Want Fun For All The Family? Try A Photo Collage Jigsaw Puzzle

By Colin Southwell

A classic, timeless family activity, putting together a puzzle is not only fun, but also creative and interesting. It's a way to use your brain and to relax at the same time.

You can rush through on an rainy afternoon or take your time and complete it over a month. You can do other things simultaneously and leave the puzzle at any time and come back to it when you have time.

For many years, I bought jigsaw puzzles from Wal-Mart and other department stores. However, after a while, all of the store bought puzzles got boring and seemed somewhat the same. At that point I started looking at alternative styles of jigsaws and came across photo puzzles. These let you choose your own picture, so you can actually make a jigsaw from a picture of your family or friends.

These photo puzzles are great! They combine the fun of looking through fond memories with the fun of solving a puzzle. It's a type of jigsaw that you want to do more than once, and also to lend to your close ones.

An additional bonus is that you can make a puzzle from more than just one picture. You can create a photo collage of all of your favourite digital photos and have them tell a story of an event or a time in yours, or someone else's, life. The result is a thoughtful keepsake or gift that anyone would love to receive.

One of my children had a particularly wonderful and caring teacher. What a wonderful gift I thought, to give her a picture collage of all four of my sons made into a jigsaw puzzle for her students to put together in the classroom during free time.

Family reunions are also a great time to celebrate with a photo collage puzzle. With the rising popularity of online social networking and genealogy websites, there are more and more meetings of family members and long lost friends. The internet is the perfect tool to collect old photos from friends and family and put these together into a wonderful photo collage.

A photo collage jigsaw puzzle makes a unique gift for grandparents, old friends or anyone else you haven't seen in a long time. It's a great way to relax, have fun and remember the good times.

These are only a few examples of the different ways you can use a photo collage jigsaw puzzle. I'm sure you can think of a few more! - 30224

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