Artifact Analysis: Puzzle
Description:The artifact is many pieces in different shapes and sizes. All of the pieces fit together in a certain order to create an organized picture. The pieces are made of cardboard cutout into different shapes that link together. On the top of this cardboard is a single piece of the picture that will eventually be a part of the larger picture. All of these pieces are contained inside of a box so that the pieces will not be lost or be separated from the other pieces. The box shows the size of the puzzle and the number of pieces that it contains. It also depicts what the finished puzzle will look like after all the pieces have been correctly linked together.
Interpretation: A puzzle is generally used as entertainment and fun for people of all ages. However, when using a puzzle, it also causes people to think, be creative, and use problem solving skills. People that use puzzles are most likely problem solvers that enjoy a challenge, the type of person that would find entertainment from a word scramble or crossword. It is a toy that uses logic as the source of fun. Those that created the puzzle were probably fun loving people that enjoy creating structure from chaos and like to design things from small pieces. The ability to create a picture using only small pieces of the whole is intriguing to them. A puzzle combines creativity and fun with logic and learning.
Quilt Square:The quilt square that I designed had five pieces of the puzzle on it. The puzzle represents the culture as a whole because the children use puzzles for several ways. Not only does it serve as a fun toy, but also as a creative learning tool that forces the mind to look at things abstractly and to develop something organized from chaos. The puzzle shows the children need to learn and to play in order to develop. On each puzzle piece is one of the five senses, a hand (touch), a nose (smell), a mouth (taste), an ear (hearing), and on the fifth piece there should be an eye, but there is not. This represents how one can still develop as well as any other person but may have to overcome personal difficulties due to a disability.
Free Style:Whether blank, or an activity already in place, the novelty or the creative side causes one to want o “play” with it. The learning occurs because the brain wants to see what the outcome will be! Free Style can be any shape so opportunities are unlimited.
IDEAS: be open and create, let the kids create too!