The link took me to a blog post with great visuals that really helped my students to be able to see what step to take next as I demonstrated up front.
She calls them kaleidoscope names, which is a great name for these awesome works of art:
http://chincolle.blogspot.com/2012/05/kaleidoscope-names-radial-symmetry.html
Students began by folding a 12x12 piece of drawing paper to create 8 same sized triangles. They then drew the letters of their name using bubble letters into one of the triangles, stretching their letters top to bottom.
After their drew their name, they used the transfer process to recreate their name again and again.
One thing I told them to do was to not add the top and bottom of the letters, so that it would look like they were connecting on the fold lines to form shapes.
They used sharpie marker to trace all their pencil lines and then chose marker or colored pencil to add color to their designs, keeping their coloring symmetrical.
They turned out so good! Several teachers told me they loved them and had no idea that they were the students names.
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