Tangram

What do you need:

• Cardboard
• Knife or scissors
• Pencil
• Ruler

Tangram is a puzzle game. It is easy to create and there are a lot of figures you can lay. The first problem is to make a square from the seven pieces. You will have this example immediately as we will be creating the puzzle from a square piece of cardboard. Besides that you lay a variety of other figures. There is only one game rule and that is that you are allowed to use each piece only once. Not more, not less.

Take a square piece of cardboard measuring 16 x 16 centimeters. Divide the cardboard in 16 pieces as is shown on the figure. Cut out the 7 parts. Actually you are now ready but you can finish the parts by painting them.

Below you can find some other shapes you can lay down with the tangram pieces.

Hint

• There are a lot more figures to make. Can you invent some yourself?