Kitchen Puzzle

I saw an idea on Pinterest to make your own kitchen puzzle with a file folder and regular items around your kitchen. Miss V is always curious about things happening in the kitchen and she loves puzzles or "puffls" as she calls them so I knew it would be a hit. She is working on shapes and knows "circle" so I chose a lot of circular shapes.

Then I just traced them with a sharpie on the file folder and quick made a cover that I will have V decorate/color the next time we use it. 

Miss V got to work matching the objects. She was a little confused at first and was trying to "push" the pieces into place like with a regular puzzle. I was not surprised that she figured out what lids went with which foods. The applesauce pouch lid she calls "pouch" and the baby puffs lid she knew were for the puffs and yelled it excitedly hoping some of the puffs would magically appear on the lid :)

That's a circle mom!

starting to take them all off for round 2

silly mom, this spoon goes over here...let me take care of this

Miss V spent quite a lot of time working on the very smallest circle shape/object; a kidney bean. I have a bin of them for her to play in and scoop with cups and bowls. She loves them but it makes a huge mess! So I just took one out and traced it for the puzzle. She was surprised to see it and probably knew it belonged with the other beans. Since she was barefoot, the bean stuck to her feet and, seeing as it is small, was hard for her to grasp and take off. It was comical to watch.

I put all the pieces in a bin by her play kitchen and we do the puzzle each time she plays in the kitchen. We are starting to learn square for the big lid. I also found an Eric Carle shapes book at Half Price Books that she really likes and has helped her learn how to say triangle! Miss V is a smarty and it has nothing to do with Mom being a teacher ;)