6 Tips For Teaching Puzzles To Your Child

What are the tips for teaching puzzles to your child?

1. Start introducing puzzles to your child early
2. Consider trying more challenging puzzles
3. Try completing the puzzle with your child
4. Let them choose their favorite puzzle images 
5. Guide them by giving some clues and techniques
6. Come up with a puzzle competition

Puzzles help your children develop their motor skills, memory, imagination, creativity, problem-solving, and many other skills. Simply letting your kids play puzzles, also results in them interacting with others by talking about their puzzles.

It is during their childhood growth that puzzles are one of their toy best friends. And as a parent, aside from letting them do the puzzles, it’s also our task in their puzzle game to help them with the strategies. They need to be taught. This blog covers the tips for teaching puzzles to a child.

You can follow these easy, fun tips to help your kids love their puzzles more!

Start introducing puzzles to your child early

The best technique is to introduce your kids to puzzles at an early age. We have early puzzles with animals and vegetable images to pique their interests! 

They’re all safe to use! Why not purchase our product for your child and help him establish his sensory and motor skills? With our puzzle products, we ensure you that we support your kid in enhancing his self-expression, learning, and discovery! 

Teach your child the basic understanding of puzzles in a way that he’ll understand better until he becomes a puzzle lover!

Consider trying more challenging puzzles

Once your child feels the thrill of putting his puzzles back together, he’d be bored if he feels that it’s getting easier. It’s a natural behavior of a child to get bored if things get easy. What you have to do next is to level up his puzzle game by purchasing more difficult puzzles. It helps him improve his thoughts more as he thinks of new ways how to solve his new, difficult puzzle.

Try our Jigsaw Puzzle! It’s not only for entertainment but for your child’s growth and skills. It is a 96-piece puzzle that is good for play dates. Encourage your child to play with a hard puzzle until it makes him curious again to win and discover more of his skills!

Try asking him to complete the puzzle without staring at the image reference. You can also set up a timer and see how fast your kid finishes. And, you’ll see how he progresses!

Try completing the puzzle with your child

Verbally explaining to your child how the puzzle works is different from actually doing and completing the game in front of him. Why not let your child see that you can also complete a puzzle? It will make him realize that if his mother can make it then he can, too! 

Why don’t you try sitting on the floor with him? Make him feel that you’re a supportive parent by playing puzzles with him. This will also build a strong family connection.

By doing this, they will focus on you and see your technique in completing a puzzle. They will learn the next time they try!

Let them choose their favorite puzzle images 

If your child is a dog lover, purchase puzzles that have dog images. If he likes cars, find puzzles with cars in them. This is a great technique to easily catch their attention. This will help them get motivated to complete their puzzle. 

As a parent, provide your kid with some puzzles that match their likes! In that way, they’ll be more engaged and learn better.

Also, make sure to have plenty of puzzle images so that your child can be exposed to different things that could be his new interest!

Guide them by giving some clues and techniques

Just in case you see that your child is having a hard time completing a puzzle, you can help him with small clues. Remember, clues and interfering are different. If they feel stuck, try to ask him if there’s something wrong or if he doesn’t know what to do next. By doing this, you're letting your child open up and this will help him communicate his thoughts with you. Encourage him to finish the game and assist him if needed. 

Other techniques are teaching them to begin with the puzzle borders, classify pieces by objects, match the colors, and fit the connected pieces.

Come up with a puzzle competition

If your kid is getting used to completing puzzles, that’s the time you come up with a friendly competition. Let your child prove to you and others that he’s learning and discovering his skills by holding a contest between him and his family. 

It can be you, him, and his father. If he has a sibling, he can also compete with her. You’ll see how your kid progresses from the first time he completed a puzzle to how easy it is to finish one.

Key Takeaway

Puzzles are more fun if your child knows the easy techniques for him to complete them easier. Be his guide and playmate if he likes to play with you. We at Fantastic Stuff have a variety of puzzle options to choose from! At our affordable price and high-quality toy products, we like to be a part of your child’s growth by making them happy! Click here to check our toys for sale in the Philippines!