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Puzzles are more than just placing pieces in a frame. A puzzle’s engagement of fine motor skills helps develop mental dexterity and can be a great way to introduce curricular themes and learning areas, inspiring open ended play.
With a puzzle, children are examining and working with one static image over time. In our visually busy world of on-demand still and moving images -- pics, videos, gifs, slides, movies, animations -- puzzles encourage meditative consideration of a single image.
Puzzles are also inherently errorless and self-regulating. You can get stuck with finding the right piece but there's no way to do a puzzle wrong. These built-in rules make puzzles a great opportunity for the collaboration of students of different abilities.
Display-It-All from Community Playthings
Often puzzles are kept in specific learning area but thoughtfully introducing a puzzle can reinvigorate an existing area. Also completed puzzles can be displayed and then used as an invitation for a specific theme. The Display-It-All from Community Playthings (pictured above) with its clear panel is great way to display puzzles and keep them intact. Wheels hidden behind a kickplate and display area on both sides makes it ideal for using for invitations in different learning areas.
Here are our top four puzzle applications in an early years classroom.
Multicultural Families Puzzle Set
Chunky Pieces Puzzles Set of 4
Classic Creative Puzzle Set of 4
Wooden Arctic & African Animal Puzzles
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