Kaleidoscope Designs
Each student created a wedge shaped “master design”, (shaped kind of like a pie piece.) The master design depicted images that reflected each student’s hobbies or personal interests and had to include “edge” shapes that were symmetrical half-shapes, as well as self-contained shapes. Students traced their master design a total of six times on white paper, using a light table. Tracing the “master” three times forwards and three times backwards resulted in the circular designs you see in the finished project. (Half-shapes became whole shapes during this process.) We used thin Sharpies to outline our designs and markers to color them. Students also had the option of adding glitter glue or metallic pens to embellish small parts of the design.
Ms. Amsler's Artroom 
Nov 23, 2023 @ 00:07:01
These are AMAZING! I think I am going to give these a try with my 8th graders. What grade did you do these with? Did the kids start with the middle and work their ways to the outer edge or did they start wherever? You have the best ideas and I love all the samples! Thanks for sharing your lessons with us.
Nov 23, 2023 @ 02:25:08
Hi! I haven’t done this lesson out in a while and therefore I don’t have as much step-by-step description as some of my other pages on this site. The original design is very simple wedge shape that is 1/6 of the whole circle size, and then you trace it a total of six times, three times forward, three times backwards. Sorry I don’t have pictures to make it more clear. But the reason they are so precise is because they first created their wedge shaped master design and then simply traced it to complete the circle.
Nov 26, 2023 @ 01:44:18
Hello! What size would you say the circle is in diameter (9×9″ or 12×12″)? Also, did they cut the circles out ahead of time or did you give them a pie piece tracer? Thank you…I love this project (and honestly, all the projects) you do!!
Nov 26, 2023 @ 18:55:39
The circles are about 9″ in diameter. They are given a pie-piece tracer shape and a circle template as a guide for placing and tracing their wedge. They cut out the finished circle at the end.