Puzzle Progress

My extra effort in working with Jake and Viva doing puzzles has already paid off! They are asking on their own to do 48 piece puzzles. They need a little help at the start sorting the pieces into border and center pieces and some encouragement to get the border put together and then they finish the puzzle off on their own. It's great that they like puzzles since we have enough to stock a day care center.

I purchased a new 100 piece puzzle featuring robots for the boys and all three kidlets helped put it together. Jake started the puzzle. He and I did the border. Then Viva asked to help. I left to do a chore and when I came back Viva had finished the large green robot on her own. Bentley asked to help and Jake wandered off. Bentley is quite fast at piecing puzzles, so the puzzle was quickly finished. Jake wants to do it again without his siblings.


The new puzzle was made by Crocodile Creek. It has extra large pieces which is nice for young children. It was slightly cheaper than a 100 piece Ravensburger puzzle, but not quite as nice because the puzzle pieces are a little harder to snap together, still it was a very nice puzzle. I'd purchase from this company again. Unfortunately they have a very small selection of puzzles unlike Ravensburger which has hundreds of quality puzzles for sale. Ravensburger is a German company that has been making games and jigsaw puzzles for over a hundred years.

Later that day Bentley and Matt started a 300 piece Disney Pinocchio puzzle that they bought in Las Vegas. Kara helped him finish it the next day. Jigsaw puzzles are a great, quiet activity for the entire family.