Foam Board Pictures and Puzzles

Hello! Today is day two of my Elmer's Giveaway project ideas. 

Elmer's is giving a kit of some of goodies to one of my readers at the end of this week. 

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 For today, I used some of my images from my I Spy books to make some puzzles for my boys.

This idea comes from a guide of 101 foam board uses that Elmer's has put together... found here.

I printed up some color images on high end copy paper at my local print shop
{just ask for the paper they like to print pictures on...but not photo paper}.

I find that a print shop can print a better quality picture than my home printer.

I also personally recommend copy paper prints over photo paper prints when mounting to foam board.

I used the Elmer's extra strength glue stick to glue my image onto a piece of foam board.

I then trimmed all the rough and uneven sides off.

I am not very good at wielding an exact-o knife when it comes to something as thick as foam board.

So my puzzle pieces ended up getting cut like this. 

Just straight cuts. 

I did some triangular and square notches with this one.
I first tried rounded cuts but had to just cut off what I messed up. :)

Meh...a square puzzle will still be fun.

I added a layer of mod podge to the pieces after they were cut, to protect the image and to seal it more securely to the foam board.

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My second project from the guide today, 

is simply mounting an image to foam board for display.

 I took this cute picture of my boys laughing together and followed the same steps as with the puzzle. But instead of cutting it up, I just mod podged it and propped it up on their book shelf.

They share a room so I thought it was fitting to have a picture of them together in their room. I like that it was inexpensive and easy to put together, so they can love it and hold it without smudging it up. If they break it, I won't sweat it as much. ;)

I hope you are having a lovely November day. 

I'll be back tomorrow with some Christmas projects using foam board. 

See you then!