Grade Level Tangram Puzzles for First Week of School

Celebrate the first week of school with these grade level tangram puzzles for kindergarten through ninth grade.

I think these would make such a fun problem-solving activity for the first day of school or anytime during the first week of school when you are working on class norms and the importance of problem-solving and persistence.

Looking for more first day of school activities and puzzles for your classroom? I have a giant blog post dedicated to 40+ activities for the first week of school.

Here’s a few examples of some of these engaging activities for the beginning of the school year.

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Tangram Puzzle Instructions

Choose the appropriate tangram puzzle for your students’ grade level. I have created tangram puzzles for kindergarten through ninth grade.

Use a standard set of 7 tangram pieces to form the outlined shape. The tangram pieces may be flipped over, but they may not overlap.

Supplies

For these grade level tangram puzzles, you will need a set of plastic tangram pieces. If you do not have a set or if your set is the wrong size, I have also provided a set of printable pieces.

These tangram templates (if printed at 100% actual size) are specially designed for plastic tangram pieces which form a four inch square. The large triangle piece should measure 4 inches on its longest side.

Printing Instructions

The printable tangram pieces are designed to print two sets of pieces to one letter-sized sheet of paper.

When you print the tangram template for your grade level, you can also print the first page with the tangram square templates and use that to place your plastic tangram pieces on to see if they are the correct size.

Friendly Reminder: Make sure you are printing at 100% size. If your computer auto-selects “Fit to Page,” the templates will not be properly sized for the plastic pieces. You can check that it has printed at “Actual Size” by measuring the tangram square with a ruler to see if it has a side length of 4 inches.

If you do choose to scale the print job, the printable pieces should scale in accordance with the templates.

Adapting the Activity for Students

If you are working with younger students or if you are focusing on fine motor skills instead of problem solving skills, you might think about printing the solutions page for students instead of the puzzle page.

This will give students outlined sections to place each tangram inside.

My 2.5 year old was able to put together the Welcome to Kindergarten puzzle that I printed off to make sure everything was sized correctly.

Enter the password on the answer key page in order to download the solutions version.