You have been given three shapes made out of sponge: a sphere, a cylinder and a cone. Your challenge is to find out how to cut them to make different shapes for printing.
If you split the square into these two pieces, it is possible to fit the pieces together again to make a new shape. How many new shapes can you make?
A description of how to make the five Platonic solids out of paper.
This activity has been particularly created for the most able. (The pupils that you come across in many classrooms just once every few years.)
It may be used to follow on from Cubes Here and There.