Creating Tessellations
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1. Begin your incision/cut at a vertex (corner) on the shape, and cut any way
you want to as long as you exit from the adjacent vertex.
2. Remove the part you have cut and slide it away without rotating or flipping the shapes.
3. Slide the part to the opposite side and secure it there with tape. Be careful not to overlap the piece or make a gap. It should fit perfectly at the seam. This is your tessellating tile.
4. Trace it repeatedly without flipping or rotating or leaving gaps and making overlaps.
5. Repeat this until you fill up the page. Do not worry about shapes that are cut off by your paper's edge, remember a tessellation can go on forever on a continuous plane.
6. Decorate your paper after you have traced over the lines in black pen.
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