HexaFlexagon

Welcome to the Virtual Fridge a weekly art meme where we can hang our children's art on a virtual fridge. This meme was started by Jennifer over at A Glimpse of our Life who kindly invited three other bloggers to take turns hosting this weekly meme.

Your hosts are

• Jennifer at A Glimpse of our Life - 29 August
• Kym at Homeschool Coffee Break - 5 September
• Nikki at Angels of Heart - 12 September
• Chareen over here - 19 September

This week Sir N and I have been playing with HexaFlexagon's.

A Flexagon is a flat geometric model constructed out of folding strips of paper to form a moveable/flexible shape.  When flexed these shapes reveal different faces/facets of the shape produced. They were discovered by Arthur Stone in 1939.

Over at Aunt Annie's Crafts you can download and print either a patterned, numbered or blank template to colour in. She also has a step by step tutorial.

My nephews school sent home a pdf link to some instructions and templates you can find HERE.


I had a little trouble with folding it so I watched this video which is a step by step on making one from a piece of blank paper without a template.





For an over view and history of the Hexaflexagon is watch this clip. She speaks very fast but it's still interresting.


I have since found out that you can make a TriHexaFlexagon which is a lot easier.

We're having a lot of fun with these.  Do you know of any other mathematical game puzzles along these lines that we could try ?

Blessings
Chareen

I invite you to take some photo's of your children's artistic pursuits put them in a post and link up with me I would love to come over and see the wonderful art your children have enjoyed doing.

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