The benefits to puzzles

No parent will argue that child jigsaw puzzle is truly an educational toy for toddlers and preschoolers. It has been around for a long time. Yet, it's often considered to be more superior compared to most recently-developed child educational toys. This is due to the fact that puzzles are low in cost and children rarely loose interest in them.

Puzzle enhances your child's development by:

• It improves hand-eye coordination since children will have to fit the pieces together properly.
• It develops logical thinking.
• It develops pre-reading skills by enhancing the ability of children to recognize shapes.
• It helps to develop children concentration.
• It enhances social skills such as taking turns and working together

In this regard there are 3 things which have to be looked at when shopping for child jigsaw puzzles:

• The easiness to match the piece with the hole in the board (for single-piece jigsaw puzzle) or to each other (for more-than-one-piece jigsaw puzzle).
• Number of pieces.
• Durability and ease of handle

If you are a home based childcarer you could also try and aim to purchase puzzles which link in with their interests, topics and multicultral images.