Hanukkah Puzzle for Kids

Just finished painting up this cool puzzle for Hanukkah!

It’s a tray puzzle, so I thought I’d add some pics about how to glue the (very simple) tray together.

Thin super glue and clothespins! When the frame is clamped together, squeezing a little super glue into the crack on the outside edge wicks it through and leaves no visible residue. Bonus, it is dried in like 2 minutes. (the giant super glue bottle is from my spouse for rc planes).

And the eye dropper thing makes this so much easier (I forgot where I got them, so if anyone knows what they are actually called, please tell me! :sweat_smile:)

Priming the puzzle white before cutting is the best way to paint a puzzle, but since I wanted pics of wood only too, I used my gelli pad to roll out gesso and stamp it onto the face of the assembled puzzle, being careful not to gum up the scores. Then I rolled out some colorful paints and patted them on using the side of the brush so I wouldn’t get too much paint in the cracks.

I made the puzzle pieces extra big, but the figure pieces like the latke and challah are a bit small. I couldn’t decide if I wanted one color candles or multi color, but more colors are always better, and I think they turned out pretty :smiling_cat_with_heart_eyes: Now just to submit it to the catalog :sweat_smile:

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Wow! Love all the color!!! Beautifully done!

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Terrific! Thanks for the write up and pics.

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Nice puzzle! Great colors.

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Quite lovely!

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@ptodd, @dklgood, @MakerMatthew, & @Thumper369 Thank you! I admit I’m a little nervous about getting any of the figure pieces (dreidl, dove of piece, gelt (coins)) wrong for the holiday, since I don’t know any Jewish people to run it past. But hopefully they all make sense!

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This looks wonderful!

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Try searching for glue pipettes.

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Holiday-riffic!!

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This is very pretty, wonderful puzzle!

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Disposable pipettes…

https://a.co/d/3Z2xgOy

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That turned out really, really nice! Love the colors. I hope you do submit it to the catalog. I’ll have to keep my eye out for it (although I also don’t know any Jewish people :grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes: ). You did a great job!

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I can’t speak for the accuracy stuff since I’m not Jewish, but I think this is beautiful!

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Ah-ha! Pipettes! That is what they are called :sweat_smile: Thanks @jamesdhatch and @dwardio. It is crazy how just having the correct vocabulary makes such a big difference in being able to find them.

@rvogt, @tjones, @aloha thank you :grinning_cat_with_smiling_eyes:

@ellencadwell & @trually thanks for the vote of confidence, and I am working on getting it submitted today!

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Yay!! Will be looking for it.

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I love your puzzles that feature the hero pieces. I wish I had puzzlers on my gift list, but alas, they’d rather do other things.

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