About a year ago I was flipping through
a book of tangram figures that I had
once used for one of my classes. My two year
old daughter immediately
showed great interest in the pictures of the book. To my surprise she recognized many silhouettes. She also seemed to be
fascinated about the geometric puzzle pieces. Inspired by her interest I made a
few worksheets for her. They were
literally received with cheers,
so I made some more.
While I was making the worksheets I realized that there were only two types of puzzles:
Easy - with
solutions showing the outline of all pieces.
Hard - with black
silhouettes or outlines of the whole picture.
The
‘solutions’ are great for teaching shapes recognition and the silhouettes will
help children build their critical reasoning skill. Most
of the silhouettes however can be quite
difficult to solve for young children and beginners. Therefore I have created multicolored tangrams. They often give away a bit more of the solution than the
black silhouettes and are easier to solve without giving away the whole
solution.
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| Silhouette - Outline - Solution - Mosaic |
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| Multicolored T-Shirts |
Meanwhile, the collection has grown to more than 400 colorful tangram figures. They have become so nice that it is a shame to keep them only for ourselves. Occasionally I make a set of thematic tangram worksheets, puzzle cards and clipart’s with 20 different figures.
For some occasions, like Halloween or teaching the alphabet, I make Special Editions. The tangram is also ideally suited to explain geometric concepts like telling the difference between polygons and non-polygons or congruent and similar.
All tangram worksheets are for sale at my TPT-store:
If you have any questions or suggestions, please feel free to contact me at:
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| My daughter and I are admiring a sculpture at a local fair. |
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