Explore tessellations on quadrilateral figures by transforming quadrilaterals through manipulation of the corners to create new four-sided figures in Shodor's online tessellation game Floor Tiles. Transform triangles, rectangles and hexagons into polygons while playing Shodor's Tessellate! game (both (at shodor.org). Players can choose different colors for the shapes to help distinguish internal patterns and to help highlight the effects of differently shaped movements within the tessellations.
Enter Tessellation town (at mathcats.com) and help create a virtual tessellation city. Drag and drop tessellation pieces shaped like people to make Escher-like tessellations of people or help build the town by tessellating its houses. Players build beautiful tile floors and make tessellation gardens with hexagonal flowers. Tessellate trees in the woods, waves and fish to fill the ocean and animals of all sorts in this virtual world filled with tessellations.
Solve a tessellation jigsaw puzzle online in two minutes at SurfNetKids (at surfnetkids.com). Players drag and drop puzzle pieces in this repeating pattern puzzle to try to beat the clock. Choose from five polygonal shapes, triangles, squares, hexagons, octagons and dodecagons to make tessellations without any spaces between the pieces while playing the National Library of Virtual Manipulatives' Tiling with Tessellations game (at nlvm.usu.edu). This game uses drag and drop technology while allowing players to also choose the colors of the shapes so as to help recognize patterns more easily. Players are allowed to clone, flip or rotate the pieces in this game as well.
Tessellate triangles, parallelograms, squares, rhombus, trapezoids and hexagons playing the Pattern Blocks game (at ejad.best.vwh.net). This game allows players to drag, drop and rotate shapes while also providing information about the different shapes being used. Print out black and white tessellation coloring sheets at CoolMath's website (at www.coolmath-games.com). Coloring tessellation pages helps kids distinguish patterns while repeating shapes in design. You can buy coloring books of blank tessellated patterns online at Dover Publications (at store.doverpublications.com).