Play With Your Food! Tangram Puzzle Sandwiches
Ready to eat some geometry? Here’s a quick way to turn lunchtime into math play!
Before You Play
Tell your child that he is going to make a tangram puzzle that he can eat! Explain that a tangram is a Chinese puzzle traditionally made from cutting a square into different pieces that can be arranged in different ways to make different designs. And, they’re fun!
Materials
Directions
Give your child the rolling pin to roll out pieces of bread. They should be nice and flat.
Have him stack the bread. Then, help him cut the crusts so there's a 4 by 4 inch square.
Let him spread the jam on one slice and lay the other on top.
Use the knife to cut the bread as pictured.
Now, challenge your child to create pictures using the shapes from his tangram sandwich before he eats them.
Before he eats his geometry, ask your child, "Can you identify the the triangle? Square? Parallelogram?"
Jennifer Cooper is the blogger behind Classic-Play.com, an online resource for creative families. Her favorite pastimes include dancing around her living room, watching “The Pink Panther” with her kids, and daydreaming. Jennifer lives in Baltimore, Maryland, with her husband, Photographer Dave Cooper, and two children.
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