Sailboat Tangrams

Today kicks off a new year of Virtual Book Club for Kids!  During the month of September we are highlighting the book Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak.

and an ocean tumbled by with a private boat for Max and he sailed off through night and day

Don’t ya just love it when an ocean just tumbles by?!

The boat scene in the book, Where The Wild Things Are, happens to be our very favorite part of the book, after the forest grew, the ocean appeared and Max sailed on his sailboat for weeks, and almost over a year. I think we all wish we could sail away on a sailboat for weeks (or maybe that’s just me ;).

As with every book we read I try to incorporate a little learning into the mix – Tangrams are our new fav thing to do!  Tangrams are “a Chinese puzzle consisting of a square cut into five triangles, a square, and a rhomboid, which can be combined so as to form a great variety of other figures”.  There are so many shapes & images you can create – truly the possibilities in where your tangram creativity takes you, are endless!

Today we created the many sailboats of Max, eight Sailboat Tangrams to be exact.  And I’m positive there are a ton more ways to make many more sailboats designs!

SUPPLIES

• multicolored craft foam
• scissors
• printable tangram template

MAKE IT

1. Print out tangram template and cut it out.
2. Line up the cut out paper pieces on the craft foam and cut out craft foam.
3. Create!

 

I bet I know, you and your kiddo(s) can come up with a ton more too!

MORE AWESOME CRAFTS & ACTIVITES INSPIRED BY

WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE BY MAURICE SENDAK

for this month’s for Virtual Book Club for Kids.

Monster Hands Alphabet Match  ::  Toddler Approved

Name Crown Craft  ::  The Pleasantest Thing

Where the Wild Things Are Counting Game  ::  Mom Inspired Life

Wild Things Scented Monster Playdough  ::  Preschool Powol Packets

Where the Wild Things Are Monster Glyphs  ::  Inspiration Laboratories

Where the Wild Things Are Treats  ::  I Can Teach My Child

Where the Wild Things Are Color Fun with Feelings  ::  The Educator’s Spin on It

Where the Wild Things Are Action Word Rompus  :: Growing Book by Book

Make a Wild Thing Shape Craft  ::  Still Playing School

Where the Wild Things Are Mapping Our Backyard Habitats  ::  Rainy Day Mum

Where the Wild Things Are Gross Motor  :: 3 Dinosaurs

Where the Wild Things Are Sand Tray Activity  ::  Study at Home Mama

Sailboat Tangrams  ::  Mama Miss

INSPIRE OTHERS BY SHARING!!

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