Cover the Heart Puzzle
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Today I’m sharing the Cover the Heart Puzzle with you. It’s time to update y’all about the happenings of one of my favorite places in my classroom – the puzzle table.
Looking for more Valentine’s Day activities and puzzles for your classroom? Here’s a few examples of the other Valentine activities I have created.
Even though Valentine’s Day was LAST week, I’ve got a bit of a Valentine/Heart themed puzzle out for my students to tackle this week.
I found the Cover the Heart puzzle in Puzzle Box, Volume 3. The puzzle was created by Tanya Grabarchuk.
The only thing I did was create a version of the puzzle with physical pieces of the puzzle for my students to move around.
This puzzle book (and the entire series for that fact!) are chock-full of puzzles that can easily be adapted for classroom use.
The instructions for the cover the heart puzzle are pretty simple. Arrange the five pieces to entirely cover the heart shape below. You can rotate pieces and flip them over, but you cannot overlap the pieces.
If you’ve already tried the Cover the Duck or Cover the Camel Puzzles with your students, you will be excited to hear that this puzzle uses the EXACT same pieces!
It was nice to be able to just print out another puzzle board and not have to laminate any new puzzle pieces.
Speaking of other puzzles, did you hear that I created a new puzzles page on my blog solely dedicated to puzzles?!?
I did run into one snafu with this puzzle that I was NOT expecting. Some of my students thought that the heart that they were supposed to be covering was the heart in the middle of the shape instead of the overall heart shape.
I have edited the file to color those squares black to avoid future confusion.
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This puzzle uses the same puzzle pieces as the following puzzles:
Special thanks to the Grabarchuk Family for providing me a free copy of Puzzle Box, Volume 3! If you’ve been enjoying using the puzzles from the Grabarchuk Family’s books, I highly recommending supporting them by purchasing a copy of one of their books from Amazon.
Each Puzzle Box book contains 300 awesome puzzles that you can use with your students or for your own puzzle solving enjoyment.
Puzzle Solutions
Puzzle solutions are available on a password-protected solution page. I do not openly post the puzzle answer keys because one of my goals as a resource creator is to craft learning experiences for students that are non-google-able. I want teachers to be able to use these puzzles in their classrooms without the solutions being found easily on the Internet.
Please email me at sarah@mathequalslove.net for the password to the answer key database featuring all of my printable puzzles and math worksheets. I frequently have students emailing me for the answer key, so please specify in your email what school you teach at and what subjects you teach. If you do not provide these details, I will not be able to send you the password.
Not a teacher? Go ahead and send me an email as well. Just let me know what you are using the puzzles for. I am continually in awe of how many people are using these puzzles with scouting groups, with senior adults battling dementia, or as fun activities in their workplace. Just give me enough details so I know you are not a student looking for answers to the puzzle that was assigned as their homework!
do they have to cover the middle piece of the heart?
No. The three middle pieces should be empty.