Radial Dream Catchers

The other night, I stumbled upon this amazing smART art blog and was able to gather some ideas for all my students.  The first project that caught my attention was a dream catcher with radial symmetry.

As a class, we discussed the following vocabulary words:

Vocabulary
Radial Symmetry
Dream Catcher

Students got busy creating 6-7 circles on their paper.  Since I lack enough compasses for the whole class to use, students traced circles to get their dream catcher started.  From there, student used designs - letters, shapes, patterns - to fill in their circles.  The concept of radial symmetry is simple, choose a shape and repeat along the edge of the circle until the pattern meets again.