small pictures about 1" square drawn with colored pencils, markers, etc. and then scanned. Select two or more, and just make a pattern by rotating and pasting and building, much like tessations. Original pictures and portion of resulting design shown below. You might also use this for background in a document if it were formatted as washout.
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