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Cube Puzzle - 4 Hoek Wooden Puzzle with Templates Made by GRIMM's Wooden European Toys in Germany

Square Cube Puzzle - 4 Hoek including 3D templates by GRIMM's Spiel und Holz These wooden puzzle blocks are the perfect educational gift! A wooden puzzle and building blocks all in one. These wooden rectangular blocks are perfect for children to ...

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Riddle Me This! - Children Book with fun brainteasers Made by Barefoot Children Books in China

Riddle Me This! - Children's Book with fun brainteasers by Barefoot Children Books Riddles and Stories to Sharpen Your Wits Riddle Me This is another Barefoot Books winner with a collection of wacky riddles, witty puzzles, and zany brainteasers ...

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Spot the Dots - Addition Math Game Made by Talicor Educational Games and Toys in USA

Spot the Dots - Addition Math Game by Talicor Educational Games and Toys Spot the Dots - Addition Math Game is a great gift and a safe, fun Math Toys and Games for children ages 6 years and up. Spot the Dots - Addition Math Game is made in USA from ...

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Opposites Puzzle Cards - Learn Opposites Made by Melissa and Doug Wooden Toys in China

Opposites Puzzle Cards - Learn Opposites by Melissa and Doug Wooden Toys Opposites Puzzle Cards - Learn Opposites is a great gift and a safe, fun Early Learning for children ages 3 years and up. Opposites Puzzle Cards - Learn Opposites is made in ...

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Wooden Peg Game - Children's Game Made by Haba Toys and Games in Germany

Wooden Peg Game - Children's Game by Haba Toys and Games Wooden Peg Game - Children's Game is a great gift and a safe, fun Children Games for children ages 3 years and up. Wooden Peg Game - Children's Game is made in Germany from quality hard wood ...

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See and Spell Wooden Puzzle Boards Made by Melissa and Doug Wooden Toys in China

See and Spell is a fun wooden spelling game by Melissa and Doug Fun 3 and 4 letter words are featured on two sided cutout boards and children get to find the wooden letters that fit correctly into the cutouts to spell the familiar words. How do you ...

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HABA Mini Puzzle - Pirate Boy 48 Pieces Made by HABA European Toys in China

Ready, steady, shoot! Boys will have fun with this cute Haba Mini Pirate Boy jigsaw puzzle. This unique puzzle is designed in Germany by Susanne Krinke and measures 8 by 8 inches ...

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Rhymes Puzzle Cards - Find the Rhyming Words! Made by Melissa and Doug Wooden Toys in China

Rhymes Puzzle Cards - Find the Rhyming Words! by Melissa and Doug Wooden Toys Rhymes Puzzle Cards - Find the Rhyming Words! is a great gift and a safe, fun Early Learning for children ages 3 years and up. Rhymes Puzzle Cards - Find the Rhyming ...

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Colors Puzzle Cards - Learn Colors Made by Melissa and Doug Wooden Toys in China

Colors Puzzle Cards - Learn Colors by Melissa and Doug Wooden Toys Colors Puzzle Cards - Learn Colors is a great gift and a safe, fun Early Learning for children ages 3 years and up. Colors Puzzle Cards - Learn Colors is made in China from quality ...

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HABA 1001 Nights Magnetic Arrangement Game Made by HABA Placement Games in Germany

Haba's 1001 Nights Mosaic Set transport children to the fascinating world of the orient - join Alladin on magical adventures with this adorable magnetic placement game by Haba. Preschoolers, children (and adults) create patterns and palaces with 80 ...

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Alphabet Puzzle Cards - Learn ABC and Letters Made by Melissa and Doug Wooden Toys in China

Alphabet Puzzle Cards - Learn ABC and Letters by Melissa and Doug Wooden Toys Alphabet Puzzle Cards - Learn ABC and Letters is a great gift and a safe, fun Early Learning for children ages 3 years and up. Alphabet Puzzle Cards - Learn ABC and ...

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HABA Indian Summer Magnetic Arrangement Game Made by HABA Placement Games in Germany

Haba's Indian Summer Mosaic Set is wonderful for preschoolers, children (and adults) who likes to create patterns! This award winning magnetic placement game features 88 wooden magnetic pieces with warm colors and fascinating patterns. Arranging ...

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HABA Tier auf Tier (Animal upon Animal) Children Stacking Animals Game Made by HABA Natural European Wooden Games in Germany

HABA Tier auf Tier (Animal upon Animal) stacking animals game for kids is loads of fun! The animals want to show how capable they are at making a tall pyramid! Who will position the penguin on top of the crocodile, the sheep on top of the penguin, ...

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Magnetic box for creative magnetic puzzles - 11.8 x 11.8 inches Made by Grimm's Spiel und Holz Design in Germany

Grimm's Magnetic box measures 11.8 x 11.8. The magnetic box allows you to build your puzzle on the magnetic surface and then you can close the box and open it later for further play. Great for travelling. The magnetic box (magnetkoffer) is ...

