Discover the Benefits of Wooden Puzzles for Children’s Cognitive Development
As young children grow and develop, they have growth spurts. During these times, their bodies and minds develop at amazingly fast rates, and their appetites for wanting to know and learn to appear to be insatiable. They begin to ask lots of questions about the world around them. One way for parents to make the most of this phase is by providing their kids with educational wooden puzzles.
Kids’ puzzles offer many important benefits. They can be used to promote cognitive development during these important early years. Kids’ puzzles stimulate their natural curiosity and engage them with new problems to solve. Problem-solving and reasoning abilities are just two of many cognitive skills which are positively affected when children play with wooden puzzles. For example, when a child attempts to place shapes in their respective openings in a shape sorting toy, they use reasoning and recall to remember where each piece belongs. When a piece doesn’t fit properly, they use their reasoning ability to identify the problem and solve the puzzle by finding the piece that fits.
Wooden puzzles are a great way to introduce toddlers and preschool kids to letters, numbers, shapes, and colors. By physically putting shapes in the form of numbers, letters or color-coordinated pieces into the corresponding puzzle positions, they can become familiar with these letters before they are able to spell and with numbers before they are able to count.
Since wooden puzzles are typically designed for the little guys, the pieces are typically small enough to fit in tiny hands yet large enough for them to manipulate and handle each one. Pieces are also too large for them to fit in their mouths so there are no safety hazards. Because they are made of wood, pieces are thick and chunky, just right for little hands to grab and hold. The natural wood construction is simple by design, so young kids do not feel intimidated.
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