Did you put together a large Christmas puzzle this year? WAIT! Don’t take it apart just yet! Do what my mom did, and divide it into 25 sections, and put each section into its own lil numbered baggie, and make it an Advent / countdown-to-Christmas calendar for next year! You can number the baggies however you like: maybe you want them RANDOMIZED, so that the little puzzle-segments accumulate on the table but can’t be joined up yet! maybe you want them ORDERLY, so that the upper lefthand corner is day 1, and the next segment to the right is day 2 and joins up with it, and so forth! You can impose your own will, and you can change your mind next year if you want, simply by putting different puzzle-segments into different numbered baggies!
I had photos to illustrate this concept, but I seem to have misplaced them.
Great idea for when the kids are a little older. Do you usually pick a puzzle with 500, 1000, 2000 pieces? Hope you’re having a great time and am looking forward to your posts as they really brighten my day (even if it is mainly snark, which is a relief in the glossy perfect social media world)..