Paper Plate Puzzles

After deciding that we weren't quite ready for glue yet, I searched the web for another craft that might be appropriate for an almost-2-year-old. She loves painting so when I found this activity on Laughing Kids Learn, I thought it would be perfect. I figured we'd paint both sides; bonus, an activity that takes 2 days! Coco likes things to be colourful so no "1 colour per plate" for her but I limited her to 2 colours since I thought it might be easier for her to do the puzzles afterwards.

I cut the plates in 2 figuring I can cut more pieces when she has mastered them. Funny, she had more fun walking around with the plates when they were intact than actually doing the puzzles. She'll get the 2 pieces and bring them to me and say "Maman l'aide" (help). She has trouble piecing them together. So, we painted 3 more plates that I didn't cut for her to build the puzzles in. It works a little better... Plus she now has 3 intact plates she can walk around with like before. She enjoyed painting them but I'm not sure how successful these are as actual puzzles.