I wanted to make my oldest daughter some Popsicle stick puzzles that she would enjoy playing with, so I found some images online of some of her favorite things and printed them out. Here is what you need to turn your little ones favorite images into puzzles, too!
What You Need:
Print-outs of pictures
Popsicle sticks (larger ones work best)
A Laminator (although not necessary, still a good idea)
Lamination sheets
Glue
Blade Cutter and/or Scissors
I started off buy cutting out the images I printed up (using 4x6 pic size on my printer) and then cutting them into strips about the same width as the Popsicle sticks.
I laid them in the lamination sheets, making sure the pieces were not touching each other.
I try to fit as many as I can on each sheet, I hate wasting space. I'm weird like that :P
Then I ran the sheets through the laminator.
You can skip laminating the images if you don't have a laminator and that is fine. I just wanted them to be more durable.
After they were laminated, I cut each piece out using my blade cutter. You can use scissors too, but I get a much cleaner cut with this nifty little device!
Use a little (the picture above has way too much!) glue to adhere the strips to the sticks.
Let 'em dry and there you have it!
I was very happy with the way these turned out! But there is still another way you can use them!
If you get some magnetic adhesive sheets, you can add some strips of that to the back of the Popsicle sticks and make them Magnetic Puzzles!
Mario is now on my fridge! :D
Enjoy! And happy Playing!
