Open Ended Puzzles

I am so excited about the puzzles we gave our kids for Christmas this year. You might have noticed Sarah’s puzzle featured in my blog banner. Her puzzle is a round circle with intricate small pieces in multiple colors that can be placed together inside or outside of the wooden circle tray to create an infinite number of brightly colored designs.

Mr. Sneaky Pants’ puzzle is pictured below: a series of colored blocks that can be arranged to form a stepped pyramid, or whatever design you wish. Noah likes to create interesting Manhattan skylines with the blocks. In the third picture below, Sarah created a puzzle “computer.” Everyone’s imaginations run wild with these puzzles, and I don’t envision anyone getting tired with them anytime soon. I have the best time sitting down and playing with them, too. They are made of alder wood and dyed with natural dyes, and the the pieces just feel so nourishing in your fingers.

The company that makes them has so many similarly wonderfully designed puzzles. I want them ALL! But I will refrain. I will refrain. I will refrain . . . some!