Take a picture which has a good many figures in it, and color it, or leave it plain (though coloring will be best); or a small bright chromo can be used. Paste it carefully on a piece of stiff pasteboard the same size : an old box-lid will often answer perfectly well. Let it get thoroughly dry, then cut it into pieces not over two inches long or wide, and in any shapes you choose. Mix the pieces all together, and then try to put them in such order as to make the picture again. A map can be treated in the same way, and you will have just as amusing and interesting a "dissected " map or picture as can be bought in the toy-stores. "Sliced letters" may be made on the same plan. Cut large letters from advertising-bills or newspaper-headings until you have enough, then paste carefully, and, when dry, first cut out, and then cut each one in two or three pieces. To put them together is a game for little children who have just learned their letters.