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Easter Egg Felt Board Puzzles

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Felt Board Easter Egg Puzzles

This is an extremely simple felt board game that takes no more than 10 minutes to whip up, start to finish.  All you have to do is cut out several egg shapes (you can always print one off or draw one on paper first to use as a pattern), then chop them up into puzzle-like pieces.  The nice part is that you can make them as simple or as complicated as you like, depending on the age of your child(ren).  And when complete, the set of Easter egg felt board puzzles makes a great sugar-free addition to an Easter basket.

To learn how to make you own {simple and inexpensive} felt board, click here.

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Puzzle Piece Wreath Ornament

12 / 16 / 1212 / 19 / 12

Puzzle Piece Wreath OrnamentNot too long ago, Miss G ‘s advent calendar pouch included jigsaw puzzle pieces and the instructions required to make a snowflake ornament.  Gracen really enjoyed the project and loves her sparkly snowflake hanging on the tree, so she was excited to find more puzzle pieces and a note saying that they could be used to make a wreath ornament today.

IMG 3586This time, we started with an ‘O’ shaped cardboard base.  Gracen glued her puzzle pieces (this time using just regular white glue) onto the cardboard doughnut, overlapping them as she went along.

IMG 3589When the ‘O’ was covered to her liking, we set it aside to dry for a while.

IMG 3592Later in the day, she came back and painted the puzzle piece wreath all green.  She quickly discovered that dabbing the paint on gave much better coverage than brushing it on, so she went with that method.

IMG 3599When she was done painting, we let the wreath dry again.

IMG 3601Next came the really fun part – decorations!  She chose magenta sequins as holly berries, but you could easily use buttons, mini pompoms, foam circles, or dot stickers too.  Just add some dots of glue to the wreath and pop your decorations on.

IMG 3697The last step was adding a little ribbon bow I’d quickly made for her… Regular white glue worked just fine for this job too.

Later on in the evening, once the frontside was dry, I flipped it over and added a ribbon loop using my glue gun (I had it out already – you could just as easily use white glue or craft glue) and the pretty little ornament was ready for hanging.

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Puzzle Piece Snowflake Ornament

12 / 5 / 1212 / 7 / 12

Puzzle Piece Snowflake OrnamentToday, Gracen’s advent calendar pouch included a handful of jigsaw puzzle pieces (from Urban Source) and a handwritten note telling her that they could be used to make a snowflake ornament (I originally found the idea here). She of course was ready to begin the project the very instant she opened it.

IMG 3261While puzzle pieces are the main material, a few other things are needed to make this pretty little ornament… Glue of some sort (craft glue or hot glue would probably work best), some white crafter’s acrylic and a paintbrush, a scrap of cardboard or card stock cut into a circle, a small piece of ribbon or string to hang the ornament from, and some glitter (completely optional, but not in Miss G’s opinion).

IMG 3262To get started, glued 3 puzzle pieces onto our cardboard circle, evenly spaced like this.

IMG 3269During the process, we quickly realized that pieces shaped similarly to this one were going to work the best, so we dug those out and put the others aside.

IMG 3264Next, we added 3 more puzzle pieces.  We tried to place them on top of the original 3 as the instructions say to do, but when it didn’t work out very well for us, we slid the original 3 out closer to the edges, and added the next 3 onto the edges of the cardboard circle too.  It worked out perfectly and was much easier for Gracen to do.

IMG 3271When our snowflake was completely dry about an hour later, Gracen gave it a good once over with white paint.

IMG 3272While the paint was still wet, she did the job I think she looks forward to most when crafting…. She sprinkled on a very generous amount of sparkles over the entire thing.

IMG 3283Later in the evening when her snowflake was dry, I hot glued a little loop of ribbon onto the back, and voila – a new handmade ornament to add to our tree.

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Homemade Household Objects Puzzle

9 / 5 / 121 / 19 / 14

After nap time today, Grae actually came up to me and said, “Do fun ac-ti-vi-tee?”  Funny little duck.  Yes, baby girl, we can always do a fun ac-ti-vi-tee.  In fact, that’s why I’m constantly adding to my Toddler Activities Pinterest board.  For moments just like these.

I love the idea behind this simple sun bleached puzzle, but because the sun wasn’t shining all that much in our neck of the woods today (and because it takes a couple days time to create), we decided to make our own ready-in-an-instant version, sans the sun. ☺

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First up, Gracen helped me collect our materials… A piece of large black card stock, a silver sharpie (a white/yellow/silver/gold crayon or pencil crayon would work too), and an assortment of flatish objects from around the house.

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Next, we traced the objects onto the card stock.  Grae helped with tracing a couple of the objects, but for the most part, she was very content with watching me trace and announcing the names of the objects and the shapes they left on the paper.

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Here’s what our household objects puzzle looked like when we’d traced all of the objects.

Matching

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Miss G got busy matching right away.  I swear she lives for stuff like this.  In between shape and object names, she kept repeating “Fun game. Mama (and) Grae Grae make FUN game”.

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Finished! (I spy toes.)

Pleased

Celebration dance in order.

Here’s a little video of her being silly on her second time through…

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