Organizing Puzzles

Updated on October 23, 2007
J.P. asks from Chicago, IL
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Okay...I am a bit type A. My son's puzzles are driving me crazy. How do you organize your puzzles? He has several that are really long and one that is just big. The rest seem to be more normal sized. Thanks for your input!

Oops I guess I should clarify. These are the chunky wood puzzles for toddlers. Some are just chunky pieces and some have handles.

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Thanks for the responses. I got some good ideas!

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T.S.

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We use the Ikea Trofast storage system, also. I put the puzzles up where our son can't reach them - but knows where they are and will ask to play with them. I just make sure we put them back when he is done.

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A.M.

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what kind of puzzles are these? jigsaw or wooden puzzles? I took my son's jigsaw puzzles (mostly the ones for which the boxes are broken)... I put each puzzle's pieces in a large ziploc bag and labeled it with a sharpie (which puzzle it was + how many pieces) and then I cut up the box so that I could take the picture of the puzzle on the box and put that in the bag too (so you know what you are making). I also numbered each puzzle for instance Sesame street is puzzle #1 and I marked the back of each sesame street puzzle piece with 1 just in case my son opened up 5 puzzles and all the pieces were mixed up, then clean up would be easier. I just put all those ziploc bags with the individual puzzles in each bag into a plastic storage bin and then we have puzzles just in one place.

sorry .. sounds more complicated than it actually is :)

Aarti.

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J.C.

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You can buy wooden organizers for puzzles, like this: http://www.discountschoolsupply.com/Product/ProductDetail...

If the toys are stored somewhere he can't get to them on his own, you can use 2 gallon ziploc bags to hold pretty big-sized puzzles and other toys with small pieces. Not all stores carry that size, but you can find them online.

I currently keep puzzles in the smaller size Ikea bins in our Trofast system, but I just stack them assembled on top of one another. (but current preschooler is less messy than my first preschooler was!)

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M.

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I just started putting pieces in plastic bags and cheap(dollar store) plasticwear, and putting them all away together so that I can control what my son has out.

Hope that helps!

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