We have been staying home more often these days and no matter how tough or dismal the situation seems, we still try our best to remain calm and hopeful that the storm will blow over soon.
Besides playing pretend, watching movies, reading and doing holiday homework, this is one of their favourite activities this week - Tangram!
I love puzzles since I was a kid and it's nice to see how this love has passed on to this trio. We spent hours and days going through the puzzles and slowly solving them one by one. @the.smallt has 5 different puzzles of varying levels of difficulty which are suitable not just for kids, but adults too! My best friend came over to my place yesterday and both of enjoyed challenging ourselves too. It will be so fun to have a friendly puzzle solving competition too, wouldn't it?
The goal is simple - put ALL the wooden pieces together to create the different shapes printed in the box. It might sound easy but I assure you it's definitely harder than it sounds. In fact, I racked my brains pretty hard over a couple of them and almost wanted to give up. The fascinating thing is how you can solve it after taking a break and looking at things from a different perspective - which also means you might easily forget how you managed to solve some of them previously.
That is also why I love bringing our sets out to keep the kids occupied. Who needs screens when you have puzzles? While the younger two are still figuring out the easy puzzle sets, the firstborn and I are working as a team and moving on to the most difficult ones already. I find it a good way for me to bond with them while we work on our creativity, imagination and logic thinking skills.
For those who are keen to try out these fun-filled and entertaining tangram puzzles, do check out http://www.thesmallt.com/. Quote "SUMMER20" when you purchase before 15 April 2020 to enjoy a 20% discount.
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