Puzzle time!
Puzzle time!
Let's make our own puzzle.
Materials Required
- Pictures that can be cut up: magazines, catalogues, boxes from toy packaging
- Thin card the same size as the picture
- Glue or paste
- Scissors
- Pen or marker
Pictures of the puzzle put together, Textas, pencils or paint
Play experience profile
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Ages:
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Min Playtime15 - 30 Minutes
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Skills
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Energy LevelQuiet Play
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Messiness Rating
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EYLF Outcomes
Play Experience Preparation
Select the picture to be used. The puzzle will be made from the chosen picture. Or encourage your child to draw or paint a picture to be used for the puzzle.Experience Steps
- Glue the picture onto the card and allow to dry.
- Decide on the lines of the puzzle by drawing on the back. This can be as easy or tricky as you like! Support interested children in drawing their own lines or shapes.
- Cut on the lines to make the puzzle pieces. (Model scissor use or support child to use scissors themselves).
- Once you have the pieces cut you have made your own puzzle.
- Mix up the pieces and put the picture back together.
What to talk about, or questions to ask during the experience
- What pictures would you like to use to make your own puzzle? Tip: have several options ready for the child to choose.
- How small are the puzzle pieces going to be?
- Will the puzzle have straight or curved lines?
- Which pieces of the puzzle will you put together first?
- Can you see puzzle pieces that will make the edge of the picture?
Build on this...
- If you have a matching picture you can use this as a base for the puzzle or to copy.
- Make more puzzles and mix up the pieces for an extra challenge!
- Time how long it takes to do the puzzle and try to get faster.
- Have your child create more puzzles from their drawings or paintings.
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This activity is not physically active, don't forget to allow for whole body moving when you have finished! Maybe jump or hop across to where you are going next.
EYLF Outcomes
The Early Years Learning Framework has been designed for use by early childhood educators working in partnership with families, children’s first and most influential educators.
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The Early Years Learning Framework has been designed for use by early childhood educators working in partnership with families, children’s first and most influential educators. View PDF
- Children develop a range of skills and processes such as problem solving, inquiry, experimentation, hypothesising, researching and investigating
- Children resource their own learning through connecting with people, place, technologies and natural and processed materials
- Children develop dispositions for learning such as curiosity, cooperation, confidence, creativity, commitment, enthusiasm, persistence, imagination and reflexivity
EYLF Principle
Principle 3: High expectations and equity. Children progress well when they, their parents and educators hold high expectations for their achievement in learning.
EYLF Practice
Practice: Learning through play. Play can expand children’s thinking and enhance their desire to know and to learn. In these ways play can promote positive dispositions towards learning. Children’s immersion in their play illustrates how play enables them to simply enjoy being.
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