Geometric Based Traditional and Whimsical Color Book Paper Tangram Chinese Puzzle Patterns for Young Children

Printable Paper Tangram Chinese Puzzles and Patterns for Young Children

This web site contains both traditional math-based Tangram Puzzles and creative whimsical, printable puzzle images for children of all ages.

Purpose of this site is to provide a brief introduction into Tangrams, those wonderful Chinese puzzles, which can provide seemingly endless possibilities in creativity and design.

Fun geometrically based Paper Tangram Chinese Puzzles can help introduce math concepts to very young children in an entertaining manner.

Not only are tangram puzzles fun to create and solve, they serve to help children learn geometry and improve spatial ability and spatial-temporal reasoning skills.

Parents and teachers may use these images for creating lesson plans and other educational purposes.

Paper tangram Chinese puzzles and patterns are provided for fun projects to visiting youngsters and busy teachers, parents and caregivers.

Paper Tangrams for Children Contains a Collection of Tangram Chinese Puzzle Patterns Based Upon Commonly Recognized Geometric Shapes:

• Blank Formats
• Circle
• Egg and Oval Shapes
• Heart
• Heptagon
• Hexagon
• Parallelogram
• Pentagon
• Triangles
• Square
• Octagon
• Rhombus
• Rectangle
• Trapezoid
• Solutions

Information About the Tangram Puzzle, History, Rules and Resources

• Definition and History of Tangram Chinese Puzzles
• Rules of the Game
• Table of Contents
• Non-Traditional
• Traditional
• References and Resources

The images in Paper Tangram Chinese Puzzle patterns may also be used for non-commercial, non-profit crochet, embroidery, latch-hook rugs, wood work, decorations, ornaments, and other educational or personal art projects.