Distance Grandparenting Adventure #2 - The Grandparent Puzzle
Here's an inexpensive activity for your grandchild to enjoy.
- On a piece of cardstock, print a picture of you with your grandchild, either as a baby, or enjoying an event or activity which you had enjoyed together.
- On the back, with a pencil, create puzzle pieces. The number of the pieces depends on the age of the grandchild. Five big pieces are enough for a 3 to 4 year old. A nine year old would enjoy 24 pieces.
- Cut the puzzle up.
- Try to put it back together yourself to determine its difficulty, then adjust one way or another for age.
- Put the pieces in an envelope and send it to your grandchild. They'll love it, and it will be another reminder of you. Guaranteed they will want to make their own puzzle and send it back to you!
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Hey, that's such a great idea that we're waiting for our three-month-old to hurry up and get a bit older so we can start producing our own jigsaw puzzles for him to solve.
Surely, though, a three-year-old can do better than a three- or four- piece puzzle?
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Thanks for your comment. You're right. Some three year olds could handle more pieces. It depends on their experience with puzzles. One thing to keep in mind when choosing this activity is that the sides on this puzzle are all straight making it more difficult. Choosing a picture that has different colors and small items would give it more context clues to help the child match up the pieces. As a parent and teacher, I would want a puzzle to challenge the child and I would work along with him or her the first time, teaching strategies along the way. As a long distance grandma, I would want my present to bring an instant smile to my grandchild's face, so I would probably choose to make the puzzle easy enough for immediate success.
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