Studying ways to make medium hexagons. I bought two new different types of pattern blocks.

What I like about 21st Century Pattern Blocks:

new shapes

What I don’t like about 21st Century Pattern Blocks:

too many of the same old shape included (they are supposed to be new shapes!), not real wood, not as thick

What I like about Upscale Pattern Blocks:

same shapes, scaled UP!

What I don’t like about Upscale Pattern Blocks:

too many of the same old size included (they are supposed to be bigger sizes!), not real wood, not as thick

The floor is slippery, so we tried working on yoga mats.

Yoga mats are ugly.

If you spend any time looking at this (I don’t blame you if you don’t),

you can see that we started off with a spiral again.

It is not quite as uterine as the last one.

We were trying to make a spiral, but the spirals always straighten out in the end.

This one reminds me of a uterus.

If an adult asked you to look at their coloring book,

what would it take for you to humor them and do so?

Some adults like coloring. I prefer patterning.

This is the largest symmetrical pattern we can make with out pattern blocks.