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by Jørn Martin Steenhold
Little by little, piece by piece, puzzles help your child develop important skills. To complete a puzzle – whether it’s a five-piece peg puzzle or a one-hundred-piece jigsaw puzzle – your little Einstein must practice fine motor precision, deep concentration, and mathematical thinking, to name but a few skills. Other more surprising benefits of completing a puzzle are enhanced visual perception and improved social skills. Read on to learn more.
Highlights:
- Puzzles put your child’s mind and body to work.Puzzleshelp to:
- Develop your child’s fine motor skills and improve their hand-eye coordination.
- Improveyourchild’s ability to concentrate and stay focusedon one task at a time.
- Feed your child’s brain, especially their mathematical thinking.
- Enhance your little one’s visual perception and eye for details.
- Teach social skills,empathy,andcommunication skills when playing with others.
One Toy – Multiple Benefits
Puzzles put your child’s mind and body to work,all at once.Danish expert in children’s play,Joern Martin Steenhold,explainsthemultifoldbenefitsof doingapuzzle:
PuzzlesDevelopFine Motor Skills
Toddlers andsmall childrenexercisetheir fine motor skills when theydoPuzzles.Grasping andfiddling withpuzzle piecesactivatesthe smaller muscles in your child’shands and wrists, whileselecting and placing the individual pieces improves your child’shand-eye coordination.
PuzzlesImproveyour Child’sConcentration
To solve a puzzle, your little one mustlearn toconcentrate their attention on the task at hand.Which colour togo withat this point? Which piece did I already trywith?With puzzles, your little one can reallygetcaught upandalmostforget about time and placefor a moment– anicebrain-break from all the hustle and bustleofabusyeveryday life.
Puzzles areExcellent Brain Food
Completinga puzzle is a funway foryour child to practicebasic math skills such as categorising, spotting correlations, predicting outcomes, and decoding abstract patterns.Plus, puzzlescan’tbe cheated and with every completed puzzle, your child learnsa new set oftactics.
PuzzlesEnhanceVisual Perception
Eachpuzzle-piece is part of a bigger pictureand this teaches your little one tosee the big picture, whilestillhaving an eye for the detail.Your child’s visual perception is trained,andyour child learns to distinguish between differences in dimensions, shapes,sizes,and colours.
Puzzles TeachSocialSkills
Try doing a puzzle together with your child.The experience of reaching a goal by joint effort is an important one.In the process, your child learns to decode other people’s feelings,tobepart of ateam, andtorely on others for help and guidance.Thisnot onlypromotes your child’s empathyandintegritybut also verbal and non-verbalcommunicationskills.
So, get out your child’s puzzles andhave funwhile your little one learnsa great deal too!
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Meet our Team of Experts
One expert is an experienced family advisor who has met hundreds of Danish families. Another expert has dedicated his entire life to researching children's well-being and development through play. And some of the other experts specialise in children's motor skills, sensory integration, and learning. Together, they inspire us to provide your children with better sleep, develop them through play, and support them when they study.
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