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Activity Century #Creativity, Art Integration
Skills

Tangram

A tangram is a Chinese puzzle. It has seven pieces. 4
You can see the tangram shown here. 3 6
A tangram is a puzzle that starts as a single square. 7 5 2
• Take a piece of thick card paper and cut out a square of size 8 cm 1
by 8 cm from it.
• Draw three horizontal lines and three vertical lines on it at equal 3 4
gaps so that 16 small squares are formed inside the big square. 6
Use pencils and a scale for drawing the squares. 7 5 2
• Draw one complete diagonal and one incomplete diagonal of the 1
big square as shown here. Then draw one square and one triangle
using these diagonals (shown by the red colour). Extend one side
of the square as shown here. 3 6 4

• Cut the big square into 7 pieces (see below): Two large triangles; 5 2
one medium triangle; two small triangles; one square and one 7
parallelogram. You can use different colours for each piece. 1

1 2 3 4 5 6 7
• Arrange these pieces of the tangram
to form different shapes.

• You can use these seven pieces to
make thousands of different shapes,
like animals, people, or objects. The
goal is to use all seven pieces without
overlapping them.
Cat Swan

Dog Horse Rabbit

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