The Little black tangrams
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Part of The Young Citizen: The Magazine for Young People
- Title
- The Little black tangrams
- Language
- English
- Year
- 1941
- Subject
- Tangrams.
- Rights
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- Abstract
- Tangrams are little black cards of various shapes that are supposed to have been first designed in China many centuries ago.
- Fulltext
- I Il THE YOUNG CITIZEN MARCH, 1941 WORK AND PLAY SECTION THE LITTLE BLACK TANGRAMS TANGRAMS are little black cards of various shapes that are supposed to have been first designed in China many centuries ago. Any boy or gir 1 can make a set of tangrams by taking a square of black card and cutting it into seven pieces as shown in the picture on this ·page. A boy or gir 1 can make the necessary black cardboard by pasting over ordinary white card a piece of black paper. To cut the tangrams . - take a small piece of cardboard three inches square. Cut the · card from one corner to the op- · posite corner, from C to B. (See the small illustration.) Then· find the middle of C B which have seven pieces of card of various sizes. They should all be black· on both sides. By putting these seven pieces of card .toget.her, you can make many things with the little black tangrams. It must be understood that in each picture every one of the seven pieces of card has to be used, and the whole of each piece of card must be completely seen-that is, you can not put one piece partly over another. is E. Cut from E to D. The H()w to rut thl'm It is a fact that pictures of thousands of objects can be made. with these little seven pieces of card. In the picture of children at play shown on this page each individual in the group is made up from .one set of tangrams. Five sets of tanremaining pieces are easily cut to the right sizes, for the various points to and from which we cut are all the middle points of lines. Thus G is the middle point of A B. · The point F is the middle of A C. The point J is the middle of F G. The point K is the middle of C E. The point H is the middle of EB. Having cut the piece of square black card as shown in the small picture, you grams are required to make everything as shown in the picture. · We can make men, animals, birds, lanterns, faces, geometrical' figures, and· many other things from these tangrams. It is not always easy, even with a finished tangram picture before you. as a pattern to put the tangrams together properly to produce the picture. But practice will help you to make anything desired.