Jigsaw Puzzle Piece

Perhaps. Did you know that almost everything children learn during the early childhood years is accomplished through play?

The toys your pre-schooler plays with are actually important tools in his or her development. And jigsaw puzzles are one of the best toys for a child’s cognitive development.

Most pre-schoolers really enjoy constructive play, especially building projects with a finished product at the end. That’s why wooden toys like jigsaw puzzles and blocks are ideal for children at this age.

Many educators today agree that the skills needed to complete a jigsaw puzzle are fundamental. The humble jigsaw puzzle can help stimulate your child’s concentration and logical thinking processes. Read the rest of this entry »

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Ingenious Educational Toys

Educational toys can enhance your child’s intellectual, social, emotional, and physical development. For preschool age kids, simple 10-20 piece wooden jigsaw puzzles or wooden blocks are a good place to start. These toys stimulate basic cognitive skills, problem-solving and hand-eye coordination.

If your child is approaching elementary school age, more sophisticated interlocking manipulative toys like Legos or more challenging jigsaw puzzles can further aid the development of these skills, and assist your child in developing patience, and a better understanding of spatial relationships. The key point to remember is that the educational value of a toy or game greatly depends upon it’s age appropriateness for the child.

At JigsawPuzzlePiece.Com we’re constantly researching educational toys, games, and puzzles to report back to our online readers the most ingenious, fun and effective educational toys and games we can find. This week we researched educational toys for children ages 3-6 and here’s our Top Pick Of The Week. Read the rest of this entry »

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The Jigsaw Puzzle Piece

One of the most powerful things you can do to get ahead in your academic life and to dramatically improve your exam results is to increase your reading comprehension and reading speed. In Japan, reading is very popular. If you were to ask any student her hobbies, chances are great that reading would be listed among them. Because of the orthography of the Japanese language, reading Japanese requires a lot of mental gymnastics on the part of the reader, and yet, or perhaps in part because of the difficulty, reading remains extremely popular. In fact you could walk into practically any bookstore and find most of the world’s best-selling books available in Japanese translation.

It’s surprising to hear reports of few people in North America are passionate readers these days, but when I hear from clients about how they approach reading it starts to make more sense. ‘Why is that?’ you may be wondering. It’s because most people set themselves up for failure in their reading by reading something straight through from top to bottom. This method is devastating to reading comprehension and your ability to remember what you read. Read the rest of this entry »

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The Jigsaw Puzzle Piece…

How does an activity as simple as putting puzzles together help your Toddler learn to read and write when he gets older? Let me break down some of the skills that a child needs in order to read and write. He will need to recognize objects, scan for objects, scanning from left to right, focus on the task for a length of time, building his attention span, eye hand control, head control, trunk control, visual motor control and fine motor coordination which includes hand and finger control. Wow, right?

When children are growing they develop control from their trunk out to their hands and feet. As you observe an infant, he works on head control first then on trunk control and finally the control of his extremities.

At the age of 12 months or so toddlers are ready to start practicing putting together puzzles. They have mastered some skills such as trunk control in sitting, head control, and some gross motor control of the arms and legs. They will also have mastered the grasp and release of larger size objects. Read the rest of this entry »

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The Jigsaw Puzzle Piece…

Did you know that almost everything children learn during the early childhood years is accomplished through play? The toys your pre-schooler plays with are actually important tools in his or her development. And jigsaw puzzles are one of the best toys for a child’s cognitive development. Most pre-schoolers really enjoy constructive play, especially building projects with a finished product at the end. That’s why wooden toys like jigsaw puzzles and blocks are ideal for children at this age.

Many educators today agree that the skills needed to complete a jigsaw puzzle are fundamental. The humble jigsaw puzzle can help stimulate your child’s concentration and logical thinking processes. Read the rest of this entry »

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