At least if your family likes jigsaw puzzles. The idea is very simple, laminate a photograph onto some laser-cuttable board, and then run the laser over the outline of the pieces. Bam! Instant puzzle.

Let your child decide what to cut up and make a puzzle from - it could be a cereal box, leaflet or other piece of card from the recycling. Ask them about why they have chosen that picture to use.

[Kagen] shows an example of the concept, where a flat wood piece with slots cut from ... Feeling the urge to make your own puzzle boxes? Take a look at some we’ve seen over the years, and ...

The makers of Wilmot Works It Out, a new puzzle game, understand this, and everything about the game is designed to make solving puzzles fun instead of annoying.