Keeping my puzzle-mad daughter in puzzles

My 2-year old daughter found a clock-puzzle in the bottom of her toy chest that we must have put in there when she was too young for it - and we discovered that she loves puzzles and is very good at them! We also came to realise how valuable puzzles are to teaching her things. Thanks to her clock-puzzle she learnt to count to 12, and can recognise all the numbers up to 12. So my second scroll saw project was an ABC puzzle with a "Itsy Bitsy Spider" theme - she loves this too and within about 2 weeks she learnt to read all the letters of the alphabet (she already knew the ABC song).

One of the biggest challenges was picking a safe colouring method. Internet searches suggested that there are very few wood paints that have been labelled child-safe but most people seemed to think Acrylics are ok, or poster paint. I don't know where to get poster pain from but I do have lots of acylics (and she doesn't put things in her mouth anyway) so acrylic it was!

Further projects have included her name and her nickname and she can now spell her nickname (still working on her full name) and my next project is going to be all the names of her direct family (she always asks me to spell them in the car repeatedly). I also have drawn out a Noah's Ark coat hooks and a different ABC puzzle that will require her to remember the order of the letters... watch this space!