WHAT ARE THE BENEFITS OF THE PUZZLES AND THE MOST APPROPRIATE FOR EACH AGE

There are cardboard, rubber, wooden, in three dimensions, we can make them with paper, for small children, for the elderly ... If you still do not have puzzles at home, it is time to get them. The puzzles are great entertainment and very beneficial for the development of small.

Playing with to order their pieces, make the children look at them, observe and analyze them by comparing them with the rest to see where they fit according to their shape, color, drawing ... They make a game of abstraction, prediction, concentration ...

If you don't have the model to build before you, the puzzles exercise the child's visual memory, since they have to remember what the drawing was like now they have to recompose. However, for the little ones to have the model in front, even if it is the first times they assemble it, it will help them to elaborate the puzzle.

Together with concentration and memory, the puzzle also helps the child to work the fine motor skills of the fingers through the manipulation of the pieces and the grip of the clamp.

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It has also been shown that puzzles enhance spatial and mathematical skills, improve visospatial intelligence or the ability to think and perceive the world in images, which is an important predictor of capacity building for science, technology, engineering and maths.

Building a puzzle demands logic and some psychomotor development, so that the little ones are not ready yet, but we can give them large pieces that fit and go on testing ... With them we can play to build their first puzzles, and the kids will also like to play as a family.

Next we will see how after two or three years we can start with puzzles of increasing complexity, starting with few and large pieces, and increasing the number of pieces as we see that they are able to solve them.

You have to keep in mind that the three-dimensional puzzles they may be more complicated for the little ones, if there are more images in the cube that confuse them (to form several drawings). But after all three you can try our help.

Some tips to help them assemble the "flat" puzzles is to start at the corners, the edges and finally the center of the drawing.

The best puzzle for every age

Let's see how many pieces are recommended for each age, although we must bear in mind that if the child is accustomed to assembling puzzles it may require more complexity before; On the contrary, others will need more time if this is the first time they face a puzzle.

From zero to two years, less than four pieces. The best thing when you are babies is to show him a two-piece puzzle that is made, then separate the pieces and teach him that in order to reappear that initial image he has to join the pieces.
From two to three years the level of difficulty can be extended, between four and 12 pieces.
From three to four years, between 12 and 22 pieces. Here you can use letter and word puzzles if you already begin to recognize the alphabet.
From four to five years, between 22 and 48 pieces.
From the age of five, children who have already played with puzzles can face games of more than 50 pieces.
Of course, there is no limit to continue to be fond of puzzles, maybe adults are those who make "pictures" of a thousand pieces ...

There are puzzles of very different drawings, of your favorite characters, also photographs ... And we can make puzzles simple by cutting out images of magazines, for example, or of some drawing made by them and that they want to use for that purpose.

And although it is a great game to perform alone, because it exercises concentration as we have seen, it does not mean that you can not play in a group, with family or friends, it stimulates collaboration and simply makes us roast a good time together .

In short, children's puzzles have many benefits for children, they are fun and entertaining, they help them in concentration, memory, motor skills ... What else can we ask for? Let's look at the topics they like best, the most appropriate number of pieces, and assemble puzzles with them.

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