I really enjoyed this activity. I once took a drafting course, and it reminded me of the joy I had participating in that course. It's this really nice middle-ground between art and problem-solving where you get to create your own artistic interpretation of the leaf, while still problem-solving how you are going to do so using only the compass and straight edge.
I also quite like using these simple analog tools to explore geometry since you sometimes end up stumbling upon "proofs" of some geometry properties by exporing, say, why the methods of drawing a perpendicular or bisecting an angle actually work.
Very cool activity, and it also correlates nicely with the mindfulness exercise of drawing or sit-spots since you have to study the leaf so carefully. I dig it!
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