On Friday, Oct. 15 David Wiesner will be having a book signing here at the Museum from 3:30-5:30 pm. He will be introducing his newly published book  Art & Max.  You might be familiar with his visual story telling from his  Caldecott Award-winning  books , Tuesday, The Three Pigs, and Flotsam.

If you miss David Wiesner on Friday you can catch him and  over 200 other authors at the State Capital Building for the Texas Book Festival this weekend.

Art & Max features two lizards who create art. Only fictional lizards paint, but the patterns along the backs of lizards can inspire art. When shapes fit together perfectly creating a pattern it is called a tessellation. There are often interesting tessellation patterns made by scales on lizards’ backs.

Can you think of a shape that when repeated it creates a pattern without leaving any gaps? Maybe you can think of two shapes that when used together create a perfect patters. Cut these shapes out of an index card. Trace around the shape. Repeat until you have filled the page.

After I finished coloring my tessellation I used it as a backdrop to show my Austin Children’s Museum pride.

What are you going to do with your tessellation? Leave a comment to let us know! You could make it into a lizard or write your initials on it.