Friday, May 27, 2011

Jigsaw Puzzle and Child Development

I am a jigsaw puzzle lover since i am young hence i introduce Moo Moo to jigsaw puzzle when she is merely 1 1/2 years old. I bought her a box of jigsaw puzzle which consists of 8 sets of 4 to 6 pieces each. At first, she won't have the patient to even sit down to finish 1 set hence the puzzle is used to teach her the different type of insects featured instead. Later, she started to gain interest on the ladybird image and started to work on it. However, i found that although there are merely 4 pieces for the puzzle, its quite hard for a toddler to actually put it in the correct manner.

Later on, i found a nice 12 piece puzzle during one of my visit to Tesco which cost merely RM2. Moo Moo played with the puzzle occasionally but had not really master it until recently. Moo Moo finally managed to finish the 12 piece puzzle with a little bit of guidance and hint from me. She had been playing with it every night before bedtime for the past 1 week and she will usually demand to replay at least 3 to 4 times per night.

Jigsaw puzzle is truly an educational toy for toddler. It helps to improves hand-eye coordination, develops shape/size recognition, develops logical thinking and perseverance attitude and enhances spatial relation skills and social skills.

I will definitely buy Moo Moo a new set of Jigsaw Puzzle soon.

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