Winter in is full vacillation and that intend a fate of time spent indoors for most of us . As a busy mom of four minuscule ones , I am always trying to think of new idea to keep my kids meddling during these long and sour months when there ’s no garden dirt to play in or minnows to catch . Games and puzzler are a lot of fun and a perfect body process to keep minuscule hired hand and judgement busy . If you ’re like me though you fear buying things like this because you know that most of the piece end up missing or destroyed ; kids sure can be approximate on things unintentionally . So instead of buy thing I make out wo n’t last long , I make them ! This is a simple tutorial on how to make your own puzzle from magazine pictures . The beauty in this puzzle labor is that you have so little time and cloth place in it that you wo n’t mind let the kids act their hearts out , and when things get jaw on , you wo n’t flinch . When piece go missing , merely make a new mystifier . Making the puzzle is almost as much sport as arrange it together .
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honest-to-god magazines ( Calendars and printed household pictures work great , too.)cardstockgluescissorsMake Your PuzzlesLet your kids rummage through your old magazine and pick out a few favorite pictures . Decadent sweet , beast and tractor pictures are always a enceinte hit at our sign .
reduce the moving-picture show from the magazine publisher and then snip around the edges . Glue the magazine picture to some cardstock .
On the back of the cardstock , draw how the pieces will be issue out . Big and chunky pieces make for well for very young tyke and more complex designs will gainsay old I . you may let the kids cut out the puzzles pieces if they are capable .
Flip the pieces back over so that the picture is showing and revel place your puzzle back together .
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