Tessellation Puzzle and Exhibit

Are you with an Arts Festival?  A Science Festival?  A STEM/STEAM event?  Or just looking for a good STEM/STEAM activity at your event?  Check out our updated and improved Tessellation Exhibit, available for rent for your event.

(If you aren't familiar with the Tessellation, it's where you create a shape (or shapes) in just the right way so that when you repeat the shape, it interlocks with itself. M.C. Escher's Lizards is the most famous example.  Click HERE to see it.)

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For the youngest participants, use Crayola Washable Markers to color one of our oversized pirate puzzle pieces!  The pieces just rinse clean with water, so you never run out of pieces!  (It's MUCH easier to clean than our old crayon model.)

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Can you see how the pirate puzzle pieces fit together...?  There are nine different pirate shapes, so it's harder than it looks!  Try it and you'll see how tessellation works.  The exhibit comes with approximately 350 total velcro puzzle pieces, and six 6'x4' velcro panels to put them on.

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Learn more about this nifty crossroads of art and geometry.  See examples, some history, how it became art, and how you can do it!  We'll send four 6'x4' learning panels, similar to what you'd see at a Children's Museum.  (Learning panels simplifed for 2019!)

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Use your artistry to create your own character in our ready-to-tessellate paper shapes.  What can you visualize...?  Now draw it!  We'll send you 600 total paper shapes (of two or three different looks).  Put them in front of your participants and say...  "What do you see?  A dog?  An alien?  A flower?  A rocket ship?"  Use crayons, colored pencils, or markers.  (Just make sure not to use the crayons on the pirate puzzle pieces!)

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Post your creations to Instragram (like THIS) and we'll pull them down and compose your full tessellation masterpieces!  We'll help you use them to maximize your sponsorship.  We can get you digital files for either your website or your sponsor's website, or we could help create prints for your sponsor to display, or greeting cards, or whatever makes sense for your situation.  How can we help?

 

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The Exhibit

  • TWO hexagonal stands, each with six 6'x4' openings.  Each stand is approximately 8' in diameter.
  • FOUR 6'x4' Educational Panels---SIMPLIFIED in 2018 for younger participants.
  • 350 total Pirate Puzzle Pieces--plastic with velcro backing.  Pieces are 6" to 7" tall.  There are nine different pirate shapes.
  • You can COLOR and WIPE OFF the puzzle pieces--now using Crayola MARKERS.  They wipe with just a quick wipe of a wet sponge.
  • SIX 6'x4' velcro panels---bring up your puzzle piece to fit it in with the others.
  • 600 paper shapes for you to challenge your participants to imagine and draw out a character, animal, object, etc.  Approx 3" to 3.5" tall.
  • TWO 6'x4' vinyl panels to tape up paper shapes.
  • FOUR "Instructional Table Triangles" to show participants how the paper shape activity works.
  • After the event, we'll put together approximately 25 compositions using your participants paper shape creations.  We'll provide digital files.

 

Prices and Rental Terms

RENTAL of Two Stands, Four Informational Panels, Six Velcro Panels, Two Paper Shape display panels, 350 Pirate Velcro Puzzle Pieces, Four Instructional "Table Triangles".  600 Paper Shapes are yours to keep.


$850 Rental Fee, plus two-way freight (usually to $200 to $300 each direction in the continental US---call for a quote to your location)

EVERYTHING except paper shapes must be returned.  We charge $3.00 EACH for lost puzzle pieces.

It ships in five cases---each 55"x16"x12". Freight averages to $250 each direction---call for a quote to your location.

 

Abbreviated Tessellation Activity

For clients in Canada, where customs fees will make our full exhibit rental unfeasible, and Alaska & Hawaii, where shipping will likely do the same, we can offer an abbreviated tessellation activity.

  • The FOUR Educational Panels reduced from to 3'x2' and printed on paper.
  • 1000 paper shapes for you to challenge your participants to imagine and draw out a character, animal, object, etc.  Approx 3" to 3.5" tall.
  • "Instructional Table Triangles" printed on paper, with tabs and slots, so you can assemble into the triangles.
  • After the event, we'll put together approximately 25 compositions using your participants paper shape creations.  We'll provide digital files.

$475 plus one-way shipping (Likely $30 to $50 for Canada, Hawaii & Alaska)

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