Chinese New Year Zodiac Tangram Animals

Chinese New Year festival celebrates the beginning of a new year on the traditional Chinese calendar. The festival is usually referred to as the Spring Festival in modern China.

In preparation for the celebrations here is a video showing how to make all of the Chinese Zodiac Animals. The animals in the Chinese Zodiac are:
🐀 Rat
🐂 Ox
🐅 Tiger
🐇 Rabbit
🐉 Dragon
🐍 Snake
🐎 Horse
🐑 Sheep
🐒 Monkey
🐓 Rooster
🐕 Dog
🐖 Pig

If you would like to play along with the video you can download a Pure Star Kids Tangram template here

A tangram is a puzzle consisting of 7 flat shapes which can be put together to form pictures, letters or numbers. The objective of the puzzle is to form a specific shape using all seven pieces. It is reputed to have been invented in China, the original name in Chinese translates literally as “seven boards of skill’

There are over 6500 shapes and pictures that can be created using the tangram puzzle. The ones in this video are the letters of the alphabet.

Designed to teach children letter recognition and introduce them to the tangram puzzle, a fun way to learn. I hope you enjoy watching this video with your little ones 😊

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The tangram puzzle has seven pieces:
2 large triangles
1 medium triangle
1 square
2 small triangles
1 parallelogram