Kia Ora, This SLJ activity is called Tangram Tangles. Tangram is a puzzle that’s made out of 7 basic shapes, which include two small triangles, a parallelogram, one medium triangle, a square and two large triangles. For this activity we have to use a Tangram builder to build our own image that represents Summer, I chose to make something about sports because I play a lot of sports when it is Summer. I chose a person who is playing basketball because basketball is my favourite sport game, I used the medium triangle as the head, two large triangles as the body, two small triangles as the legs, a parallelogram as the hand and a square as the ball.
I also did something about the colours, I chose light-yellow for the legs which stands for the beach, blue for the body which stands for the sea, yellow for the head which stand for the sun and red for the hand which stand for hot and sport. My favourite part of this was that we get to create anything that’s about summer.
Have you ever used Tangram Tangles before?
Here is a Tangram and my image:
Kia ora Jack,
Manar here from the Summer Learning Journey Team.
I have never used tangram tangles before, but it is awesome to see your creation. I love how you have chosen to organise the shapes in this way so that they show you playing basketball. I also like how you have specifically chosen each part to represent the sun, sea, sand, and even the colour of a basketball being orange just like in real life! Awesome work!
What beaches have you been to over this summer break?
Keep it up!
Manar Mahmoud
Kia ora Jack,
How neat! I really like your ‘Tangram tangles’ picture. I can see a person and ball. I wonder what it would look like if it were a rugby player?
Keep up the creative blog posts. Ka rawe
Whaea Ronnie