TANGRAMS

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVI, Issue 8184, 27 July 1912, Page 12

TANGRAMS

Great fun may be had by making up pictures of all kinds of things from little pieces of black (or other coloured) cardboard, called tangrams. To make the tangrams (says the "Children’s Encyclopedia”) wo take a square piece of cardboard and cut it into seven pieces. From those seven pieces we can make pictures of almost anything—a man, a boat, a bouse, a horse, a oat, and so

TARGRAM FIGURES,

on—but it must be understood that every one of the seven pieces must be used for each, figure, and they must not overlap one another in any way. _ Thousands of pictures can be made in this way. and skill comes with practice, but so many are the ■ variations m arranging the little pieces of cards that even with designs before ns as copies it is not always easy to make the pictures quickly from the tangrams. In preparation for a party we should have a number of sets of tangrams, so that when we sit around the table each player may have a complete set before him. Then the name of some object,' such as a cat or a boat, may be called out, and the players will see which can first form the object out of the little tangrams.