#18 Extend and Connect

Extend and Connect

Challenge one another to create particular folds or cut out particular shapes. Can you make a square in the middle of the snowflake, or a star at its side?

Make snowflakes with four, five, six, seven, or eight sectors. Use these snowflakes to model times tables.

Try reverse engineering – cut a shape or a letter/number out of unfolded sheet of paper. Let the child explore its line of symmetry (if any) and make predictions as to how folded paper has to be cut to result in the given shape. Test her predictions.