Puzzle Piece Crafts for All Seasons!

 

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Puzzle Piece Crafts for All Seasons!

Do you have some old puzzles that have some pieces missing? If not, you can find them easily at garage sales and thrift stores. Puzzles are frustrating when there are pieces missing so might as well recycle them into some puzzle piece crafts.

I’ve included a few ideas that I have done and then rounded-up lots more for all seasons of the year! Hope they come in handy!

To get started, on a nice calm day, place puzzle pieces in a box and spray paint. If  painting each piece by hand with acrylic paints, the paint stays better on the back side of the puzzle pieces. Otherwise, spray paint is fine on the front.

Paint  pieces with many different colors. It’s a good way to use up extra spray paint, right? You will want a variety of colors so you have them on hand for any season. Let dry and bag them according to color.

Red for Valentines, Apples, Christmas

Green for Christmas Trees, wreaths, Spring leaves, aliens or monsters

Yellow for sun, Easter Cross, lions

Orange for pumpkins, fall leaves

Pink for Valentines

Black for Halloween bats, faces on pumpkins

White for lambs, bunnies, snowflakes, snowmen

Brown for reindeer, trees

 

Here are ideas for each season:

Winter:

 

Wreaths – Puzzle Piece Crafts for All Seasons grandparentsplus.com

                                                       Wreath from www.timesobserver.com

Place a child’s photo inside the wreath!

Reindeer-

Puzzle Piece Crafts for All Seasons grandparentsplus.com

Go to FamilyCrafts.about.com  for a complete tutorial!

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Go to www.daniellesplace.com

Nine other puzzle piece crafts  from Daniellesplace include: lion, cow, whale, turkey, penguin, Frankenstein, butterflies, baby and giraffes!

Now that should be enough to keep you busy for months! But wait! There’s more!

 

Jesus – The missing piece in Christmas….

I love this one – also from  daniellesplace.com

It makes a wonderful Christmas card!

 

Puzzle piece crafts for all seasons grandparentsplus.com

Candy Cane- 

This is one I have done!

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Santa’ s Hat –

Puzzle Piece Crafts for All Seasons grandparentsplus.com

Go to www.familycrafts

Christmas Tree

Another idea from www.familycrafts

Puzzle Piece Crafts for All Seasons grandparentsplus.com

Here’s another variation with a tutorial on both the tree and wreath.

Puzzle Piece Crafts for All Seasons grandparentsplus.com

                                                                                          Go to www.worldofwhimm

 

Add a little bling to your tree….

Puzzle Piece Crafts for All Seasons grandparentsplus.com

visit :   urbanpaisley.blogspot.com

 

Snowflake

Puzzle Piece Crafts for All Seasons grandparentsplus.com

                                                                                  From   mamapapabubba.com

Snowman- 

I love this cute snowman!

Puzzle Piece Crafts for All Seasons grandparentsplus.com

                                                                  For complete directions go to  familycrafts.about.com

 Large Snowman

Puzzle Piece Crafts for All Seasons grandparentsplus.com

This is adorable!   Go to thesenorthernskies

Christmas Garland

 

Puzzle Piece Crafts for All Seasons grandparentsplus.com

Go to  CarolineKiberd for complete instructions!

Valentines

Puzzle Piece Crafts for All Seasons grandparentsplus.com

Go to 123toddlerandme

Some adult crafts for inspiration, too! Great looks for your Valentine decor! Sorry, but I found no identification on these photos or websites for these crafts! Please let me know if you know the source!

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Go to Freshly Found
Puzzle Piece Crafts for All Seasons grandparentsplus.com

 

Puzzle Piece Crafts for All Seasons grandparentsplus.com

Spring:

 

Easter Cross

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Go to grandparentsplus.com

 

 

Whimsical Lamb

Puzzle Piece Crafts for All Seasons

Found at  freekidscrafts.com

Spring Tree

No need to paint puzzle pieces if you can find similar colors to create a picture!

Puzzle Piece Crafts for All Seasons grandparentsplus.com

 

 

Lamb and Lion

 

Puzzle Piece Crafts for All Seasons

Idea from …  thesenorthernskies

Earth Day Idea

Puzzle Piece Crafts for All Seasons grandparentsplus.com

Visit   freekidscrafts.com

Summer:

 Flowers

Puzzle Piece Crafts for All Seasons grandparentsplus.com

Use puzzle pieces that have muted shades of the same color.

Butterflies

Puzzle Piece Crafts for All Seasons grandparentsplus.com

Complete directions found on Makingfriends.com

Fall:

 

Autumn Trees

Puzzle Piece Crafts for All Seasons

Idea from  meaningfulmama

Pumpkin Place Card

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Go to exquisitelyunremarkable

Apple

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Visit savingcentswithsense.net

I love the brown paper bag background!

Jack-O-Lantern

Puzzle Piece Crafts for All Seasons

Go to  Jadaroo

Turkey

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Miscellaneous Ideas:

I thought this idea was so cute. Imagine it on a card.

  Puzzle Piece Crafts for All Seasons grandparentsplus.com Go to squidoo

Jewelry

Puzzle Piece Crafts for All Seasons grandparentsplus.com

Found on Folksy

Napkin Rings

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Found on hgtv.com

Framed Name Using Puzzle Pieces – Such a great idea!

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Go to NurseryProject to see this!

Aliens, Monsters, and People

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Found on CreationsbyCheryl

Puzzle Piece Crafts for All Seasons grandparentsplus.com

Found on funfamilycrafts

Puzzle Piece Crafts for All Seasons grandparentsplus.com

Found on AllKidsNetwork

Frames

I like the use of denim puzzle pieces on this frame!

Puzzle Piece Crafts for All Seasons grandparentsplus.com

Go to MakingFriends

Puzzle Piece Crafts for All Seasons grandparentsplus.com

Go to BuggyandBuddy for instructions

This by no means is a complete list of possibilities, but it will give you lots of ideas to try. Perhaps,  more than you need!

Hope you found some new ideas of what to do with your old puzzle pieces!

Thanks for stopping by,

Phyllis

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