Zoe's Puzzles

As we all know, Zoe is a puzzle master.  She has been putting together flat jigsaw puzzles for about 10 years and with great ease.  She graduated to 3D puzzles after the 2D ones began to become less of a challenge, which she also puts together so quickly and easily that she tricks the viewer into thinking that she/he can do it too.  As the viewer sits down to participate in creating the puzzle, it quickly becomes obvious that her/his skills are low and Zoe's are very, very high.  The shape and colours fit together in her brain, her hands reach out to the matching pieces and she places them in their respective spots faster than you or I.

In April Zoe and Tonia headed to the game store to look for puzzles and found two: a unicorn shaped puzzle and a fairy shaped puzzle.  (Tonia found 'Trader and Barbarians' part 4 of Settlers of Catan.)  The unicorn puzzle pieces were placed in the table first and the combining of weird shapes began.  At one point, Lurene, Tim, Zoe and Tonia were all to go bowling but we could not pull ourselves away from the last 20 pieces that needed help finding their spots.  In the end, Tim was the slowest and we dragged him away and headed for the bowling alley.  Zoe finished the puzzle the next day and posed for pictures for the family blog.

These are the things Zoe likes about jigsaw puzzles:

- they are cool because they have shapes and pictures

- they glow and glitter

- the 3D puzzles look fantastic

- puzzles help people feel happy when they are done

- I am good at skills so I like puzzles

- more people should do puzzles because they like to play with them, they are fun

So get out a puzzle, enjoy the thrill of finishing an activity piece by piece.