Roots and Fruits

Description

The “Ever Popular” Root Vegetable is paired with our newest Fruit Tree Puzzle.

Root Vegetable Puzzle:
I designed this puzzle with all of the under-appreciated root vegetables in mind. (minus the carrot – the carrot always get all of the glory). Anyway…back to the description.. Root vegetables are an important part of our diet and it can be challenging for a child to visualize what they look like when they are growing ‘in the ground’.
This delightful and colorful puzzle features a carrot, turnip, radish, potato and beet. The potato sits under the ‘ground’ and all of the other veggies are showing their tops above the ‘ground’. Each of the veggies (minus the potato) are complete with green yarn to create the leaves/stems. I also wanted to show the relative difference in shape, size and color of these 5 root vegetables. The puzzle is perfect for little hands as it is easy to pick up the pieces and fit them into the ‘dirt’.

Veggie Puzzle is approximately 11.5″ x 3″ x 1″

Fruit Tree Puzzle:
I designed this puzzle to compliment our Root Vegetable Puzzles. Fruits are an important part of our diet, and can be difficult for children to visualize how our food grows and where it comes from.
This delightful and colorful puzzle features a fruit-bearing tree ‘growing’ an apple, orange, peach, plum, pear, lemon and lime. I also wanted to show the relative difference in shape, size and color of these 7 fruits. The simple puzzle is perfect for little hands as it is easy to pick up the pieces and fit them into the tree.

Each puzzle is hand/machine cut and stained with various non-toxic paints and stain, and finished with a coating of food grade mineral oil. Since each puzzle is hand finished and every piece of wood takes stain differently, variations in size, shape and color are to be expected.

Fruit Tree Puzzle is approximately 10.25″ x 9.75″ x 1″