Get Your Custom Puzzle Medals

Elevate your awards program with intricately designed puzzle medals. Each interlocking piece serves as a standalone recognition item, combining to form a significant collective award. Ideal for multi-stage events, team achievements, and fostering participant engagement. Discover the power of connected recognition.

Custom Spinning Medals

What Are These Super Fun Puzzle Medals?

A custom puzzle medal, also referred to as an interlocking or jigsaw medal, is a multi-component award where individual medals are designed to connect, forming a larger, unified image or symbolic representation. Each piece functions as a distinct award, yet contributes to a collective narrative or achievement. This innovative format offers a compelling way to mark progress, celebrate collaborative success, or encourage continued participation in a series of events.

At Cheap Lapel Pins Factory, we specialize in the design and fabrication of these sophisticated awards. Puzzle medals provide exceptional creative latitude, allowing each segment to embody unique thematic elements while contributing to an overarching design. This approach transforms traditional awards into memorable, interactive keepsakes that significantly enhance recipient engagement and program recall.

Where Can You Use Custom Puzzle Medals?

Puzzle medals are great for so many things! Because they connect, they’re perfect for events that have many parts or for celebrating teamwork. Here are some ideas:

  • Race Series (Like a marathon with different stages, or a 5K, 10K, and half-marathon series where each race gives you a piece!)
  • Team Sports & Competitions (Each team member gets a piece that forms the team logo or a victory symbol!)
  • School Challenges (Maybe for different subjects, or for completing parts of a big project!)
  • Company Goals & Team Building (Reward steps towards a big company achievement, with each department getting a piece!)
  • Family Fun Runs or Activity Challenges (Different family members get pieces that form a fun family picture!)
  • Collecting for a Cause (Charity events where collecting all pieces shows great support!)

See? They make any achievement feel like part of an exciting journey. We love helping you make these special connecting awards!

Custom Spinning Medals

How Do We Make Custom Puzzle Medals?

Making medals that fit together perfectly is like magic, but it’s really clever work! Here’s the main idea:

  • Planning the Big Picture:
    • First, we think about what the whole puzzle will look like when all the pieces are together. This is super important!
    • Then, we decide how many pieces there will be and what each piece will look like on its own, making sure they will all connect just right. It’s like designing a real jigsaw puzzle!
  • Making Each Piece (Usually with Metal!):
    • For metal puzzle medals, we often use something called die-casting. We make a special mold (like a super-detailed cookie cutter) for each different puzzle piece shape.
    • Hot, melted metal (like zinc alloy, which is great for details) is poured into these molds. When it cools, we have the basic shape of each puzzle piece!
  • Adding the Cool Details:
    • Once we have the pieces, we can make them look even more awesome!
    • Colors & Pictures: We can fill parts with bright enamel paints, or use special printers to put detailed pictures or logos on them.
    • 3D Effects: Because we use materials like zinc alloy, we can make parts of the design stick out, so it looks and feels really cool and three-dimensional!
    • Finishing Touches: We make them shiny, or give them an old-timey (antique) look, and make sure all the edges are smooth.

Our team at Cheap Lapel Pins Factory are pros at making sure every puzzle piece is perfect and fits together just the way it should. We love seeing the whole design come together, and we know you will too!

Our Process in 3 Simple Steps

design-prices

1. Approve Prices

Send your design or sketches by email. Once you’re happy with our prices, we will proceed with your order.

approve-design

2. Approve Design

We will send you an artwork of how your item will look. You can request edits until you are 100% satisfied with the design.

delivery

3. Receive your goods

Once approved, we will go to production and send it to you as soon as the products finished.

Let’s Make Custom Puzzle Medals Just Perfect for YOU!

You want your awards to be super special, and that’s what puzzle medals are all about! At [Your Brand Name], we work with you to make each piece, and the whole puzzle, look amazing. Check out these fun ways we can customize them

Custom Puzzle Medals We’ve Made!

FAQ About Custom Puzzle Medals

It’s just like a jigsaw puzzle! Each medal piece is specially shaped with edges that interlock, or fit snugly, with the pieces next to it. We design them very carefully so that when you put all the pieces from a set in the right order, they connect to form one big, complete design or picture. It’s pretty cool to see them come together!

Yes, absolutely! That’s one of the most fun things about puzzle medals. Each individual piece can have its own unique design, colors, and even shape. Maybe each piece shows a different mascot, a landmark from a race stage, or a part of your event’s logo. Then, when they all connect, they tell a bigger story or show the full picture. It gives you lots of room to be creative!

The most common material is high-quality Zinc Alloy, favored for its excellent moldability, which allows for intricate 3D details and robust construction. Alternative material options include classic Brass, contemporary Acrylic, versatile PVC, elegant Crystal, and eco-conscious Wood, selected based on design complexity, desired aesthetic, and project budget.

Puzzle medals are super special if you want to make your awards extra engaging and memorable! They’re perfect for:
Event Series: Encourage people to join every event to collect all the pieces.
Teamwork: Show how each person’s part is important to the whole group.
Collecting Fun: People love the challenge and fun of completing a set. It makes the award feel like a treasure!
Telling a Story: Each piece can represent a step in a journey or a part of a bigger theme.
They just add an extra layer of excitement and make people feel more connected to the achievement!

You don’t need to order a mountain of them! Like with many custom things, making the special tools (molds for metal, for example) costs a bit at the start. So, there’s often a minimum number of sets we can make, maybe around 25 or 50 sets. But just tell us how many you’re thinking, and we’ll figure out the best way to help. We want everyone to be able to get these cool connecting medals!

Of course, that’s our favorite part! You don’t need to be an artist at all. Just tell us your idea for the puzzle – what should the big picture be? How many pieces? Any themes or mascots? Even a simple drawing or just words is a great start. Our amazing design team will then draw up cool pictures for you to see, and it’s totally free! We’ll work with you until your puzzle design is just perfect.

Yes, that’s a fantastic idea! We can help you create custom Acrylic Display Boards. These boards can be designed with specific cutouts or holders for each puzzle piece, so when the whole set is collected, it can be displayed beautifully and securely. It makes the completed puzzle look even more impressive and like a real collector’s item. Just ask us about it when you tell us your puzzle idea!

Ready to Create Your Custom Puzzle Medals?