I once had a giant poetry jigsaw made for a poetry exhibition – and children really enjoyed making the puzzle and then reading the poem that appeared.
JoArts made this fantastic jigsaw for me – but if you are artistic you can buy already made large jigsaw pieces from Etsy – here and here, for example.
Mine is double-sided – the other side has another poem on! You can make this in different colours so it’s easier to make the puzzles distinguishable from each other, or make them similar colours so the children really have to think!
There are also companies that will print your own jpeg image onto a smaller jigsaw – you could make a word doc of a poem with a picture, make a PDf of it, then a jpeg, and send it to get made into a smaller jigsaw. At the Ravensburger website you can get a 24 piece jigsaw made of your own image, out of cardboard or metal.
Make poems important and fun in as many ways as you can think of.
Poetry Roundabout 