Improves problem-solving skills: Every time children solve a puzzle, they develop different strategies to solve it faster the next time. Puzzles help to hone critical problem-solving, strategic thinking, and logical reasoning skills.
Improves concentration and memory: One of the strategies children adopt to solve puzzles is to remember and recall how the different pieces fit. This boosts their memory. It also helps them to improve their ability to stay focused on tasks.
Puzzles can hold children's attention and keep them engaged for hours. Improves patience: Solving a puzzle is a challenge, and overcoming any challenge requires time and patience. By learning to slowly work through the puzzle, children develop patience. They also learn to not give up and keep persevering until they complete the puzzle. Stimulates learning: Jigsaw puzzles of maps, animals, plants and maps are a great way of arousing children's interest in different subjects.
They are also a great way of learning visual-spatial, collaborative, and social skills. Want to get puzzling? Start easy. Talk with your child about the picture on the puzzle before taking the pieces out. Find the corner and edge pieces first and put them in place. Look for pieces according to the shapes needed to fit a space. Last updated 30 October It is helpful to keep these puzzles in a place where children can access and clean them up independently.
Rotating the selection of puzzles will help maintain their interest. Children should also have access to puzzles that are a little bit challenging.
Working on puzzles that are a little too hard to complete independently is a great time for young children to work with peers and caregivers to build new strategies for solving puzzles. Puzzles that are much too difficult may be a source of frustration for children and their caregivers.
Young children may dump the pieces and mix multiple puzzles together because they have a difficult time engaging with puzzles that are too hard. Caregivers and teachers may wish to keep the majority of these more challenging puzzles in a location where children can access them with assistance and a smaller, rotating selection available so children are encouraged to build their skills with assistance.
Rebecca Swartz. Rebecca Swartz, an early learning specialist for IEL, completed her doctorate in human development and family studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her goal is to help parents and early educators by providing evidence-based resources on child development and early learning.
This provides information on research that explores spatial skill development at a young age through means such as spatial assembly tasks, block building, and learning about geometric forms. A puzzle teaches young children about the concept of a 'whole' and that each piece is a fraction of the bigger picture.
It also helps develop basic skills such as shape recognition, concentration, goal setting, patience and a sense of achievement, which will stand children in good stead for school. Puzzles help develop hand-eye co-ordination and fine motor skills due to the precise nature of matching each piece exactly. Some correlation can be seen in a child's ability to complete puzzles and their handwriting skills as they have to work carefully.
Critical thinking, judgement, visual-perceptual skills and memory are all tested with a puzzle. There is only one way to complete a puzzle and it can not be cheated.
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