Puzzles

Visual Discrimination and Eye-Hand Control

As the child explores the environment, he/she becomes aware of and interested in the variety of colors and shapes in the indoor and outdoor environment. This is the time to give very simple shape and color puzzles as children love to put things inside containers, such as puzzle pieces in spaces that match.

Children Explore the World

• The use of knobbed puzzles and other toys that call for special finger and hand grips called the pincer grip that will prepare the child for writing and other fine muscle activities, while it satisfies her need to think and solve problems.
• Through early experiences with such puzzles, children can develop many useful skills: handling materials, refining movement, completing a cycle of activity, carrying out logical steps in order, solving problems. There is a built in control of error in puzzles so the child can judge for herself, without the help of another person, if the work has been done correctly.