🍀🌈 St. Patrick's Day Tangrams 🌈🍀

Bring out your green! These sets with 20 different tangram shapes have lots of fun lepreschauns, hats, shoes and more. Some puzzles are easy to solve, others can be quite challenging. Available in: Basic Colors, Green Colors and Outline. Click on the images tot go to the products in my TPT store.

 Set 1: Basic Colors

 

  

 

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Set 2: Green Edition

 

  

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Set 3: Outline

 

  

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Figures included:

1 Leprechaun	8 Shoe	15 Shoe
2 Shamrock	9 Shoe	16 Boot
3 Pot of gold	10 Leprechaun	17 Pipe
4 Leprechaun	11 Fairy	18 Hat
5 Boot	12 Shoe	19 Pipe
6 Shoe	13 Shoe	20 Hat
7 Shoe	14 Shoe	-

Double Tangrams - Pictorial Challenges 2

 

 

This set is now available at:

TPT / Teachers Pay Teachers

Double Tangrams - Pictorial Challenges - Set 2

Tangram Super Challenge: Twice as much challenge with twice as many puzzle pieces.

The classic 7-piece tangram puzzle came from China. Books of tangram picture puzzles were first published at least 200 years ago. About 50 years ago, the first double tangrams appeared in books. Double tangrams are made from 2 tangram sets (14 puzzle pieces).

This digital download contains 48 puzzle cards: 24 different figures in both silhouette and solution. Also included are matching puzzle pieces, an envelope, a chart for your students to keep track of the solved puzzles and a certificate.

Color Palette: 

I have chosen sepia brown as the main base color. This is to give the cards a touch of nostalgia. After all, the game has been around for more than 200 years.

Instead of 7 colors I have used 5 colors for the cards with the solutions. (Congruent shapes have an equal color.) In my experience this helps to visualize and distinguish the polygons within the pictorial figures better.

Important note: 

The puzzle pieces are larger than the shapes on the puzzle cards as the pieces are not made to “fit” the figures on the cards. The intention is to reproduce the figure next to the puzzle card.

Don’t forget to view the preview on TPT for more detailed product information!

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Language:
English

Paper size:
A4 & Letter (4 cards per page)

Theme:
Double tangrams - Pictorial Challenges - Set 2
(2 tangram sets / 14 puzzle pieces)

 

1 Christmas tree	9 Rowboat	17 Horseback rider
2 Insect	10 Castle	18 Horseback rider
3 Bird table	11 Bridge	19 Castle
4 Fish	12 Gate	20 Tower
5 Musical note	13 Dog	21 Pine tree
6 Flower in pot	14 Crocodile	22 House
7 Pine tree	15 Cat mask	23 Mailbox
8 House	16 Owl mask	24 Key

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Tangram Coloring Pages

These tangram coloring pages are a fun way for kids to practice geometry and pre-writing skills. The pages are also designed to inspire kids to be creative.

Geometry:

The tangram is a dissection puzzle consisting of seven flat shapes, called tans, which are put together to form shapes. The objective of the puzzle is to form a specific shape using all seven pieces, which may not overlap. Manipulating the tans stimulates spatial awareness.

                     

Pre-writing:

Being able to control the pencil is an important pre-writing development. The background of these worksheets has been created to develop those fine motor skills required to control the pencil in the path of motions needed for writing.

Art:

All art comes from a point of inspiration. The subject and a few tracing lines on the background are  given to inspire your students. There is plenty of white space for them to personalize the worksheet by adding their own details and/or drawings.

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Differentiation:

Included are 15 puzzles. Each puzzle has 2 options:

Easy - The outlines of each puzzle piece are shown

Hard - The outline of the tangram shape is shown

Puzzle pieces (tans):

The puzzles are suitable for 4-inch tangrams sets (printer settings: 100%). You can use the provided printable puzzle pieces or buy a plastic or wooden tangram set. I have purchased my tangram set on www.enasco.com (4 sets: red, green, yellow, blue for $ 2,20)

Extra activity:

Flip the parallelogram. The puzzles in this pack have been specifically selected for this assignment.

First students solve the puzzle, than they have to flip the parallelogram. Question: How many other tans do you need to slide, flip or turn to solve the puzzle again? A recording sheet is provided.

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15 Tangram Puzzles included (paper size = letter): 
Airplane; Bird feeder; Butterfly; Cat; Christmas tree; Flower; Haunted House; Heart; Mill; Pine tree; Rabbit; Rocket; Sailboat; Spider; Vase

  

You can buy this pack here

Tan-O'-Lantern

For this assignment, the children have to use their imagination. As long as they stick to the modern rules of the Tangram game* and the end result resembles a face, they can’t go wrong.
 
