Fern Michonski / Fern’s Music
Pre-School Music Education Expert: The Children’s Advocate for Love and Kindness, Inspiring Creativity and Joy.
January 18, 2012—Family Portrait Puzzles
The best gift anyone can give to their children is their time. There are many ways to share and spend quality time with your children. One exciting activity is what I call Family Portrait Puzzles. It is something you need to plan for ahead of time, but once you have created the portrait puzzles you can use them time and again for an enjoyable evening of fun with your kids.
Take a close-up picture of every member of your family. Develop each picture into an 8×10 and then glue each picture onto separate 8×10 pieces of poster board paper. Then cut each picture up into simple puzzle pieces and put each picture’s pieces into a brown lunch bag. Finally, place all the bags from each person’s individual pictures into a large bag. You are now ready for a fun night of Family Portrait Puzzles.
Get the whole family together and one by one, each person reaches into the large bag and chooses one brown lunch bag. At this point, no one knows whose picture they have chosen. Then, one at a time, each person puts their puzzle together, figuring out as they go, which family member’s picture they have. Once the puzzle is completely put together and you know whose picture you have, you then give that person a big hug and tell them why you love them! Each person in the family ends up with a big hug, compliments and memories that will last a lifetime.
You could expand this game including pictures of extended family members, family pets, outside animals, etc.