Pile o' Crayons

This 500 piece jigsaw puzzle was quite a challenge! It took me a while to find a way into this one. The shapes of the pieces are very similar, so I couldn't sort them by vertical and horizontal. The colors were so mixed up that sorting by color didn't help much. I didn't have much luck putting together clusters of pieces that could then be dropped into place. Much of the puzzle had to be built from the edges inward.

I finally was able to put some of the printed words together. That became the key to this puzzle. It took the better part of a week to complete.