#29 For All Ages

For All Ages

Grown-ups: Help children sustain the fractal structure. Provide tools such as stamps, as well as your drawing and paper-cutting services, to make repetition easier for kids. Explore the ethnomathematics of fractals, such as African patterns.

Babies: Babies like to look at fractal art and to observe its making. Use their favorite characters and objects as bases of fractals. Invite your baby to pick objects by pointing at toys or pictures. Use touchscreen devices to help the baby play with simple fractal software.

Toddlers and Young Kids: Toddlers have hard time remembering to make every part of a picture. Mark the places where the next level of pictures goes, or invite the child to do it before drawing or gluing. You can mark places with dots, stickers or raisins – to be eaten as you progress!

Big Kids: Children can predict the number of objects at the next level, and pose and solve other puzzles about quantities in fractals. Offer children to use software to make digital fractals, and to design large-scale artistic projects such as fractal quilts.