Jigsaw Puzzles, Anyone?

[DVCLiz]

I'm cleaning out several years' worth of accumulated toys, games and puzzles from the attic and my daughters' closets, etc. So I decided I would work all the puzzles to make sure we had all the pieces, then I'd let the girls decide which ones they want to keep and which ones we can give away. For a while, we were very much into jigsaw puzzles, and we have them from the big 24 piece children's ones all the way up to the 1000 piece ones.

I'm working a 500 piece one right now, although I probably should have waited until February, because it's all those little conversation hearts you get on Valentine's Day.

But I'd forgotten how much I used to enjoy putting them together!!! I'm pretty slow, but it's fun and relaxing.

Anyone else like to do puzzles? What are some of your favorites???

 

[lyzziesmom]

My DD8 recently went through a puzzle phase when she received a Jack Sparrow puzzle for her birthday... then she promptly lost a piece and now thinks puzzles are stupid.

 

[Pixiedust34]

Check out this site:

http://www.jigzone.com/

 

[Cantw8]

I love puzzles I like the ones that have a "mystical" look. Dragons, things like that. I also like wildlife ones

 

[Linnie The Pooh]

I LOVE jigsaw puzzles and would do them with my dad a lot. Then I had little kids and couldn't do them-they'd tear them apart. I bought my kids one a few years ago, though, as they were reaching that age to enjoy them and I was reminded how much fun they are! I totally got back into them then and do them a lot. DD was a little young, but she'd try to put the pieces together and say, "Peesey's go here?? Peesey's go here?? " It was soooo cute.

When my grandma died this summer, she had tons of puzzles in her attic. I kept some to work myself, but donated the rest to the library. I couldn't do that many. DH hates them. He's color blind so they're very hard for him and he doesn't understand how people enjoy them. I would have one going all the time except he's a neat freak and thinks they're too messy.

I have the kind of mind that loves the feeling of solving puzzles, finding patterns, figuring things out etc. It's almost euphoric. Kind of weird, I know. I love spelling too. Again, finding those patterns....

 

[cheyita]

My dining room table is currently covered with a 1000-piecer I'm working on each night. I'm not crazy about the scenery ones that have WAY too many green leaves. The one I'm working now is a montage of animal drawings that I bought at the zoo. The one I did before that is a montage of lighthouse drawings from around Lake Michigan.

I have fond, fond memories of staying up late at night with my dad working jigsaw puzzles and listening to US99 (country music - which neither of us really listen to but we used to when we did puzzles for some reason).

 

[cheyita]

I LOVE jigsaw puzzles and would do them with my dad a lot.

I have the kind of mind that loves the feeling of solving puzzles, finding patterns, figuring things out etc. It's almost euphoric. Kind of weird, I know. I love spelling too. Again, finding those patterns....

Read the post I just wrote about me and my dad. How weird is that?

And I can relate to your last paragraph too.

 

[disykat]

We used to do them occasionally, but a Mickey Mouse puzzle broke our spirit! We got the 1000 piece puzzle made up of tiny little scenes from Disney movies. We had it up in our Den for months until we gave up and took it down. Now it is downstairs in the exercise room, where it can stay until it is completed, but no one ever works on it!

I try to keep some puzzles in progress in my classroom at all times.

 

[TurboKitty]

DS and I both like to be driven insane by all those little pieces, to slowly find the answers.

DD, however, is a machine. Puzzles really click with her. Her autism and being extrememly visual may have something to do with that, though. We've only let her go on those 24 piece ones so far, but who knows if she's like the ones with more pieces.

 

[maciec]

Check out this site:

http://www.jigzone.com/

I love JIGZONE !!!! It sure does make time go by though if you are doing a hard puzzle. I wish that you could save your progress though in case you have to get off of the web for any reason....oh let's just say work maybe?

 

[dmslush]

I love puzzles. I especially love the disney photomosaics! I have this one hanging in my upstairs hallway! It was too difficult to take apart when I finished it, so I framed it.

 

[Linnie The Pooh]

Read the post I just wrote about me and my dad. How weird is that?

And I can relate to your last paragraph too.

That IS weird! My dad would always tell me when he was kid on the farm and they were poor, they couldn't afford presents for Christmas, but his parents always found the money to get him a jigsaw puzzle.

I'll be thinking of him this Christmas... It reminds me of when, sometimes we'd start one late at night and go to bed after awhile, leaving it unfinished. I'd get up in the morning and he'd have gotten up early and finished it. He always saved his puzzles until I saw them, then he'd take them apart.

 

[Jenn Lynn]

I love them, but don't have a place to keep them out away from the toddler. Maybe when he is a little older I will get back into them.

 

[TheGoofster]

I love puzzles. The problem is once I start I hate to stop. Normaly I will do a 1000 piecer in about 6 hours. The only really hard puzzle that I've done was one my wife gave me. It was a 1000 piece puzzle with the same picture on both sides, but with one side rotated at about 45 degrees. The trick was trying to decide which side the piece you had would go on. That one took a couple of days.

 

[disykat]

I love puzzles. I especially love the disney photomosaics! I have this one hanging in my upstairs hallway! It was too difficult to take apart when I finished it, so I framed it.

That's the one that killed us! If we ever finish it, we're going to hang it as well.

 

[Pixiedust34]

We used to do them occasionally, but a Mickey Mouse puzzle broke our spirit! We got the 1000 piece puzzle made up of tiny little scenes from Disney movies. We had it up in our Den for months until we gave up and took it down. Now it is downstairs in the exercise room, where it can stay until it is completed, but no one ever works on it!

I try to keep some puzzles in progress in my classroom at all times.

I have that puzzle! We never finished it. That one is HARD.

 

[luvflorida]

I LOVE jigsaw puzzles, and I usually have a 1,000 piece puzzle in the works somewhere in the house. I like doing puzzles that match the season; summer scenes in the summer, winter scenes in the winter, etc.

Right now, I'm working on a Christmas scene, (tree, fireplace, gifts, window with snowman outside), and a few weeks ago, I finished a fall themed puzzle.

I have two waiting in the wings. One is a picture of three snowmen dressed in winter clothing, and the other is a picture of three kittens in Christmas stockings.

I'm also a bit OCD about my puzzles. Once I start one, I find it hard to stop. Just one more piece, gotta find just one more piece. And no one else better TOUCH my puzzle!

 

[LBAK]

What do you do with puzzles that you finish?

Turbokitty- I taught a 4 yo autistic boy (my favorite student of all time by the way) and he could do a 100 piece puzzle in 15 minutes. He was definitely visual and he was the other children's inspiration in the class. Definitely get a puzzle with more pieces for your DD and let her go to town!

 

[azgal81]

I love puzzles. I tired to put one together recently but with two cats it didn't go good!

 

[kfeuer]

We used to do them occasionally, but a Mickey Mouse puzzle broke our spirit! We got the 1000 piece puzzle made up of tiny little scenes from Disney movies. We had it up in our Den for months until we gave up and took it down. Now it is downstairs in the exercise room, where it can stay until it is completed, but no one ever works on it!

I have that puzzle and had a great time with it except for the darn black parts, that was really tough.

My sister got me this great cardboard puzzle holder that lets you put the puzzle away when you're done with it, which is quite helpful. It looks like this:

I love doing puzzles, but have had to lay off lately because my neck gets really sore if I look down too long (and once I get started, it's hard to stop!)