Popstick Jigsaw Puzzle for Kids

Bored & tired of office work hours? Don't get enough time with your kids, well In today's Instructables I'm going to show you how you can make an easy and fun puzzle that can boost your kid's creativity and learning skills, did you know that at an early age human brain synaptic neurons grow much faster than other phases in the human birth cycle. moreover, it's a specially designed puzzle for the young ones to develop their thinking skills and to identify their surroundings.

It's an easy fun puzzle that can help children learn more quickly and practically as these stick puzzles need more memory-based power and can help children know more about real-life examples.

• Pop sticks or Ice sticks
• Printout of your theme design
• Cutter
• Masking Tape
• Acrylic Colors ( Optional )
• Glue stick

• Once you are happy with your printout and the selected design cut out the extra edges of the paper.
• Now paint out the back stick frame by selecting two bright colors.

• Now take masking tape and tape the back so that we get a clear square frame of sticks, remember this will be a temporary sticking as we need to break it up in further steps for our puzzle.

• Now stick the design carefully in the front section with the glue stick.

• Now remove the masking tape from the back and flip the sticks carefully in the front direction.
• Now with the help of a sharp cutter cut the sticks into different sections to form small puzzles.

• Once all the parts are separated and cut out properly merge them and try to solve them with your kids, now you can help them a little but it would be good that they only solve the puzzle by themselves.

• For level 2, you can ask them to solve both different merge puzzles at the same time which will help them to improve their distinguishing skills to find different objects and things.