Hexagon Project

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You can select any color construction paper to use for your hexagon project.  I made a poste board template of the hexagons so that I could copy the same shape several times.

The diameter of the yellow (1st color) hexagons from one endpoint to another is 15.5 cm  It is a regular hexagon with a side of 8.5 cm.  You will need seven of these hexagons.  Make seven and cut them out.  There is a small hexagon that has sides of 2.5 cm drawn in the exact middle.  Do not cut the middle hexagon.

The blue (2nd color) hexagons have sides of 2.5 cm.  Make 42 of these and glue them on the large hexagons.

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My third color is red.  These hexagons are also 2.5cm.  Make fourteen of these hexagons of the third color.  Draw a straight line from one endpoint to another.  Three lines inside each hexagon make six equilateral triangles.  Cut and separate the triangles.

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The triangles will be glued around the center hexagon area pointing outward.

The triangles will also be glued on the sides pointing inward toward the center.

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Use a large page of construction paper.  This will be the fourth color. My fourth color is brown.  Glue the hexagons along the edge of the bottom of the page.  The paper hexagons touch endpoint to endpoint.  When you glue the third one onto the page it is fine that it goes a little off the brown page.  Glue two more hexagons on top of the first three and try to get them to touch endpoint to endpoint.

Glue a half page of construction paper to the bottom of the larger page.  Glue your last two hexagons onto the brown page.

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Make 12 small hexagons of the 2.5 cm size.  Use a fifth color.  I used green as my fifth color.  Glue them around the center as illustrated.  Glue them around the edge as shown in the pictures.

The final step is to cut along the outside edge to make a large hexagon tile.

You can make connections to Islamic architectural geometric decorations or maybe to the Ndebele in Africa who decorate their homes with bright geometry.

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