DIY crafts and painting: six-sided puzzle made of wooden blocks

Here I show a DIY gift idea for children you can do yourself. Craft and draw a six-sided puzzle from nine blank wooden blocks. Homemade gifts for Christmas and the children's birthday are simply the most beautiful!

Here are six ideas for the homemade wooden puzzle. For every idea I write you a short guide.

You need:

1. At least nine untreated wooden blocks. I used those cubes.

2. Clearcoat for sealing

3. Paint and pens as desired (acrylic paints are best)

4. Glue, scissors, craft utensils, brush, …

5. twine

For each of the following ideas, the 9 cubes are bound together with a twine to form a square in order to begin the design.

Engrave a puzzle page with a soldering iron

For this side of the puzzle, I soldered animal figures into the sides of the dice with a wood engraving soldering iron. That's not as hard as it looks. You can draw the animal motives with a pencil beforehand. Make sure the motifs cross the cube edges everywhere. Set accents with a bit of golden acrylic paint.

For Harry Potter fans: Puzzle the patron of your child

To put a big animal motive on one side of the cube puzzle is an idea. Another idea is that this motive lights up at night so it can be the Patronus for your child while falling asleep.

For this I printed out a deer motif, cut it out and stuck it on the square. With the soldering iron I engraved the birds and the outline of the deer. Finally, generously apply luminescent paint to the deer and seal it with clearcoat.

Paint mermaid dandruff pattern on the wood

For the scale pattern, there are templates or you print out a graphic and make yourself a template. I painted the individual scales with acrylic paint and bordered them with golden embossing. Seal with clearcoat.

Let the name of your child be on one side of the wooden puzzle

With the embossing technique and handlettering I wrote the word “Love” on the wooden cubes. It would be even better to use the name of your child! For handlettering with Embossing you need an embossing pen, embossing powder and a hot blow dryer. I have an embossing guide here for you.

Stick napkin technique or other paper motives on the wooden cube puzzle

If you want to make it easy, stick to the motives that are already present on paper. There are the napkin technique, self-adhesive foils or craft motives that are simply fixed with adhesive. The cubes are then separated with a scalpel. Finished.