First the children are shown 8 puzzles with Jack-o’-lantern faces (level: very easy). Then they have to cut out the puzzle pieces and try to create their own tangram face.
 
While playing with the puzzle pieces, the children practice their fine motor skills by using scissors and cutting out the shapes at the bottom of the worksheet to glue onto the pumpkin in the middle and spatial awareness plus transformations (translation/slide, reflection/flip, rotation/turn) by creating a new face.
 
This pack is great for centers / stations, early finishers and indoor recess. It can be used on it's own, but it is also suitable as an addition to one of my other Halloween tangram puzzle packs. You can find the ‘math mats & puzzle cards’ , ‘puzzle cards only’ and ‘PowerPoint’ packs in my store.
 
Tip: You can use the creations of the children to decorate real pumpkins.
 
*Use all seven pieces, they must lie flat and may not overlap.
 

Enjoy!

You can buy this set here.
Price $2.50

Tangram Domino

Traditionally, students are given a silhouette or an outline to solve a tangram puzzle. However in this case the traditional tangram game is mixed with the ‘matching element’ of the dominoes game.

Students are given tangram pieces with 7 question and 7 answers. They must match each question with the corresponding answer. After all questions and answers are matched, a tangram duck is formed.

The questions and answers are editable. You can enter any question / answer you like. Simply open the file Microsoft PowerPoint and click on the text boxes. The text boxes are already placed in the right position and direction.

Included are:
- Instructions on how to edit the questions and answers.
- 1 Editable page with 3 strips of puzzle pieces for your students to cut out.
- 1 Editable page with a worksheet for your student to paste the pieces.
- 1 Page with the tangram solution.

You can buy the cut and paste worksheets here.

Price: $2.00 

Editable Tangram Certficate / Diploma / Award

This pack contains 2 different Editable Math Awards (A4)
- Presented to . . . . for making . . tangram puzzles
- Presented to . . . . for solving . . tangram puzzles
Also included is a ‘cut and paste’ worksheet. Students can cut out the tangram pieces and paste their favorite tangram figure in the box.

You can edit the files in:
MS Word 2010
MS PPT 2010
Adobe PDF reader 

How to use:
Open the file you prefer (MS Word 2010, MS PPT 2010 or PDF)
Click in the textfield
Detete the text and type the name and date
Print the file
The student scan paste their favorite tangram figure in the box 

You can buy this certificate here.  

Price: $1.00

Editable Tangram Certificate / Diploma / Award

This pack contains 2 different Editable Math Awards (A4)
(2 different tangram owls)

You can edit the files in:
MS Word 2010
MS PPT 2010
Adobe PDF reader

How to use:
Open the file you prefer (MS Word 2010, MS PPT 2010 or PDF)
Click in the textfield
Detete the text and type the name and date
Print the file

You can buy this certificate here.  

Price: $1.00

Grandfather Tang's Story

 You can buy this pack here.
Price: $ 5.99

Also available in this series are these extension activities:

 

You can buy the Story Sequencing Worksheets here.

Price: $1.50

You can buy the Creative Writing Worksheets here.

Price: $2.50

Valentine's Day - Tangram Patterns

I've made some nice Valentine’s Day themed tangram figures with 'pink hearts puzzle pieces' and 'multicolored puzzle pieces'.


Tangram shapes:
1 L
2 O
3 V
4 E
5 Heart
6 Envelope
7 Present
8 Rose



You can buy this set here. 
Price:$2.50 

The Toy Store - Tangram Patterns

This great tangram set contains 20 different toy themed shapes with toys for girls and boys. Some puzzles are easy to solve, others can be quite challenging. 

1 Girl
2 Teapot
3 Pinwheel
4 Boy
5 Helicopter
6 Doll pram
7 Plush cat
8 Sailboat
9 Plush dog
10 Blocks
11 Car
12 Helicopter
13 Spinning top
14 Plush rabbit
15 Plush horse
16 Cup and saucer
17 Wagon
18 Wagon
19 Wagon
20 Locomotive

You can buy the 'Large Pack here.
Price $4.50

You can buy the 'Puzzle Cards Only (Silhouette and 7 Colors)' here.
Price $2.00

This set would also make a great addition to the 'Christmas - Santa Claus' puzzle patterns.
You can buy the set here.
Price $4.50