If you??™re looking for a new and unique activity for the family, consider turning pictures the
family members take into jigsaw puzzles, which you can then solve together, or give to the kids
to solve on their own. You can make pictures into real, live puzzles by gluing a print of your
photo onto a piece of cardboard (the thicker the better), and then cutting it carefully into curved
pieces.
If you??™re not that handy with glue and scissors, you can solve your puzzles on the computer
screen. Consider BrainsBreaker, for instance; it is an onscreen jigsaw puzzle game that lets you
create puzzles out of any picture on your computer.
You can download a free trial of BrainsBreaker at www.brainsbreaker.com. If you like it, the
complete program costs $20.
Make a Photo Journal
There??™s a little reporter in every kid, or so it seems. If you want to nurture that aspect of your
kid??™s intellect, suggest that they create a photo journal. Here??™s how it works: your kid picks one
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day each week to carry a digital camera around and snap pictures of anything that he or she finds
interesting. There??™s just one rule: take pictures. Lots of pictures.
When the camera comes home at the end of the day, your child can transfer the pictures to
the PC, and then organize the images into a journal, complete with captions for each picture.
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