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Six chunky first jigsaw puzzles of popular jungle animals. These 2 piece puzzles are perfect for little hands and includes a rhinoceros, zebra, crocodile, monkey, tiger and elephant. Puzzles are excellent tools for developing fine motor skills and ...
Beginner Pattern Blocks - Pattern and Shape Buidling Set by Melissa and Doug Wooden Toys Beginner Pattern Blocks - Pattern and Shape Buidling Set is a great gift and a safe, fun Puzzles and Brain Teasers for children ages 2 years and up. Beginner ...
Kids will have fun learning to recognize shapes, sorting and counting! The Geometric Sorting Board by Plan Toys consists of a set of four colorful geometric shapes which can be stacked together on the sturdy 10-peg wooden board. But you can't just ...
Sailboat Wooden Creative Toddler Puzzle by Grimm's European Toys. The sailboat creative wooden toddler puzzle by Grimm Spiel and Holz Design, is made from hard wood (Alder) and colored with water based paints and dyes. The sailboat puzzle consists ...
Your toddler's first clutching jigsaw puzzle - HABA Sunnyland Clutching puzzle Sunnyland features a fun picture of a house, cat, apple tree and rainbow - but there is a catch! The picture on the puzzle pieces doesn't match the picture on the puzzle ...
The popular Nuts and Bolts construction set for toddlers by Plan Toys is a real winner! Children love building different figures with this imaginative play toy, assembling and re-assembling different shaped wooden pieces with the nuts and bolts. ...
Fantasy Land Jigsaw Blocks by Haba. Your toddler and child's imagination will take off when they lay their hands on this adorable Fantasy Land Wooden Jigsaw Construction blocks by Haba. Synonomous to Haba tradition - Fantasy Blocks are of ...
Selecta Stellina is a fun mix between a puzzle, construction toy, children's peg game and sorting toy. Stellina has 1 wooden star that forms the center of the puzzle and then there are 5 arms that connect to the star and neigbouring arms like a ...
Farmer Jack and his farm vehicles - Puzzle Story Book and Game Set by Haba Toys and Games Farmer Jack and his farm vehicles - Puzzle Story Book and Game Set is a great gift and a safe, fun Puzzles and Brain Teasers for children ages 2.5 years and ...
Land of Dragons Wooden Puzzle Stacking Game by Haba. Your toddler and child's imagination will take off when they lay their hands on this adorable Land of Dragons Wooden Puzzle Stacking Game by Haba. Synonomous to Haba tradition - Land of Dragons ...
Six chunky first jigsaw puzzles of colorful vehicles. These 2 piece puzzles are perfect for little hands and includes a boat, car, train, airplane, bus and helicopter. Puzzles are excellent tools for developing fine motor skills and hand-eye ...
A Pet for Laura - Puzzle Story Book and Game Set by Haba Toys and Games A Pet for Laura - Puzzle Story Book and Game Set is a great gift and a safe, fun Puzzles and Brain Teasers for children ages 2.5 years and up. Laura would really like to have a ...
Six chunky first jigsaw puzzles featuring fun images of well known animals found in the sea. Orchard Toys' Under the sea includes 6 puzzles that are either 2 piece or 3 piece puzzles - perfect as a toddler's first jigsaw puzzles. The chunky pieces ...
Six chunky first jigsaw puzzles of family house pets. These 2 piece puzzles are perfect for little hands and includes a dog, cat, goldfish, hamster, budgerigar, rabbit. Puzzles are excellent tools for developing fine motor skills and hand-eye ...
Haba's Wooden Fire Brigade Puzzle is a great way to introduce toddlers, pre-schoolers and small children to the fun of building jigsaw puzzles. Fire Brigade is a 9 piece puzzle that features a fireman and his Fire Truck in action! The wooden ...
Wooden Blue Fraction Circles by GRIMM's Wooden European Toys Wooden Blue Fraction Circles is a great gift and a safe, fun Math Toys and Games for children ages 3 years and up. Wooden Blue Fraction Circles is made in Germany from quality Alder Hard ...
Car Wooden Creative Toddler Puzzle by Grimm's European Toys. The car creative wooden toddler puzzle by Grimm Spiel and Holz Design, is made from hard wood (Alder) and colored with water based paints and dyes. The car puzzle consists of 8 colorful ...
Learning is fun with this two-sided puzzle! Perfect for early learners, this beginner’s puzzle, featuring the tactile artwork of Clare Beaton, is fun to assemble and helps to develop early numeracy and pattern recognition skills. Featuring a land ...
Learning the alphabet is a snap! Practice your ABCs with this lighthearted, kid-friendly Alligator Alphabet Floor Puzzle! From alligators to newts to zebras, you’ll meet a menagerie of wild and crazy creatures as you put together the pieces…even one ...
Going Places Floor Puzzles are the perfect puzzle set to challenge your 2.5 to 3 year old! Kids will feel like they're really going places with these 4-in-a-box cardboard floor puzzles by Melissa and Doug! Assemble a jet plane, a locomotive, a dump ...
Six chunky first jigsaw puzzles featuring fun images of items generally found in the house. Orchard Toys' In my House puzzles includes 6 puzzles that are either 2 piece or 3 piece puzzles - perfect as a toddler's first jigsaw puzzles. The chunky ...
HABA At the Zoo with Alex is a fun first fact book featuring 5 6-piece animal puzzles and a dice game perfect for 2 to 4 children. Pre-schoolers get to enjoy an eventful day at the zoo when Alex the zookeeper shows them around and teaches them ...
Grimm's 3 Stacking Fish Wooden Waldorf Stacking Toy is a fun wooden puzzle/stacking toy for toddlers 18 months and older. Grimm's Stockfisch - 3 Stacking Fish is made in Germany from hard wood wood (Alder wood) and colored with non-toxic water ...
Selecta's Construction wooden peg puzzle features fun images that will immediately appeal to toddlers and children! A construction worker had at work, a big digger, dump truck, traffic cone and wheel burrow. The 5 wooden puzzle pieces have round ...
Quercetti Fanta Color Junior Basic Mosaic Pattern Building Set includes 48 large unbreakable colored pegs, 8 pattern cards (images on both sides - 16 designs), a transparent peg board and an ergonomic easel With Fanta Color Junior by Quercetti, ...
A great educational toy that stimulate multiple skills at the same time. The fun Matching Animals wooden play set by Plan Toys provides a creative way for toddlers and kids to match animals by shape, color and texture. The wooden animal pieces ...
Sort and count with HABA's colorful easy-to-grasp Bead Abacus! HABA's Bead Abacus is sure to become a favorite learning toy - the big balls make this toy safe for children under 3 years of age. Use the balls for threading exercises or use the ...
Haba's Convoi - A quality Wooden Toddler Pull Toy for Sorting and Stacking by Haba European Toys Five red noses of varying lengths and 20 durable wooden blocks to make up the faces and bodies of the people that forms part of this convoi. This self ...
This fire truck-shaped puzzle is ready to go with only 24 cardboard pieces to complete assembly! Small children will love the challenge of assembling this four feet long fire truck puzzle by Melissa and Doug. The puzzle features extra-thick ...
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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