Veggie Tales Jigsaw Puzzle
Either you love them or leave them. Some people can spend all their spare time working any number of simple jigsaw puzzles to complex 3D jigsaw puzzles. Which category do you fall in?
Children, on the other hand, most always enjoy putting the colorful pieces together. And, if your children have an interest in a certain category such as flowers, trucks, dolls, cowboys, pirates, and safari animals you will find it easy to search online and find kids jigsaw puzzles that will keep your kids busy for hours of quiet fun.
There was a “golden age” of jigsaw puzzles. This was around 1920 – 1930’s when the great depression was in progress. Putting together jigsaw puzzles, they say, helped to relieve stress. Puzzles during this era were inexpensive and with the ability to be reused over and over helped make them popular in the depression era.
Educational Children’s Toys: Privileged children, back in 1066, would be found playing with pictures of British kings and queens made into jigsaw puzzles. This was one way they were taught history. This would be a great idea to bring back; find pictures of our presidents and other famous people and paste them onto cardboard. Draw lines with a black marker and cut out the pieces. Presto, you have made a new puzzle for your kids and an educational toy as well.
Learning geography can be made fun and interesting (and easier to learn) if you purchase a large map of the world, or the USA, for example. Cut it up into a puzzle. Homeschoolers will love this project, you can teach your kids where grandma lives, or an uncle or aunt. When they see something in the news about an event they can go get their puzzle map and find the location.
When a child is not feeling well, or perhaps the weather is too hot, too cold, or too wet outside an great indoor activity would be to bring out the jigsaw puzzles. Older kids can help the toddlers while you fix lunch. Working puzzles, whether jigsaw or 3d is always a calm, quite, relaxing activity.
Often, in break rooms, day care centers (for children and adults) there are several tables set up with an array of jigsaw puzzles being worked on. Even in Alzheimer’s centers, senior citizen centers and play rooms in homes children and adults alike are likely to be spending time either alone or in a group trying to piece together a pretty picture.
Group activities putting together puzzles provide needed socialization for adults and children alike. For children puzzle play is a great way for them to develop basic hand-eye coordination skills. For young toddlers you will want to provide many puzzles with large colorful pieces so they can easily grip the pieces and gain self confidence as they successfully assemble each puzzle.
Need an idea for a birthday party? How about utilizing children’s jigsaw puzzles? After you have selected your theme you might consider having a group game of completing a large jigsaw puzzle as your main party activity. You could begin by having the children make the jigsaw puzzle as suggested above. There will be plenty of great photo opportunities during this party!
There are jigsaw and 3d wooden puzzles available online to spark the interest of all ages of children and adults. There is a very unique set of Safari blocks that could be considered a 3d wood puzzle – take a look at this Stacking Safari 3d wooden Puzzle.
Another popular theme you might like to consider (and don’t see in stores all the time) is the Veggie Tales children’s jigsaw puzzles. Such puzzles include these 100 piece puzzles for kids age 5 and up:
Veggie Tales Two Sided Pirates Jigsaw Puzzle
Veggie Tales Campfire Sing Along
Veggie Tales Caribbean Bob
Veggie Tales Sweetpea Beauty (pictured above)
Veggie Tales Larry Boy and Fib From Outer Space.
The below link might also help give you other good activity ideas.
Play Jigsaw Safari – Piece Together 50 Puzzles!
Go on a safari of jigsaw fun with amazing pictures of exotic animals & amazing African scenery. A delightful challenge for puzzle lovers, each of the 50 vibrant images features elephants, lions, bison, penguins, and more in their natural habitats.
Need even more puzzles to play. You can do these online: http://origin.www.shockwave.com/gamelanding/bonusjigsaws.jsp
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