All you do is find a few pictures, runoffs, or stencils of things you want to do and use them for things like puzzles, relays, or matching games. A few things I've done are as follows: Foamie fun pizza, take a sheet of brown foam create a personal or larger size pizza crust, if you want to you cdo an inner circle of tomato sauce, and add cheese, then take some runoffs of things like bell pepper slices, mushrooms, pineapple, pepperoni, etc... and draw the outlines as you like them placed on your pizza, cut out the holes for the foamie toppings to go into with your x- acto , then cut your ingredients (scissors will cut the foam also, but use the x - acto for inside a puzzle pattern) stuff it in a ziploc and you are set, other toppings for fun are (silly stuff- worms, bugs, mice, etc... Candy stuff - m & m's, jolly ranchers, chocolate chips, etc...). I also used stencils and just cut out about 3" x 4" animals then with scissors I made it a 2 piece interlocking puzzle, use different shapes, but make sure they interlock or pieces get lost easy. For the matching I took a frog stencil and traced about 5 different colored frogs, then I traced 5 lily pads cut them out put them in a ziploc and it was an instant attention getter. One last thing I did was take a butterfly pattern with 4 shaped holes on the wings and I cut out 5 different colors. then i used the x- acto to cut out the holes, I put 1 butterfly and 5 non-matching colors in a ziploc and made it a relay game, who can get all four shapes in his/her butterfly first (beware not all pieces come to a perfect fit as nobody can cut the pieces out of each butterfly exactly the same :) and when the game is done they can use them as puzzles! *Do Not let children use an x-acto knife!