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Grimm's Curved Waldorf Building Blocks (Montecarlo blocks) 30 Colored Waldorf Blocks in a Net Made by Grimm's Spiel und Holz Design in Germany

Grimm's Curved wooden colored Waldorf Building Blocks consists of 30 curved wooden Alder blocks in a handy net bag - ready for play. Even though building blocks are one of the oldest and simplest toys around, it doesn't take long to realize the ...

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HABA Mini Memo Game Made by HABA European Mini Games in Germany

HABA Mini - Memo Game in a tin is a memory game for 2 - 6 children. Mini Memo features appealing simple pictures that will be easy for young children to memorize and match into pairs. While playing Mini Memo - children develop patience and memory ...

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Picco Contrario - Find the Opposites Memory Game Made by Selecta Spielzeug European Toys in Germany

Picco Contrario - Find the Opposites Memory Game by Selecta Spielzeug European Toys is a memory game with a twist. Instead of looking for a match children are challenged to find the opposite of the picture on the overturned card! What is the ...

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Small Rhombus Magnetic Creative Puzzle Made by Grimm's Spiel und Holz Design in Germany

Grimm's Magnetic Wooden Rhombus Puzzle (Raute) is a fun puzzle for the whole family. Beautiful wooden puzzle pieces featuring a beautiful rainbow of colors. Grimms magnetic puzzles are like a living picture that can continually be re-arranged to ...

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Time Blocks Logical Thinking Game Made by Haba Wooden Building Blocks (T.C. Timber) in Germany

Time Blocks by T.C Timber (HABA) Wooden European Toys is an award winning game that can be played by the whole family! This educational learning game includes 100 logical puzzles with an image that must be replicated using the different wooden ...

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Canada Map Floor Puzzle, 48 Pieces Made by Melissa and Doug in China

Melissa and Doug Canada Map Floor Puzzle includes 48 puzzle pieces of puzzle building fun! Packed with information, this cardboard puzzle of Canada makes it easy to learn all about Canada. The Canada Floor Puzzle measures 2 x 3 foot when assembled ...

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Cone Sorting Stacking Toy Made by Plan Toys in Thailand

This Cone Sorting Staking toy from Plan Toys are very versatile offering your creative child many open ended play possibilities. Kids get to learn about height, depth, size, sequencing and more with this unique and charming nine-piece wooden toy set ...

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Motion - Mini magnetic puzzle travel toy Made by Grimm's Spiel und Holz Design in Germany

Grimm's Motion - Mini magnetic puzzle is great for traveling or having fun indoors and outdoors. Motion - Mini magnetic puzzle includes an Adam (in blue/green) and Eve (in red/yellow) puzzle for children to position in different poses ...

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Fish creative puzzle and marble game (marbles not included) Made by Grimm's Spiel und Holz Wooden Toys in Germany

The Grimm's Fish Puzzle is a great creative animal puzzle. 22 Chunky, colourful wooden pieces in a wooden tray for build and creative play. Build the puzzle, play with the chunky puzzle pieces as building blocks or add a bag of wooden marbles for ...

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HABA Large Geometric Shape Tack Zap Placement Set Made by HABA Placement Games in Germany

The Geo Shape Tack Zap by HABA is the pefect gift to encourage boys and girls to be creative and is wonderful for someone that already enjoy creative play! Geometric Shape Tack set consists of 100 wooden geometric shapes that kids arrange and tack ...

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Spiral Farbspirale Magentic Puzzle Made by Grimm's Spiel und Holz Design in Germany

Grimm's Magnetic Wooden Spiral Puzzle (Farbspirale) is a fun puzzle for the whole family. Beautiful wooden puzzle pieces featuring a beautiful rainbow of colors. Grimms magnetic puzzles are like a living picture that can continually be re-arranged ...

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Sevensteps - Wooden Creative Stacker Made by Grimm's Spiel und Holz Design in Germany

Let your imagination loose with this fantastic creative stacking tower by Grimm's. The Sevensteps wooden stacking tower includes 25 wooden pieces that can be stacked, twisted and arranged in numerous ways. Stack the pieces in creative ways on the ...

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Fantacolor Design (Easel Case - 280 pieces) Made by Quercetti Toys in Italy

Fantacolor Design by Quercetti Toys is a portable mosaic peg board. FantaColor Design (in an easel case) includes 3 different sizes pegs for creating and designing even better mosaics. Fantacolor Design includes 280 pegs and example to help spark ...

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Fantacolor Daisy (240 Pieces) Made by Quercetti Toys in Italy

This Fantacolor Daisy Peg Set is a flower shaped peg board with 6 storage petals for storing the six different coloured pegs. The Fantacolor Daisy mosaic peg set includes 240 pegs, in 6 bright colors (red, blue, purple, orange, yellow and ...

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Triangle Square Circle - 30 Piece Wooden Building Blocks Made by Grimm's Spiel und Holz Design in Germany

Grimm's Triangle Square Circle wooden building blocks cosists of 30 wooden puzzle plocks that fit together to form either a triangle, circle or square. Children can piece together the 3 shapes from the 30 wooden blocks or the blocks can be used for ...

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Bug Balancing Game Made by Plan Toys in Thailand

An exciting game of balance! Children will quickly discover the effect of placing the wrong size bug on the designated color spot on the balancing tree! Roll the dice, catch the bugs, put them on the tree and see how long they can stay on. The ...

