20 Logic, Fun andThinking Activities— Middle

Blake’s Topic Bank This pack contains:■ Pattern and shape recognition and making

■ Recall activities

■ Answers

by Peter Clutterbuck

Unit F22 ■ Task Cards

Middle Primary

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20 logic, fun and thinking activities

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Colour the design using only four colours. No shape of the same colour isto touch each other.

Colour by design

Colour the pattern any way you wish to create a pleasant design.

Pattern colour

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Create patterns of your own in the grids below. Think carefully so yoursare different from your classmates. One has been drawn to give you anidea.

Patterns

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Match the picture outlines that belong together. Each of those marked 1to 5 belongs with one of those marked A to E.

Shaping up

Look closely at the ten pictures in the box below. Give yourself twominutes to look, then cover them up and write down all those you canremember.

Memory test

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5

A

B 1

E

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5C

D

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2

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Look carefully at the two pictures. There are six lines missing from thesecond picture.Rule in the missing lines. Colour the cube yellow.Now colour both pictures.

What’s missing

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Growing larger

Look at the picture in the small grid. Draw it exactly as it is in the largergrid below. Colour your picture.

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Using a sharp lead pencil, you can create a very pleasing pattern byfollowing the steps below:• rule a line from 1 to every other number• repeat this starting at 2, then at 3 and so on.

We have started it for you.

Circle pattern

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Study each row of pictures. Circle the one that is different from theothers in that row.

Which one isdifferent

Which group, A B or C, includes all the pieces that make the full steamtrain?

Look and think

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A

C

B

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Cut out the pictures in the squares below and place them in the grid sothey make a bird. Glue them in place, and colour the picture.

Jigsaw

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Find a path throughthe maze. Trace thepath using a leadpencil then colour thepath in a bright colour.Use another colour tofill in the rest of themaze.Remember, one way todo a maze is to colourall the dead ends first.

It will amaze you

Circle the missing piece from this puzzle.

Eye tricks

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A B

CD

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If you cut this figure into two parts using one straight line, you can thenarrange the two pieces to make a square.How would you do it?

Squaring up

Use the letters in the shape to discover the hidden message.

Shape words

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s t i n e b h a

c m v r d w o u

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2.

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Shadows

Name the animals whose silhouettes are shown below. To help you theirnames are jumbled in the box. Write them correctly under each shadow.

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fxo lyfngi libby cootakco arhks playstup

hidecan gonakrao ume mwbtao okala

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Colour in the triangles to form a pattern. There is no right or wrong way.

Tricky triangles

Complete the patterns by filling the page.

Pattern making

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Can you find the mistake that has been made in each picture. Put a crossover each one.

Spot the error

Are you lookingthrough this pipe ordown it? Colour thispipe so that it worksone way or the other.Design your ownoptical illusion. Usedifferent colouredpencils to highlightcertain aspects or usedifferent shades fromlight to dark.

A pipe dream

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Shaping up

A3B5C2D1E4

Look and think

B

It will amaze you

Eye tricks

C

Squaring up

Shape words

A stitch in time saves nine.A bird in the hand is worth twoin the bush.

Shadows

flying foxcockatooemuplatypusechidnakangaroowombatsharkbilbykoala

Spot the error

The shadows are in the wrongdirection.The bicycle has only half a chain.

Answers

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