Hi, teacher! Tony here.
Welcome to Shapegrams Junior, where kids build pictures one shape at a time!
Designed for ages 5-10, these puzzles help young learners practice dragging, rotating, resizing, and coloring shapes while learning how shapes can be combined to create something new.
Free to use. No account, no sign-up, nothing to install.
The big idea
This is where fine-motor skills meet big-picture thinking. Every Shapegram begins as a finished picture, then breaks apart into the shapes that make it, and students drag, turn, stretch, stack, and color each one until it clicks back together. Every move is hands-on practice and a little puzzle to solve.
The teacher picks the pictures and puzzle modes to build a playlist.
Students open the playlist and begin moving shapes into place.
Young learners complete each puzzle in the playlist, and confetti flies.
Six ways to play
Every puzzle plays in all six modes. Start gentle with Snappy, where shapes click right into place, and work all the way up to Tricky, where only a faint dashed outline shows the way. You decide how far your students go.
Want to give it a try?
Open an Example PlaylistPlaylists
Choose the puzzles you want, set the modes for each, and Shapegrams Junior bundles them into a single student link with a QR. No student logins, no app to install, and it works on any device.
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Visit Learning in HandBrowse and try the puzzles, tap a tag to filter, then make a playlist to send to students.
Links you've made on this device. Editing updates the same link.
Show a message to teachers under the title strip on the Puzzle Library and My Playlists pages.
Pick a way to play
Deleted puzzles wait here. Restore one to put it back in your library, or delete it forever to free its space.
Upload an SVG (export from Google Drawings: File → Download → SVG). Group shapes that should move together; each top-level shape or group becomes one puzzle piece.
Drop an SVG here or
Pieces with the same colored letter are one shape group, so kids can swap them for each other. Tap pieces and use Same shape or Make unique to change the groups. (In Tricky any size/color in a group swaps; Colory needs the same size; Snappy/Turny need the same size and color.)
Tony tells one of these when a playlist with this puzzle is finished. Add up to 10.
Just the starting point. Students can turn sound on or off any time while they play.
Pick a way to play it again
Shapegrams Junior is a library of picture puzzles. Kids rebuild a picture by dragging its shapes onto a canvas. You pick the puzzles, choose the ways to play, and send students one link. No account or sign-up for anyone.
Every puzzle can be played in any of these ways. You choose which ones to include when you build a playlist. They run easiest to hardest.
A playlist is an ordered set of puzzles, each with the ways to play you picked. Students open one link and play them in order.
Students open the link or scan the QR. There is nothing to sign into.
Stuck? There is a Hint button. If a student cannot tell what to do, they tap Hint. It highlights one shape and points to the single thing to change about it next, whether that is moving it into place, turning it upright, resizing it, stacking it in front or behind, or coloring it. Each tap shows just one step, so a hint nudges a child along without giving the whole puzzle away. They tap Hint again to see the next step.
Progress is saved on the student's device, so they can close the tab and pick up where they left off. If you edit the playlist, progress resets so everyone plays the new version.
Sound is real feedback in Shapegrams Junior, not just decoration. Here is how it is used and how to control it.
Questions, ideas, or a puzzle you would love to see? Tony Vincent would be glad to hear from you.
tony@shapegrams.com