and we're nailin' it!
This project came about after last week’s winter/Christmas projects post, after making the Santa pieces for the Tic Tac Toe game and really loving how those turned out I decided Santa needed a piece of his own so I decided on a puzzle because I LOVE making those and thought this would be a cute […]
We have been working on numbers and colors with Brooks and I love puzzles! I wanted to make a puzzle that would combine both colors and numbers! He is really interested in squirrels lately and loves collecting acorns too! This puzzle has numbers 1-10. The corresponding acorn has the same number of circles under it […]
For this week’s project, I created a counting puzzle. I included the number and the number word for kids who are learning both! I love the way this puzzle turned out. It is too advanced for Lu for now, and I planned to put it away for when he is older and ready to practice […]
I really enjoy making the build a puzzles and Brooks has been really interested in bees lately so I decided to make this one! This was the second of two designs, the first one had too many pieces and they were smaller than what I imagined when designing it. So back to the drawing board […]
I really enjoy designing and making the build a puzzles! Brooks and I have been planting flowers, vegetables, and fruits for the garden so I wanted to make a build a flower puzzle! Brooks loves smelling flowers when he sees them so I thought this would be great! This can also be used to teach […]
This project came about as I thought about how much I loved to build when I was younger: with blocks, legos, sand, etc. and combine that with the joy I have from memories of doing puzzles with my grandmother! This is a combination of building and putting a puzzle together. I chose to do a […]
This is an idea I’ve been thinking on for a while! I’m so glad I decided to make it a reality! Brooks is LOVING animals lately and has a big interest in ducks especially! With this the animals all stand on their own so he can play with them as pieces of the puzzle or […]
My first kids’ craft was the name puzzle I made for my little guy! This was the first piece I have created on my own from start to finish!!! The puzzles are made on the Inventables X-Carve using the Easel Pro program. They are carved with Birch Wood, painted with Milk Paint, and finished with […]