Lizard Paradise

Our group class project with second-graders is complete! I had started off with an idea to make an M.C.Escher-style hexagonal tessellation. The hardest part was to design a shape that would tessellate nicely, and a lizard turned out to be just the thing.

I distributed 27 lizards to the kids to decorate with patterns. After they were done we assembled the lizards on the canvas and glued them. The kids had fun painting a color outline for each lizard. It took two 1.5 hour lessons for the kids to do the work, and everyone ended up felt pretty happy with the result. They picked the name for the project, "Lizard Paradise", and it will be part of the upcoming school auction.