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Farbspirale - Colored Spiral Circle Wooden Creative Puzzle Made by Grimm's Spiel und Holz Design in Germany

Grimm's Farbspirale - Colored Spiral Circle is one of Grimm's most popular wooden Creative Puzzles Farbspirale is a puzzle for connoisseurs and include 72 wooden puzzle pieces inside a wooden tray Farbspirale - Colored Spiral Circle puzzle is made ...

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35 Wooden Marbles in 7 colors (in small bag) Made by Grimm's Spiel und Holz Wooden Toys in Germany

These 35 Colourful wooden marbles in 7 colours by Grimm's Spiel and Holz are great as marbles, to use in your advent spiral (counting down the days to Christmas) or in your birthday ring as decoration. Use it in your marble run or combine it with ...

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Geometric Peg Board Shape Sorter Toy Made by Plan Toys in Thailand

Sort, count or stack and build with these 16 colorful easy-to-grasp blocks. The Geometric Peg Board Shape Sorter is a multipurpose educational toy allowing you the opportunity to introduce and teach multiple concepts (shapes, height and color) ...

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Apart from the obvious fun of building puzzles this activity is sure to develop several functions of the brain simultaneously.
Most notably developed in this process are the abilities to reason, deduce, analyze, sequence and the development of logical thought and problem solving skills.

Read More on why Puzzles is important for children's development and how to select Puzzles for your child.


 

Lets look at the the skills applied and developed while building puzzles in more detail:
* Cognitive skills:
Problem solving, reasoning, seeing whole-part relationships,concentration and focus
* Visual Acuity:
The visual ability to resolve fine detail
* Fine motor skills: Manipulating the pieces of the puzzle to make them fit, development of the pincher grasp
* Hand-eye coordination: Being able to place or remove a piece in/from the puzzle without breaking the puzzle, manipulating the puzzle pieze to see if it fits
* Recognise shape and size
Puzzles help in the development of math and pre-reading skills by enhancing the ability of children to recognize shapes and sizes as well as the skills applied as discussed in the cognitive developmental skills above.
* Social skills:
Working in a team to finish a puzzle develops a lot of social skills at once, learning to ask for a particular piece to be passed, learning to handle frustration when a piece does not fit and the self-control needed to leave the puzzle alone between working on it



Guidelines for selecting age appropriate Puzzles for your child.

Age: 1 to 1.5 years

Simple wooden lift-out puzzles with big knobs that little fingers can grasp and manipulate with ease and matching pictures on the wooden base and puzzle piece are a great for introducing puzzles to babies and toddlers. Try choosing a puzzle that features pictures on a topic that interests your child - this not only helps them to match the puzzle piece to the correct space on the board but also provide something for the two of you to discuss while playing puzzle. Some wooden puzzles also comes with different textures on the puzzle pieces that enhances tactile stimulation.

Age: 1.5 to 2 years

Every child develops at his/her own pace - these are just guidelines and you are ultimately the judge of how difficult a puzzle is suitable for your child. The number of pieces or complexity of the puzzle picture your child can handle is not just determined by your child`s age but also by how often your child has been exposed to puzzle play. If your 3 year old has never played with a puzzle before then giving the child a 6 or 9 piece puzzle is only going to lead to a lot of tears and frustration. Give your child a chance to establish the basics of puzzle building by starting off with an easy puzzle with a simple picture and allow your child to set the pace for introducing puzzles with more pieces or more complex pictures.

Your toddler's first jigsaw puzzle should consist of 2 chunky puzzle pieces that have clear pictures and are easy for little hands to grasp and manipulate.
When your toddler start building 2 piece puzzles with ease - start introducing puzzles with 3 and 4 piece puzzles.

Age: 2 to 3 years

Your 2 to 3 year old will most probably be able to manipulate puzzles from 3 or 4 pieces (2 year old) to 9 pieces (3 year old). Try and get progressive puzzles that are sold in a box set - usually the box contains one or more 4 piece, 6 piece and 9 piece puzzle. You can also introduce wooden puzzles without knobs and without pictures on the puzzle board so that they can start to match puzzle pieces based on shape and size (wooden puzzles) as opposed to pictures.

Age: 3 to 4 years

At around 3 years of age you can start introducing cube puzzles. Remember that every cube has 6 pictures on them - 6 possible matches. If you are just introducing cube puzzles start with a simple two cube puzzle that features clear easy to match pictures before progressing to something more complex. Your 3 year old will most probably be ready for a 9 piece puzzle and by the time your little one is 4 he/she can most probably handle a 20 piece puzzle with an easy uncluttered picture.

Age: 4 to 5 years

Your 4 to 5 year old would like puzzles that range from 24 pieces to around 49. If they have been playing with cube puzzles they may already be at the point where they enjoy playing with 12 cube puzzles.

Age: 5 to 18 years

Once your child is in school you can introduce cardboard puzzles and from here on the number of pieces does not play as big role as the complexity of the picture. Again - start with an easy clear picture with little fine detail and then your child can graduate to puzzles with more complex pictures and more detail.

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