This page is full of Christmas puzzles for all ages that you can use at home or in your classroom. Some are printable. Others are solvable on the computer. Some Christmas puzzles have to be ordered.
Children are often restless just before a big holiday. These Christmas puzzles ought to calm them a little. Use the puzzles to teach strategy, to form cognitive connections to geographical features on maps, to demonstrate passages from literature, or just for fun!
Click on any of the images to the right to go to that puzzle. There are also links on the right if you scroll down.
Background
The first jigsaw puzzles were expensive things cut from wood. They were made to teach geography lessons for the children of the wealthy. http://www.mgcpuzzles.com/mgcpuzzles/puzzle_history/
With the invention of cardboard at the beginning of The Great Depression, Christmas puzzles and all manner of other puzzles became fashionable. Department stores, catalogs, and local merchants gave Christmas puzzles away with purchases. Teachers ordered Christmas puzzles for their classrooms.
Most Christmas puzzles depict Christmas decorations, characters and scenes from Christmas carols and Christmas movies, or foods from Christmas dinner.
References
Fast Facts
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Relevant Fact 1
Jigsaw Puzzles were invented in London England by a map maker named John Spilsbury.
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Relevant Fact 2
The first jigsaw puzzles were designed to teach children their geography lessons.
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Relevant Fact 3
The invention of cardboard made Christmas puzzles and other holiday puzzles popular.
