These days, it is all too easy to get caught up running from one place to the next. Your son needs to get to soccer practice, while your daughter is going off to a ballet or gymnastics class and yet another is out spending time with friends. Unfortunately, in most families it's difficult to get everyone around the dinner table let alone spending quality time talking and having family fun.

One of the things that you quickly discover is that family fun can seem like a great concept but it's often really difficult to fit into how a modern family works. Just because it may seem as though there are few, if any activities that the whole family can enjoy together, it is still essential for any family to spend some quality time together, talking, learning and simply finding out what's going on.

When you're scheduling a family fun night, you need to recognize a number of things. First, playing video games isn't really interactive and conducive to great conversations the way that playing board games are. Similarly, watching TV or even having a DVD movie night isn't going to help you to start talking and really stay connected with your family. When you're planning a family fun night, what you need is a focus for everyone's attention, a centerpiece for the evening which allows and even promotes conversation. One answer is a Picture Jigsaw Puzzle.

Family Picture Puzzle

Picture Jigsaw Puzzles have been bringing families together for hundreds of years and are still as intuitive and fun as they always have been. What has changed is the availability of Personalized Jigsaw Puzzles — picture puzzles with your own family photo as the puzzle. What better way to stimulate family conversation and have fun at the same time! A photo of last year's family reunion, or your son's birthday party; maybe a family portrait or even a picture of mom and dad in fancy dress are all great ideas for your personal picture puzzle. The fact that you can use your own photo really adds to the family fun aspect of this pastime. Having a half made puzzle lying around the house is a great way to get kids and adults to stop for a while and share some quality time.

Photo Collage Puzzles from your own Photos

But why only use one photo when you can have a photo collage puzzle created from multiple pictures. Photo collage puzzles can showcase great times that you've had as a family such as last year's summer vacation — what a great way to get the family talking about this year's vacation plans and have fun at the same time. You can also use a custom-made jigsaw puzzle to surprise the rest of the family with news of a special event, an exotic vacation or major purchase. What better way to surprise the kids with a Disney vacation than to organize an evening solving a picture puzzle with a Disney theme.

When you are looking for a great way to get the family talking; an activity that everyone can enjoy during a family fun night; something that will keep all ages involved from kids to grandparents, check out a Personalized Picture Puzzle. After all, picture puzzles that are focused on your family are an ideal option to get everyone talking and sharing — a great way to bring the family together and have family fun at the same time.

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