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G4G Hands-on Activities

Every Gathering 4 Gardner conference includes an afternoon of hands-on activities, led by volunteer facilitators. Some are unique experiences, hard to reproduce without specific materials or people, but most can be duplicated, and here we are collecting instructions for those. Try these at your school, museum, event, or whatever!

booklet and cover
Crafts & DIY Projects / G4G Hands-on Activities / Make and Take

1000 Limericks Booklet (by Sarah Hart)

How to fit over a thousand poems on a single sheet of paper This was an activity I created for G4G15, but feel free to modify it however you like. …

cardboard sculpture
Crafts & DIY Projects / G4G Hands-on Activities / Group Builds / Uncategorized

Geometric Cardboard Sculpture

Assemble a giant mathematical sculpture from laser-cut cardboard components. Full instructions available online.

woven Klein quartic
Crafts & DIY Projects / G4G Hands-on Activities / Group Builds

A Woven Klein Quartic

We describe a new method of weaving a model of the Klein quartic, a highly symmetric, but abstract genus-3 surface akin to a platonic polyhedron, with negatively-curved geometry. The Klein …

hat tiling
Crafts & DIY Projects / G4G Hands-on Activities / Group Builds

Large Hat Tiling

After decades of research, an aperiodic monotile known as the “hat” was discovered in 2023. Make a large patch of this tiling from pre-cut paper pieces. Learning how to position …

Crafts & DIY Projects / G4G Hands-on Activities / Group Builds

Large Spectre Tiling

Make a large patch of the “spectre” aperiodic tiling from pre-cut paper pieces. Download Activity Instructions PDF Download Animated Instructions (Keynote) Download Animated Instructions (HTML) Download individual figures (PDF): Spectre-2 …

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