Puzzled with what toys you should buy for children to encourage learning? Don’t be. PUZZLES are superb tools for a child’s mind and cognitive development besides just being fun and providing pure, quality, engaging family time.
Benefits of Puzzle Play:
- Children learn to problem solve and develop logical, critical thinking when attempting to place a puzzle piece in its place. It only fits if properly put in the right place.
- The act of manipulating each piece, turning it and testing the fit, encourages fine motor skills. Psychologists have determined that a child’s brain development is influenced when a child can act or employ the world around them.
- Children must develop strength in the muscles of their fingers. The ability to coordinate what the eyes see, what the mind wants to do, and what the hands want to accomplish takes practice.
- Puzzles offer children development in language skills. Children learn to ask for a certain piece with color, texture, size or shape.
- Math skills are innately developed as children to categorize, organize, and arrange each piece as developed into a larger picture of life.
- Puzzles offer occasion to expand social skills. Cooperatively as children, family work together, they engage in conversation. They develop a plan to solving the puzzle, taking turns and working together.
- Tenacity is developed as a child works on a puzzle until completion. Once puzzle solved, a child feels accomplishment, which boosts self-esteem and independence.
- Deductive reasoning skills develop as child gain the ability to think abstractly as the process of trying to figure out what piece may fit in relation to negative space.
- Of all educational toys puzzles are the most versatile and well-rounded learning tool.
Peppermint Zebra is proud to represent Ravensburger, one of the unrivaled leaders worldwide in the Puzzles industry. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ravensburger) Puzzles represented are for all ages from 1 to 99+ years old. From simple 2 piece puzzles to 5000, two dimensional to three, Peppermint offers a wide variety and theme for individual and family fun.