Christmas maths: festive tessellations
<p>Christmas maths - tessellations. Christmas themed tessellation activity for students to complete in class or for homework. A great consolidation activity that can engage students at Christmas. This could more than a whole lesson if you get the students to tessellate a design and then also colour it (great for displays!).</p>
<p>Includes:</p>
<ul>
<li>Christmas tree (moderately easy)</li>
<li>Bauble (medium)</li>
<li>Candy cane (easy)</li>
<li>Christmas stocking with curved edges (hard)</li>
<li>Geometric christmas stocking (easy)</li>
<li>Elf (Hard)</li>
<li>Santas head (medium)</li>
<li>present (easy)<br />
For each shape there is the following types of sheets:</li>
</ul>
<p>An A4 portrait sheet with small squares and a small shape to start students off<br />
An A4 portrait sheet with big squares and a big shape to start students off<br />
A small template which is approx 1/8 of A4<br />
A big template which are on their own A4 page<br />
Examples of how to tessellate the shape/pre-made colouring pages for students that are really struggling to tessellate the shape correctly.</p>
<p>The geometric Christmas stocking is available as a free product <a href="https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/christmas-maths-stocking-tessellation-12030504">here</a>.</p>
<p>Click <a href="https://www.tes.com/resources/search/?authorId=694668&q=christmas&shop=MissEHoney">here</a> for more Christmas maths resources</p>