Chinese Tangram Puzzle

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Materials

Music and Movement: Challenge the children to make different sounds

with their kazoos. Who can kazoo the softest or loudest? Who can kazoo

high? Low? Can everyone kazoo fast? Or slow? Move your bodies to follow

the music!

Instructions

* January 29th is National Puzzle Day.
1. Before the activity, draw a tangram pattern with
seven shapes (five triangles,
one square, and one
rhomboid) on a piece
of paper. Make a copy
for each child.
2. Give each child a square
piece of poster board and
a tangram pattern.
3. Encourage the children to
color each shape with a
different color.
4. Ask them to glue the tangram
pattern to the poster board
and cut out each shape.
5. Have the children put the
tangram puzzle together.

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