Here’s a great DIY puzzle for toddlers who have recently learned their shapes. Matching up the outlines of craft stick is great for fine motor skills, too!

To set up, I arranged jumbo craft sticks on plain white paper and traced the outlines. I made one page each for a triangle, square, and diamond, and decided to trace each shape with a different color just in case we wanted to add a color component to the game.

I also then colored on the craft sticks with crayon in corresponding colors. We now had a red triangle, green square, and purple diamond.

Now slip each shape into a zip-top plastic bag and show your toddler how to line the craft sticks up over each outline.

Because there’s nothing to hold the craft sticks in place as in a puzzle board, Veronika’s shapes were always a little askew, but she certainly had the right idea!

There was even a happy victory dance after she finished the triangle!

I loved watching her puzzle through exactly where each stick should go.

It turned out that she mixed and matched the colors, rather than placing a purple stick in a purple outline, etc., but that was just fine, too.