The Egg Of Columbus Puzzle

For the quaternary degree shape my hubby too I learn at church building on Midweek nights, nosotros were tasked alongside coming upward alongside an Easter arts and crafts or activity. I'm non the type to interruption out pigment or glitter inwards these situations because I loathe the clean-up too chaos of the entire experience.

Earlier this year, I was browsing through Puzzles.com too ran across a new-to-me tangram means puzzle called the "Egg of Columbus." I decided this would live on perfect to elbow grease out alongside our grouping of quaternary graders!

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I used the snipping tool to pick out handgrip of the egg picture too printed them 2 to a canvass on dissimilar colors of paper.


Next, I spent or too thus character fourth dimension alongside the laminator. I figured that quaternary graders mightiness live on a fleck petroleum on these pieces. Plus, I wanted them to live on able to receive got their puzzles habitation alongside them to keep.


My adjacent pace of grooming involved making a "poof book" for the students to get together that included dissimilar challenges that they could consummate alongside their egg pieces. The encompass of the poof mass included the solution to the egg puzzle.


This mass is assembled from but a unmarried canvass of alphabetic character sized paper. If you're non certain how to fold/assemble a poof book, banking firm fit out this spider web log post for step-by-step directions. 





Our students' rootage chore was to cutting out their Egg of Columbus pieces.

Next, nosotros challenged them to reassemble the pieces into the egg shape. This turned out to live on much harder for them than I anticipated. Numerous students made comments along the lines of "This is impossible!" I reminded them that the pieces had been inwards the shape of an egg earlier they cutting them out!



Next, I blew their minds alongside the assembly of the poof book. After assembling their mass of challenges, each educatee picked a motion painting of their choosing to elbow grease too brand alongside their pieces.




I receive got uploaded the files I made for the puzzle too poof mass using the images from ThinkFun too Puzzles.com here.

Want a sturdier version of this puzzle for your puzzle table? There are several options worth looking into on Amazon.

This wooden version (affiliate link) is super affordable too comes alongside costless shipping, but I'm a fleck worried most the fact that in that place aren't whatever reviews.

ThinkFun produces a commercial version of this puzzle known every bit Scrambled Egg (affiliate link).



Monkey Pod Games (affiliate link) produces a real prissy version, but it's a picayune to a greater extent than expensive than I would desire to pass for my classroom.


If yous prefer to consume your puzzle afterwards yous receive got solved it, yous mightiness live on interested inwards an Egg of Columbus cookie cutter (affiliate link)!



If yous receive got access to a 3D printer, yous tin move 3D impress your puzzle pieces!

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