Have you ever noticed that lively children, when they are focused on playing with puzzles, become particularly quiet?
When a child sits on the floor staring at a colorful puzzle scattered around, they are actually operating their little brains at high speed!
While concentrating on the puzzle, they also enjoy every challenge that comes with it!
The Four Major Benefits of Puzzles
When choosing a puzzle, first confirm the benefits it brings to children. The benefits of puzzles can generally be divided into several developmental directions: cognitive development, hand-brain skills, psychological qualities, and social abilities.
Puzzles and Cognitive Development
Based on neuroscience and cognitive psychology research, puzzles have core benefits for children's cognitive development, systematically constructing the neural networks in children's brains. When children work on puzzles, their little brains start to engage in feature elimination, pattern recognition, and systematic classification to solve the puzzle in front of them. In the process, they learn to recognize that a pattern with red corners must be a fire truck part! Or that the cloud piece must connect with the blue sky piece! By classifying and integrating based on color/texture/shape, they train their attention to detail and logical thinking skills.
Puzzles can also be the best teaching tools, such as the Little World Puzzle , which helps children understand our beautiful Earth! It aids children in exploring continents, countries, and their related knowledge about residents and geography. Nature Growth Process Matching Puzzles with a nature theme, each puzzle features an understanding of ecological processes in nature, allowing children to learn new vocabulary and knowledge. Body Layered Puzzles allow children to learn about body structure through playful learning, making it a very fun game experience!
Hand-Eye-Brain Skill Coordination
During the puzzle process, it simultaneously trains the left brain in logical classification, while the right hand focuses on details and organizing the overall composition. It cultivates children's cognitive abilities regarding images and pattern recognition skills, organizing puzzle patterns using dual cues of shape + color, such as connecting the colors of flowers with the aesthetic lines of flowers. Puzzles can train attention to detail and hand-eye-brain coordination.
When children transfer puzzle logic to math problems, they quickly understand application problems in their minds. This is due to their organizational and problem-solving abilities, categorizing related pieces by color and content, processing them step by step, for example: first assembling the four corners and the outer frame, then working on other parts, while being able to check for correctness and, if necessary, choose other pieces or methods.
