Picture Analogy 2 - Find the Rule and Complete the Pair

💡Tips for Parents

▸ Why It Matters This expanded set adds two new rule types your child hasn't seen before in analogy puzzles — a size-change rule and a shape-change rule — layered on top of the familiar rotation, color, count, and mirror-flip rules from the first worksheet. The real point of these two new types isn't the rules themselves; it's what happens in your child's mind the moment they realize none of the four familiar categories fit. That moment — recognizing "this is something new" and figuring out a brand-new rule on the spot rather than reaching for a memorized one — is a more advanced and more useful skill than knowing four specific rules. It's the same cognitive flexibility needed whenever a real-world problem doesn't match any pattern you've been taught, which happens constantly outside of worksheets. ▸ Getting Started When your child hits the size-change or shape-change puzzles, have them use the exact same strategy as always: describe out loud, in their own words, what changed from A to B before looking at C. ("It got bigger." "It turned into a completely different shape.") The fact that they don't have a name for this rule type yet doesn't matter — the describe-first habit works on any transformation, familiar or brand new, because it forces attention onto the actual change rather than a memorized category. Point out explicitly that this is the same process they used for rotation and color puzzles, just aimed at something new. ▸ If They Get Stuck With six puzzles instead of four, let your child solve the ones that feel familiar first and circle back to the new rule types afterward. Building a little momentum and confidence on easier ground makes an unfamiliar puzzle feel like a fresh challenge rather than a wall. If they're genuinely stuck on what changed between A and B in the new puzzles, encourage them to compare the two shapes piece by piece — same outline but different size? Same shapes but in a different order? — rather than trying to guess the rule's name; naming it can come after they've spotted it. ▸ Praise Points Praise your child specifically for applying a familiar strategy to something unfamiliar: "You'd never seen a 'shape-change' rule before, but you still described the change out loud first, just like always — that's exactly how you figure out something new." Naming that transfer of strategy, not just content, helps your child understand that the describe-first habit is a tool they can carry into any puzzle, subject, or problem that doesn't fit a category they already know.

🎯What This Worksheet Builds

Name the one feature changed in the first pair and make the same change in the second pair. Keep the other features.

👉Next Step

Next, try Picture Analogy 3, which drops the new rule types and instead recombines the original four rules in fresh pairings — a good way to build speed and confidence before facing new content again.