5th Grade-Catalina Tiles

To begin this lesson we talked about the culture of The Catalina Island off the coast of California. We discussed how there are tiles all over the island. Every tile is symmetrical and creates a radial design.

Students created one fourth of the tile. We drew this design on half of a 4x4" piece of white paper folded diagonally. Students then went to the window and traced the design onto the other half of the paper. 

Next we transferred our design one a piece if foam by placing the paper on top if the foam and pressed down to create an impression in the foam. 

The following class, students took turns printing their foam block onto a 9 x 9" white paper into a radial design. We made sure that we printed tha same corner if the foam in the middle of the paper all 4 times we printed it.