Wooden Jigsaw Puzzle Painting

Use a children's wooden puzzle as the canvas for your next painting project. With simple images, you can create unique puzzle art for your home or as a gift.

It's not as hard as it may look, as each design uses only basic silhouette shapes. In this tutorial, I'll show you just how simple the process is.

• kids 9-piece wooden puzzle
• white primer spray paint
• silhouette images to trace
• tracing paper
• acrylic paints or paint pens
• acrylic sealer spray

Remove the nine pieces, still connected, from the puzzle's frame and spray them with the white primer.

Print out a graphic of a simple silhouette in the size you need to fit in the puzzle.

Cut out a piece of tracing paper big enough to fit under the printed silhouette graphic and place it on the still-connected puzzle.

Trace the outline of the silhouette image over the tracing paper and puzzle

Decide which colors you want to paint within the silhouette.

Then separate the pieces and start coloring the parts within your silhouette lines with paint pens or craft paint.

Go around the sides of the puzzle piece and just a little under.

You don't want too much paint on the sides; otherwise, the puzzle pieces won't fit back together.

Paint each piece within the silhouette shape a different color or in a combination that the color of one piece contrasts with the pieces next to it.

Put the puzzle together to make sure it all lines up right.

Paint the rest of each puzzle piece black.

Now put it together and spray a little acrylic sealer on it.

Visit my full post to see how I made this tree puzzle painting 😃. I also have a PDF of silhouette shapes to download.