Discovering+tessellations

Lets discover Tessellations  [|M C Escher] [|Tessellation Town]  [|Tessellations.org]  [|Cool maths lessons - tessellations] Once you have looked at Escher's artwork, explored Tessellation town and checked out the other sites, your mission is to...
 * 1)   Take a simple geometric shape and tessellate it. Colour in the shapes in different shades to show the pattern. Instructions - [|tessellations geometric shapes.doc]
 * 2)   Take a square piece of paper and cut out a shape from one side of the paper and glue/tape it back on to the opposite side. Repeat. Do this on two sides only. Tessellate your shape on another piece of paper and colour it in. Instructions - [|Tessellating cut out shape.doc]
 * 3)   Now you have practiced tessellating, you are going to do it using Paint on the computer. Instructions - [|Tessellating in Paint.doc]

If you get stuck - ask a friend or two to help you or ask the teacher nicely if your friends are also not sure!