A few days ago our son told us about trapezoids - how one is created by cutting off a piece from a trianlge... I thought lets do some activities on shapes then. While browsing for some lessons or worksheets a came across the pentomino puzzle. I liked those as a girl (and turns out I still do)and thought lets try.
We drew them on paper ourselves, so there would be practice for coloring, cutting and counting as well. Turned out even our almost 2 year old wanted to do a puzzle! (of course he can't find a solution yet, but coloring those puzzle pieces and playing around with them seemed to make him happy ;-))
It's fun! There are so many solutions - it's always worth trying again...
Here I found a nice free pentominoe printout:
http://www.scholastic.com/titles/chasingvermeer/pentominoes.pdf
If your child likes to play online:
http://www.scholastic.com/blueballiett/games/pentominoes_game.htm
And here is some history and more information for older children & adults:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentomino
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