Unit F22 ■ Task Cards
Middle Primary
Blake’s Topic Bank
20 Logic, Fun and
Thinking Activities
— Middle
by Peter Clutterbuck
This pack contains:
■ Pattern and shape recognition and making
■ Recall activities
■ Answers
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Colour by design
Colour the design using only four colours. No shape of the same colour is
to touch each other.
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Pattern colour
Colour the pattern any way you wish to create a pleasant design.
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Patterns
Create patterns of your own in the grids below. Think carefully so yours
are different from your classmates. One has been drawn to give you an
idea.
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Shaping up
Match the picture outlines that belong together. Each of those marked 1
to 5 belongs with one of those marked A to E.
B 1
3
A
E
2 C
D 5
4
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Memory test
Look closely at the ten pictures in the box below. Give yourself two
minutes to look, then cover them up and write down all those you can
remember.
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What’s missing
Look carefully at the two pictures. There are six lines missing from the
second picture.
Rule in the missing lines. Colour the cube yellow.
Now colour both pictures.
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Growing larger
Look at the picture in the small grid. Draw it exactly as it is in the larger
grid below. Colour your picture.
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Circle pattern
Using a sharp lead pencil, you can create a very pleasing pattern by
following 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.
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11 1
10 2
9 3
8 4
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Which one is
different
Study each row of pictures. Circle the one that is different from the
others in that row.
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Look and think
Which group, A B or C, includes all the pieces that make the full steam
train?
A
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Jigsaw
Cut out the pictures in the squares below and place them in the grid so
they make a bird. Glue them in place, and colour the picture.
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It will amaze you
Find a path through
the maze. Trace the
path using a lead
pencil then colour the
path in a bright colour.
Use another colour to
fill in the rest of the
maze.
Remember, one way to
do a maze is to colour
all the dead ends first.
Eye tricks
Circle the missing piece from this puzzle.
A B
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C
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Squaring up
If you cut this figure into two parts using one straight line, you can then
arrange the two pieces to make a square.
How would you do it?
Shape words
Use the letters in the shape to discover the hidden message.
s t i n e b h a
c m v r d w o u
1.
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2.
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Shadows
Name the animals whose silhouettes are shown below. To help you their
names are jumbled in the box. Write them correctly under each shadow.
fxo lyfngi libby cootakco arhks playstup
hidecan gonakrao ume mwbtao okala
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Tricky triangles
Colour in the triangles to form a pattern. There is no right or wrong way.
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Pattern making
Complete the patterns by filling the page.
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Spot the error
Can you find the mistake that has been made in each picture. Put a cross
over each one.
A pipe dream
Are you looking
through this pipe or
down it? Colour this
pipe so that it works
one way or the other.
Design your own
optical illusion. Use
different coloured
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pencils to highlight
certain aspects or use
different shades from
light to dark.
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Answers
Shaping up Shape words
A3 A stitch in time saves nine.
B5 A bird in the hand is worth two
C2 in the bush.
D1
Shadows
E4
flying fox
Look and think cockatoo
B emu
platypus
It will amaze you echidna
kangaroo
wombat
shark
bilby
koala
Spot the error
The shadows are in the wrong
Eye tricks direction.
The bicycle has only half a chain.
C
Squaring up
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