Crop circles are gigantic and imaginative art forms created in wheat, rye and barley fields. The artists supposedly are mysterious, strange and eerie alien visitors who arrive in the dark of night but never seem to show themselves to humans.
Crop circles (also called wheat graffiti, and alien art) can be quite impressive. New crop circle sightings can bring crowds of curious spectators, photographers, skeptics, true believers and space alien UFO-ologists to further trample and cause more damage to the farm field's crop.
You don't need to disturb a local farmer's crops in order to create a child-sized cropcircle. Crop circles, mazes and labyrinths can easily be made using chalk sticks on a playground surface, or with sleds and snow shoes in freshly fallen snow or on a broad sandy surface.
Crop "circles" are generally intricate and complex geometric patterns that seem to mysteriously appear in farm fields overnight.
While many people believe crop circles are created by artistic aliens trying to deliver messages to earthlings from space, they are more likely the result of human pranksters.
In 1991, two men from Southampton, England, admitted they had conceived the idea as a prank and demonstrated to the public exactly how they created many crop circles using only planks, rope, hats, and wire as tools.
However, because no one ever seems to witness crop circles during the actual, dark-of-night, construction, true believers think it is only logical to suspect mischevious space aliens. or greys, instead of humans.
You can use the images in Paper Crop Circles for Children to plot your kid-size crop circle project for your lawn or driveway, school playground, in snow or on the beach.
Save a crop circle image to your PC and pre-color with your art program. Print the cropcircle image on window decal material to create an ornament or window display.
Use fun crop circle mandala designs and other coloring book pages for relaxation and entertainment purposes. Great for making refrigerator magnets, window decals and iron-on transfers.
Cropcircle designs can easily be used to help teach geometric symmetry to children K-12 because most Crop Circles seem to be created using combinations of basic mathematical symbols such as abstract representation of pi and ratios of circle.
Click on the shapes below to see examples of geometric shapes to use for crop circle design.
How Many Different Designs Can One Circle Make?
Print your own Alien Gift Wrap for small size presents that can be covered by one sheet of regular sized paper.
