Seen in the Wild

Today I noticed the chairs outside a coffeeshop had a pattern I have been working with recently. It is based on a hexagon and is the centre part of the pattern I did here.   

Three

Islamic Geometric Pattern - Hexagon 4

This design is from The Alhambra, in Granada, Spain. I have been to The Alhambra, but pouring rain interfered with full exploration of the site, and if I saw this design, I do not remember it. I do, however,  remember how wet my feet were. All that aside, a series of colouring efforts revealed that only high contrast makes this design work. 

 The hexagon design isolated:

Project 2017 - In Conclusion

Letter Pages - 2

More pocket pages:

Mm

Hh

Rr

Ll

Aa

Jj

Oo

Letter Pages - 1

My grandson's third birthday is approaching. My gift will be a collection of letter pages using  as many meaningful connections as possible. Each letter has an introductory page and a pocket page. Like this:

Where possible, I used family members as the key word.  I won't show those pages here. My grandson will first get the letters in his name. Then I will suggest that the letters be introduced, maybe one a day, in the random order I created. Knowing alphabetical order is a skill in its way, but unrelated to letter identification, understanding letter sounds and eventually reading. 

Here are a few pocket pages:

(that is an iguana)

Name Books