I found these Creatology wooden puzzles at Michael's a long time ago and promptly forgot about them. I rediscovered them when I cleaned out the front closet not long ago. I figured we should make them soon before I forgot about them again.
Tysen's wooden puzzle was a dinosaur. The package said ages 4+, but I thought he could probably do it OK. He punched out all the pieces but did need quite a bit of help putting it together. We actually ended up gluing some of the pieces on since it didn't stay together very well. He loved making his purple dinosaur!
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| Punching out the pieces. |
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| The finished dino! |
Koen's wooden puzzle was a helicopter. I wasn't sure if he would be excited about this since his passion is trains, but Michael's didn't have any trains, and it's always good to try new things. :) He was SUPER excited about his project and couldn't wait to complete it! The project was designed for ages 6+, but he still needed help, especially with the assembly instructions which weren't always that easy for me to figure out. But we did it! I had to put most of it together, although he punched out all the pieces and helped me find all the parts we needed.
Overall, I was a little disappointed that they couldn't do more of the puzzles themselves, but they both loved the process, so maybe this is just a stepping stone for crafting more models. I was surprised the next day when Koen asked to paint his helicopter. He got out his watercolors and went to work, spending quite a bit of time painting each section of his helicopter. It looked fantastic!
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| The finished colorful helicopter. |
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