Thursday, August 1, 2013

Photo Cube Puzzle


Materials:
* 8 wooden blocks 1 1/4" x 1 1/4"
*12 photos 2 1/2" x 2 1/2"
*Photo safe adhesive
*Scissors
*Ruler
*Pen

Directions:
*Arrange the eight wooden blocks into a cube with dimensions 2 blocks x 2 blocks x 2 blocks.
*Select a photo and carefully divide it into four 1 1/4" x 1 1/4" squares.
*Cut out the squares and glue them to one face of the cube so that the pieces line up to form the original image.
*Repeat the process for another photo and glue the pieces to a neighboring face of the cube.  Make sure the first and second pictures are facing the same direction.
*Repeat the process for another photo and glue the pieces to the top of the cube.  Let dry.
*Once the three faces have dried, carefully flip the cube upside down.  Repeat the above procedure for the remaining sides of the cube.  Let dry.
*Turn the cubes so that the photo covered sides face toward the center of the cube.  One quick way to do this is take the top and bottom halves of the cube and swap their positions, then take the left and right halves of the cube and swap them, and finally take the front and back halves and swap them.  You should be left with a blank cube.
*Cut up and glue pictures to the blocks following the above procedure.
*Now you can swap between the two photo cube arrangements.  It's like having two photo cubes (although you can only use one at a time).

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