Kids Puzzle Room at IPP

Kids Puzzle Room

One of my proud accomplishments at IPP was to set up this puzzle room for the kids. This took a tremendous amount of effort to prepare. Bill Ritchie and I. with the help of others, came up with this format. These pictures were taken right before it opened. I was really happy with the result. I have to give a tremendous big thank you to Penny who helped me to set this up very late at night. It was a thrill for me to see it all put together!

ThinkFun Game Club

This table was a display of all the six games from the Game Club Set #1 plus the two new ThinkFun games from Set #2. Here the kids could sit and play the games and explore the new ones. Everyone loves these games.

SNAP Math Fair Projects

We shipped to Australia 8 SNAP Math Fair Projects from students in Collingwood! These were projects done by kids from my local Admiral and Nottawa schools. They were a great display of what SNAP Math Fairs are all about. I was very proud that Brandon's project made the cut. It is the first one on the left with the backboard made from comics.

Puzzle Story

The puzzle story was an incredible display, a project that Bill and I began over a year ago. I must make some special thanks to people who helped us make this possible. Many thanks to Saul Bobroff and George Miller who helped us by making the wooden puzzles. The wonderfully talented Amanda Manning who created the absolutely beautiful illustrations for the story. My dear friend Michelle Fleming and the kids at her Georgian Bay School of the Arts for painting and decorating all the wooden puzzles. The puzzle story is a story that I wrote (with much help and guidance from Bill) about two kids searching for Mathemagical Knowledge and its a spoof of Wizard of Oz. Its also a tribute to Martin Gardner as the two main characters' names are Rengard and Mintra (jumbles of Martin's name). Creating puzzle story was an incredible journey that was indescribable to watch come to life. A very fun project indeed!

This was the second year that Bill and I put the kids puzzle room together at IPP. I wished Bill could have been there to see it put together, I know he would have loved it. (Bill was not able to attend IPP this year.) I loved doing these puzzles with the kids from IPP as well as the big kids too! One of my fondest memories this year was sitting with the great Harry Nelson working on some weighing puzzles together. I am a very lucky girl!