Radial Balanced Flower Mandala Summer Leaning Journey Rua #2

Yesterday's Summer learning journey was to do a radial balanced flower mandala. I went straight to the step it up and did a stop motion so today I did the normal one because I like doing these tasks. Radial Balance means symmetry in several directions. No matter which way you look at it, it will look the same. Like if you look at an O on every side it will be the same!

I found it tricky to find flowers that were not rotten and dead because at the moment there is a storm where I am in Gisborne! It's Bruising the flowers and killing them.

Next time I would add more flowers to make it more detailed and bigger.

Thank you for reading my blog and here is my photo:

Summer Symmetry!

Today for my summer learning journey I learnt about lines symmetry. There are actually two types of symmetrical lines, Radial or Bilateral. Radial is circular and the same on lots of different angles and bilateral is the same on both sides with one line of symmetry. Did you know, your face is not completely symmetrical? It is close to having bilateral symmetry but it not the same on both sides! Unlike bugs that are commonly the same on both sides! I liked this activity very much because I got to find things around my property and see if they have lines of symmetry. I did this by going around the house and finding shapes like ovals, circles, squares and rectangles. I didn't realise how many there were everywhere!. The hardest part was removing the background from each picture in the slides because there were so many I needed to do! The easiest part was finding the symmetrical lines because I just had to look for places where it was the same on each side. If I had to do it again I would change the background of the slides to a different colour because I was thinking of doing black and white instead. I would also like to make some symmetry art out of shells and seaweed next time! 

Here it is: