1. Home

Puzzles with Cardboard Boxes

Puzzles with Cardboard Boxes

About Puzzles with Cardboard Boxes

In this game children create their own puzzles using recyled cardboard boxes, magazines pictures, or their own drawings. Doing puzzles is a great way to help even very young children practice their visual-spatial skills. Strong visual-spatial skills are highly correlated with success in higher-level math.

Game Materials

Cardboard boxes, such as cereal boxes, toy boxes, etc. Your own drawing or photo Scissors


What's the math in this game?

Throughout this activity, children are exposed to a few important geometric ideas. They are learning about identifying shapes and describing their position relative to each other using positional language. They are composing and comparing shapes within their puzzle. They also have the opportunity to count the number of puzzle pieces.

Download Directions for Puzzles with Cardboard Boxes

 English EN

Cardboard Puzzles English

 Español ES

Puzzles with Cardboard Boxes

 Português PT

Puzzles with Cardboard Boxes Portuguese

 Haitian Creole HT

Puzzles with Cardboard Boxes Haitian Creole

Watch a Video!

Puzzles with Cardboard Boxes (English)
Puzzles with Cardboard Boxes (Spanish)
Puzzles with Cardboard Boxes (Portuguese)
Puzzles with Cardboard Boxes (Haitian Creole)