Sewing a Simple Soft Educational Children's Puzzle Mat

Step 1

When children arrive in a home, parents immediately sprout wings, and every mom wants to give her child the best and safest of everything. You can talk and debate a lot about child development. I suggest putting your cutting and sewing skills to work to make a beautiful and, most importantly, useful puzzle mat that will come in handy for a child of any age.

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Step 4

You can use this simple little diagram as a basis, or draw something similar with different dimensions (it's all completely up to you🙂). Draw a square in the shape you need and divide it into equal parts (there should be 9 or more of them, depending on the size of the future puzzle and the difficulty of assembling it). In this case, there are 9; I decided to draw the rounded puzzle tabs by tracing the rim of a half-liter jar.

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Step 6

I didn't find a large piece of cardboard at home, so I used whatever I could get my hands on for the pattern base. Draw your puzzle and cut it into pieces.

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Step 9

I had several cuts of fleece fabric, but you can use any other material. I think that if you decide to use upholstery fabric, the puzzle pieces will last forever🙂. Cut out the pieces. It's important that there are two of each piece (a top and a bottom). Additionally, cut a strip or strips 7–8 cm wide (these will be the sides of the puzzle pieces). Don't forget to leave 1–1.5 cm seam allowances.

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Let's move on to sewing the pieces. Sew the side strip to one puzzle piece, and only then stitch the other piece on. It is important to leave a small opening for stuffing the cushion. Then turn it right side out. You will get something like this.

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Step 13

Since we are sewing soft puzzle pieces, you can use foam rubber, polyester batting, or hollowfiber as stuffing. For a puzzle this size, I used about 1600 grams of hollowfiber.

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Step 15

Sew the stuffing openings closed, and we can hand our puzzle pieces over to the happy kids!

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Step 17

And if the little ones have already grown up, these cushions can be used as decor.

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