Friday's Grand Connection Fun
by Mary May Larmoyeux

A cold front moved through Arkansas last night and fall is in the air! So today, I thought we'd visit some websites that have printable fall coloring pages, words searches, mazes, and more.

The websites below have coloring pages and mazes that are perfect for the younger crowd (I printed off some for Pops' and my grandkids):

BOZ

Kaboose

Homeschool Helper

Here are a couple of mazes:

Pumpkin Maze

Spider Maze

And we may want to bookmark the following website with its array of puzzles for ages 3 - 12:

Puzzles4Kids

For those of us with out-of-town grands, we could print off some coloring sheets or puzzles and send them by e-mail or snail mail. Or, we could just forward this blog post to their parents.

Have fun,
Mary
http://www.marymaywrites.com/
http://grandconnection.blogspot.com/

P.S. If you live in the Little Rock area, you may want to check out the Pinnacle Mountain Rendezvous and Fall Festival this weekend (October 17-18).

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Puzzle fun!

Friday's Grand Connection Fun
by Mary May Larmoyeux

Two of the grands were at the house last night and they had a great time putting a package of School Zone puzzle cards together to make three-letter words. For example: the entire picture of a dog was on three 4x6 cards (the ears and head were on one card: D; his stomach on another: O; and the third card had his tail: G).

From a stack of cards, the kids had to find the three cards that formed the picture of the dog and put them together. Then the older grandchild spelled the word by looking at the letters.

It would be so easy to make our own sets of puzzle cards. We could do this by printing pictures on cardstock and cutting each picture into pieces. If we wanted to make easy three-word puzzles for the young crowd, we could print a picture (example, family dog) on cardstock, cut it in thirds, and put the individual letters of a word on the separate pieces.

We could make larger printed pictures (on cardstock) for the older crowd, and cut them into many pieces.

Here are some more puzzle ideas. The website Discovery Education has a neat puzzle-making program! In a few minutes we can make a maze, word search, hidden message puzzle, and more. I want to bookmark this site. Wouldn't it be great to mail special, custom-designed puzzles to the long-distance grandkids!

Do you work puzzles with your grands or have special childhood memories of putting puzzles together?

Have fun,
Mary
www.marymaywrites.com

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