# PLIX Play Cafe: Beautiful Symmetry!

**URL:** <https://heyplix.mit.edu/t/plix-play-cafe-beautiful-symmetry/1344>\
**Category:** Beautiful Symmetry 🐝\
**Created:** [June 21, 2023, 5:30pm UTC](https://heyplix.mit.edu/t/plix-play-cafe-beautiful-symmetry/1344 "2023-06-21T17:30:30Z")\
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**Post date:** [June 21, 2023, 5:30pm UTC](https://heyplix.mit.edu/t/plix-play-cafe-beautiful-symmetry/1344/2 "2023-06-21T17:30:39Z")

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For today’s Play Cafe on Beautiful Symmetry, these are some of our playful activities:

- Having tea and snacks together (pop rocks!)
- **Zoom Peer Play:**
  - Building patterns with [these virtual backgrounds](https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/13gM8N3Mtx0puXOvVTHLD866KxZE4FUH3?usp=sharing)!

- **Doodling:**
  - “Draw what you see!”

- **PLIX Activity:**
  - [Beautiful Symmetry Pattern Manipulatives](https://heyplix.mit.edu/t/2023-april-workshop-remixing-for-sustainability/1324/2)

- **Wonder:**
  - What is “play” to you? Do you play at work? Do you play in your everyday life?

- **Resource:**
  - What does playful learning look like and feel like? Check out Harvard Graduate School of Education, [Project Zero’s Pedagogy of Play](https://pz.harvard.edu/projects/pedagogy-of-play)

Here are some ways our pen pals may share on this thread:

- **Pictures of your doodles**  
Bonus: we may turn some of these into stickers to share out at the end of the Play Cafe!
- **Pictures of your version of the activity**  
During or after the Play Cafe!
- **Pondered Wonderings**  
To our question above
- **Playfulness**  
Emojis, ideas, stray thoughts, and more ❤

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