Creative Uses For Finished Puzzles

Creative Uses For Finished Puzzles – We’ve given you eight ideas for completing your puzzles, including how to display your puzzles as wall art and spread the puzzle love with a donation.

Of course, after completing the puzzle, you can stick it in the box. But if your puzzle is missing a piece or two, you probably don’t want to keep it, and donating it isn’t really an option.

Creative Uses For Finished Puzzles

Speaking of love, here at Blue Kazoo, we’re passionate about puzzles and working with some of the best puzzles to date.

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Jillian Hall, our head of production, is not only an avid puzzler but also a craft whiz. Unsatisfied with the puzzle being completed, she transforms the puzzle pieces into stunning works of art—just in time for the holidays. Get a glimpse of his creations below.

Homemade tree garlands often include beads, fruit or popcorn. It’s not. In addition to the puzzle pieces, this wreath was made using a power drill, a needle and some ribbon.

If you decide to tackle this project yourself, choose a ribbon color in the length you want for the full strand of your garland. Start by drilling a hole in the center of each puzzle piece. With that part done, it’s just a matter of stringing the ribbon through each piece and tying the ends.

You don’t have to be limited to cookies and candies as your resources when building a gingerbread house. These adorable homes are a prime example.

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Cut cardboard or sturdy poster board to the size you want your house to be and glue your pieces together as you see fit (we recommend using a hot glue gun for this process). Other items that can be included are beads, pipe cleaners, craft foam, feathers, and more.

This mini tree is the perfect addition to an office or small apartment. The process is similar to a puzzle garland, with the ribbon substituted for strong, but bendable, wire.

Drill the holes and string the wire into the pieces, then twist the wire until it is roughly cone shaped. Leave some room at the end to add a starry topper. This piece includes strings and beads to be added. Use your imagination!

Solid colored puzzle pieces make a unique gift tag that is sure to stand out. Grab a fine point marker or pen, a glue stick, and as many puzzle pieces as needed (such as from our Impossible series). Write the recipient’s name on the piece, let it dry, then stick it to the wrapped gift 🎁.

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This crafty watch isn’t specific to the holiday season, but it’s show-worthy. Using our completed color wheel puzzle as a backdrop, a single piece is removed to allow the watch’s wiring mechanics to fit seamlessly. Now that’s functional art 👏.

*If you receive a broken or incomplete Blue Cashew puzzle, email us at orders@ so we can make it right.Eureka! Puzzles puts its 4,320-piece Disney puzzle on display in the gallery after everyone completes individual sections. (David Leschinski)

While his friends were growing up on baseball fields and basketball courts, David Leschinski stayed home and fiddled with any puzzle he could get his hands on.

For Leschinsky, there are few activities more relaxing than completing puzzles. He loved jigsaws so much that he left the tech industry 16 years ago to start Eureka! Puzzles, a jigsaw store in Brookline, Mass.

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When the novel coronavirus began consuming the United States in March, Leschinski wanted others to access his go-to leisure activity when many people were stuck in their homes. He distributed parts of the 40,320-piece puzzle to nearby residents, hoping to join the components once the health crisis subsided.

This was Jigsaw Project Eureka! Puzzles that build a small community and provide fun activities for Massachusetts residents during the pandemic.

“To work on that puzzle,” said Malka Benjamin, one of the project’s participants, “I think that’s why I’m closed off mentally.”

The puzzle consists of 10 parts that contain 4,000 pieces each. Disney movies in each category include “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs,” “Peter Pan,” “Fantasia,” “The Jungle Book,” “Dumbo,” “The Little Mermaid,” “Bambi,” “Beauty and the Beast,” ” Cinderella” and “The Lion King.”

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Near the beginning of 2019, Eureka! The puzzle purchased a jigsaw from Ravensburger, a German puzzle manufacturer, to add to its collection of over 5,000 items. Until March, the biggest jigsaw puzzle Eureka! Proprietary puzzles sat on the top shelf of the small shop.

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Looking at it one day in March, Leschinski asked his employees about distributing the $600 puzzle pieces to customers for free. They thought that no one would be interested.

Instead, when Leschinksy sent out an email to customers, he said more than 150 people responded. Leschinski’s family took a piece, and he found nine other people near Brookline to whom he would send about 4,000 pieces of the puzzle. Participants picked up puzzle pieces and foam board at the store before closing at the end of March.

Leschinski created a social media hashtag, #EurekaTogetherApart, and asked contributors to share their progress on Instagram. Participants were bound by the common goal of completing a larger puzzle, and they could share their weaknesses and accomplishments virtually.

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“There’s so much animosity in the world,” said Leschinski, 65. Things are so polarized that everything seems to be misaligned all the time. You can still work them together and work them together and come together to create something that is bigger than any of us. In some ways this is what the puzzle is; It’s bigger than any individual or household that did it.”

Like Leschinski, Benjamin loved puzzles from an early age. When she was about 10 years old, Benjamin grabbed dozens of puzzles from the closet of her Newtown, Mass., home and worked on them every minute of the day for two weeks, covering her entire living room.

After Benjamin poured the puzzle pieces onto her dining room table for the “Beauty and the Beast” segment, she retrieved several bowls from her kitchen and sorted the pieces by color and pattern. She often worked on puzzles in the evenings and on weekends. She’ll play “The Lonely Palette Podcast” or “Gastropod” and lose track of time.

When Benjamin felt frustrated or accomplished, she took to Instagram to share her progress with other participants. About two months later, after she finished, she delighted the remaining participants with virtual comments. Some of Benjamin’s friends felt hurt when he was forbidden to visit friends or leave the house.

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“I never felt that way … because in my evenings I would be able to lose myself in a puzzle and not worry about how I’m doing it or whether I’m not doing it,” said Benjamin, 35. Plimoth Plantation Living History Museum in Plymouth, Mass. “It was almost like a gift of time to work on this puzzle.”

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Carl Nyst-Lund also wanted to stock up on jigsaws during the pandemic, so he stopped by the Eureka! Puzzles a day on his way to work as a research assistant at Boston Children’s Hospital. He bought some 500-piece puzzles for himself and his roommate, Frederick Gergits. They wanted a bigger challenge, however, so they joined the 40,320-piece puzzle project.

To bring their family and friends together, Nist-Lund and Gergits attempted to complete “The Jungle Book” component in 24 hours while streaming themselves on YouTube. They needed an extra week to finish, but they ended up with lots of memories. One night, Nist-Lund and Gergits lose a piece of the green puzzle while trying to find furniture and rugs in their Boston apartment. They give up, but the next morning while eating an English muffin, Gergit notices a piece in the middle of the living room floor. They couldn’t help but laugh.

Massachusetts stores were allowed to reopen in June. It was perfect timing because it was around the time everyone finished their contributions. Eureka! Puzzle employees picked up the sections and glued them together in their basement, creating a 22½-foot-long puzzle. The store put on display on September 23 in an adjacent gallery to reveal all the puzzle builders in attendance.

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A few months ago, Ravensburger shipped another 40,000-piece jigsaw to Eureka! Puzzles – Featuring Mickey Mouse photos from across the decades. Leschinsky plans to distribute its sections soon — hoping it will help 10 other people avoid trouble. Interior pieces make beautiful, frameable puzzles. Some of you have asked us how to frame a jigsaw puzzle, so we thought we’d show you a few ways to do it.

The best way to secure your puzzle for framing is to use puzzle glue. There are dedicated puzzle glues on Amazon, but our favorite glue is the classic Mod Pose Puzzle Saver. All you need is Mod Podge and something to apply it to – we use a putty knife but we’ve seen people

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