Jigsaw puzzle is a [advanced] game. Identification, splicing, combination, jigsaw puzzle, jigsaw puzzle belong to this seemingly extremely simple but contains infinite possibilities of toys.
Children use fine exercises to knead the jigsaw puzzle fragments and put them in the right place, which helps them to exercise their overall spatial awareness. This is a very complicated exercise, using their brains and hands.
Jigsaw puzzles are very helpful to develop children’s problem-solving ability, concentration and thinking ability. However, due to the variety, children’s interests, small animals or cars should be taken into account when choosing. The design should be as good as it is.
12 months old
The baby at this stage can be simply sensed by touching, looking and throwing. You can also correspond the matching jigsaw puzzle to the original position one by one, which may lead to the situation that the angle is not right and cannot be put in.
Parents don’t have to correct their children, they can put one on them, you can put one on them, demonstrate when you put them on them, and slowly guide the children.
24 months old
At this stage, children can try some new jigsaw puzzles. For example, two pieces of scattered jigsaw puzzles can be put together to form a complete pattern. The baby focuses on playing the jigsaw puzzles, and parents can talk more with the child according to the patterns on the jigsaw puzzles. For example, when the child picks up the lamb, parents can say to the child [lamb, baa baa… it says baby hello! ]
If the child soon loses interest in jigsaw puzzles, parents can also try other ways to play. For example, pour out 3 or 4 pieces of animal jigsaw puzzles, tell their names with the baby, and then the mother hides one piece so that the baby can guess which small animal is missing. You can also exchange roles, the mother closes her eyes and the baby hides one piece.
36 months old
As children get older, simple jigsaw puzzles are too easy for them. If such games are loved by children, prepare more sets of different ones. If you always work hard on the same jigsaw puzzle, of course you will be bored.
Can let children choose to play their favorite pattern jigsaw puzzle, starting from 4 pieces, to 12 pieces, 20 pieces, 25 pieces gradually increase. At the same time of completing the jigsaw puzzle, the baby’s fine movement ability, space understanding and color recognition ability will be well developed.