These accessible activities use the Celtic Knot pattern as a symbol of interconnection; with the first game inviting the participants to combine the puzzle pieces into nine different designs. Four large Knot pattern boards are then assembled and the image cards are used in a series of combination games.

Discovery explorations within this box start by recognising the interrelationships that are all around us within the natural worlds. The activities then consider the combinations within each person, such as our senses and emotions, our connected inner lives and person-to-person interactions. They then present several opportunities for designing original combination patterns, individual and group research, and stimulating creative storytelling.

Colours are combined to paint a picture, words for a story and notes for a song but there are many other combinations at play within our creative expressions and the interconnections observed throughout organic life.

With interrelationships key to all that we see and do these fun interactive games encourage the participants to interact with each other, whilst considering the reasoning within the interrelationships that they discover.

Contents

1. 2 large circular cards documenting:
• Welcome to Open to Discover
• Box Three ‘Combinations’ overview
• Contents and display instructions for the activities

2. Introduction
• 2 oval cards

3. Activity One: Knot Pattern Puzzle
• 2 oval instruction cards
• 9 sets of 4 triangular shapes that assemble into either a colour pattern or a knot pattern (36 pieces)

4. Activity Two: ‘Interconnections’ Part One ‘Placing with Reason’
• 4 game boards that are assembled with 4 sections
• 5 oval instruction cards
• 5 dark orange key cards
• 25 light orange image cards

5. Activity Two: ‘Interconnections’ Part Two ‘The Fullness of Each Person’
• 4 oval instruction cards
• 1 large and 4 small cream key cards
• 40 yellow image cards

6. Activity Two: ‘Interconnections’ Part Three ‘Caring and Sharing’
• 2 oval instruction cards

7. Activity Two: ‘Interconnections’ Part Four ‘Creating’
• 2 oval instruction cards

8. Decorated box

Only the items that are used in the activities are laminated, these being: the Knot puzzle pieces, the game boards, the sets of key cards and image cards.

Original designs by Karen Heney

The sets are hand made with some variations in the colours