The jigsaw puzzle is in the baby’s hand and can be pieced together into various patterns. This is an imaginative game, not just a simple question of fine movements. Pairing, alignment, etc. These are all more advanced skills.
In the process of playing jigsaw puzzle, the baby can know what shape can be matched with what shape and how can be aligned, which is helpful for the development of spatial cognition.
13 ~ 18 months old
More than one-year-old babies have further developed their minds and bodies in all aspects, begun to understand most of the life scenes, and the development of their brains is also advancing by leaps and bounds.
At this stage, the baby’s sense of space and imitation ability are improving rapidly, and the color recognition ability is also increasing day by day.
Can let the baby try to use jigsaw puzzle to spell out different shapes, parents can also try to guide the child to create more and more complex object relationship structure, and let the baby try it himself. Doing so can improve the spatial cognition and fine movement ability, but the focus is still to let the baby do it himself.
24 months old
At this stage, the baby’s hands-on ability and spatial understanding have been significantly improved. Playing jigsaw puzzle can enable children to rely on fine exercise ability to pinch up jigsaw puzzle fragments and put them in the right place, thus cultivating children’s hands-on ability.
Putting jigsaw puzzles in different forms can make children use their brains and hands, which is helpful for children to exercise their overall spatial awareness.
36 months old
Children at this stage can already imagine that they can know colors. The baby can identify the colors, splice and combine the jigsaw puzzles, and finally put the jigsaw puzzles into the image he wants.
Jigsaw puzzle belongs to seemingly simple toys, but contains infinite possibilities. Babies can play their various unconstrained imagination on the jigsaw puzzle. Besides imagination, it is also important to have fine movement ability (pick up the jigsaw puzzle, put it in the position where the eyes are watching, and straighten it out).
While playing jigsaw puzzle, the baby’s fine movement ability, spatial understanding and color recognition ability will be well developed.