General Conference Activity: Puzzles

This year, I pulled out a couple of puzzles. We set them up in the living room, where we watch conference. It turned out to be the best thing. My hands were busy, but my mind was focused on the speakers.

My husband takes notes, but I don't. Doing the puzzles with the boys was a great way to listen and watch, but it also kept them occupied. We did this space one on Sunday. We have a small kids table and chairs that is too small for my boys, but was perfect for the puzzles. I just put a large piece of cardboard on the top, which was large enough for the puzzle. I could sit on the couch and they sat on the chairs or the floor.

We did the temple one on Saturday. I found the Salt Lake temple puzzle at Wal-Mart several weeks ago and had just put it away for the future. (Isn't it pretty! My older son wants to mount it and hang it up!) Any kind of puzzle would work though. Neither of these was large: one was 300 pieces, one was 500 pieces, but you could do whatever your family likes or has on hand.

The boys alternated between their word finds and conference bingo and the puzzles. I think this will be a new General Conference tradition for us.