Zentangling or Zendoodling is a relaxing way of creating intricate and sophisticated patterns without alot of worry or fear of mistakes! Like many of the other things that happen in the art room, I wanted this experience to feel fun and free, but really be a series of steps that lead to amazing skills and confidence building results.
After showing students in second grade the video below, they started to work on their own patterns. We discussed organic and geometric shapes and how patterns can be regular, irregular, and have layers to them.
The patterns are doodled on the back of a paper that has a different kind of pattern on it. The whole design will become a rectangular prism through the use of a net (pattern that shows you how to construct a 3D form from 2D shapes.)
