All About Me Collaborative Puzzle Pieces

You are part of the puzzle!  Each student in my older grades (3-5) made a puzzle piece about themselves and their interests.  I should have written:  You are a PIECE of the puzzle.  Or, I could have said: We all fit together.  I know, it’s kind of corny, but the puzzle piece making was fun.

I bought a set of wooden puzzle pieces (the package came with two pieces) and I traced them onto several pieces of tagboard to make puzzle piece templates.  The puzzle pieces in this package are 12.5″x12.5″ so they are too big to photocopy.

The kids traced the template on to their piece of white paper.  Then, they drew their name across the front and added pictures of things that interested them.  One class I had them cut out magazine pictures and the other classes just drew pictures with markers and crayons.  They cut their pieces out, which was challenging for the kids.  We also outlined some of them in black which made them stand out more when up against each other.

I think the children did a wonderful job and I love how they are all unique!

I hung them up on multiple bulletin boards.  Even though all the puzzle pieces were the same shape, the kids oriented them differently, so it was a mental challenge to put them all together without hanging them upside down.

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