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Once upon a time there was a little boy called Morris.He went to school, and he was very good at all his lessons - except drawing.You should have seen the pictures he drew!
"Well, really, Morris, I don't know if this drawing is meant to be a dustbin, a house, an elephant, or a banana!" his teacher said one day. "And is this the best pattern you can make for me? Well, I really do think you might have done better than this!"
The children often drew patterns in the drawing-lesson, and coloured the patterns they made. Sometimes they were quite simple ones like this:
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or prettier ones like this:
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They could draw what patterns they liked, and they could use the letters of the alphabet or figures or anything they pleased, so long as they made a really pretty pattern. It was fun to chalk the patterns.
Poor Morris could never think of a good pattern at all. Once he thought it would be a good thing to do a pattern of aeroplanes, but when he drew them they looked rather like birds with no head and two tails - so it wasn't such a good pattern after all!
One day the teacher gave her children some homework to do over the weekend.
"I want you to think of a really lovely pattern," she said - "the sort of pattern that would look nice on our wallpaper. Now do think of an unusual and beautiful one, draw it out on a sheet of paper and then colour it."
