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CAN$33.95

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Ages: 2 Years and Up

Wooden Sailboat Toddler Puzzle - 7 Piece Made by GRIMM'S Wooden Puzzles in Germany

Sailboat Wooden Creative Toddler Puzzle by Grimm's European Toys. The sailboat creative wooden toddler puzzle by Grimm Spiel and Holz Design, is made from hard wood (Alder) and colored with water based paints and dyes. The sailboat puzzle consists ...

CAN$75.00

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Fish creative puzzle and marble game (marbles not included) Made by Grimm's Spiel und Holz Wooden Toys in Germany

The Grimm's Fish Puzzle is a great creative animal puzzle. 22 Chunky, colourful wooden pieces in a wooden tray for build and creative play. Build the puzzle, play with the chunky puzzle pieces as building blocks or add a bag of wooden marbles for ...

CAN$13.95

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35 Wooden Marbles in 7 colors (in small bag) Made by Grimm's Spiel und Holz Wooden Toys in Germany

These 35 Colourful wooden marbles in 7 colours by Grimm's Spiel and Holz are great as marbles, to use in your advent spiral (counting down the days to Christmas) or in your birthday ring as decoration. Use it in your marble run or combine it with ...

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Wooden Car Puzzle - Toddlers, 8 Piece Made by GRIMM'S Wooden Puzzles in Germany

Car Wooden Creative Toddler Puzzle by Grimm's European Toys. The car creative wooden toddler puzzle by Grimm Spiel and Holz Design, is made from hard wood (Alder) and colored with water based paints and dyes. The car puzzle consists of 8 colorful ...

CAN$89.95

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Butterfly Puzzle, 37 pieces wooden creative puzzle Made by Grimm's Spiel und Holz Wooden Toys in Germany

The Grimm's Large Butterfly Puzzle will inspire and challenge children and adults alike. This wooden, creative animal puzzle has 37 chunky, colourful wooden pieces in a wooden tray for build and creative play. Build the puzzle, play with the ...

CAN$85.95

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Circle Rhombus wooden creative puzzle (Kreis Raute) Made by Grimm's Waldorf Toys in Germany

Grimm's Circle Rhombus i288 pieces fo creative puzzle building fun - perfect for expert puzzle builders! The perfect gift for creative adults and older children, Circle Rhombus wooden creative puzzle (Kreis Raute) is made in Germany from hard wood ...

CAN$59.99

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Triangle Square Circle - 30 Piece Wooden Building Blocks Made by Grimm's Spiel und Holz Design in Germany

Grimm's Triangle Square Circle wooden building blocks cosists of 30 wooden puzzle plocks that fit together to form either a triangle, circle or square. Children can piece together the 3 shapes from the 30 wooden blocks or the blocks can be used for ...

CAN$39.50

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Farbspirale - Colored Spiral Circle Wooden Creative Puzzle Made by Grimm's Spiel und Holz Design in Germany

Grimm's Farbspirale - Colored Spiral Circle is one of Grimm's most popular wooden Creative Puzzles Farbspirale is a puzzle for connoisseurs and include 72 wooden puzzle pieces inside a wooden tray Farbspirale - Colored Spiral Circle puzzle is made ...

CAN$95.00

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Ages: 10 Years and Up

Chameleon Wooden Creative Puzzle - 50 Pieces Made by GRIMM'S Wooden Puzzles in Germany

Camelion Wooden Creative Puzzle by Grimm's European Toys. The Chameleon is a challenging creative wooden animal puzzle by Grimm Spiel and Holz Design, made from hard wood (Alder) and colored with water based paints and dyes. The Chameleon Wooden ...

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Ages: 4 Years and Up

Mosaic Triangle: 100 Pieces - Small wooden creative puzzle, Made by Grimm's Spiel und Holz Design in Germany

A beautiful wooden Mosaic Triangle creative puzzle by Grimm's Spiel und Holz Design. Creative puzzles - the color of the rainbow in geometrical basic forms. Children get to explore all the creative possibilities the triangle provide them with the ...

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Apart from the obvious fun of building puzzles this activity is sure to develop several functions of the brain simultaneously.
Most notably developed in this process are the abilities to reason, deduce, analyze, sequence and the development of logical thought and problem solving skills.

Read More on why Puzzles is important for children's development and how to select Puzzles for your child.

Lets look at the the skills applied and developed while building puzzles in more detail:
* Cognitive skills:
Problem solving, reasoning, seeing whole-part relationships,concentration and focus
* Visual Acuity:
The visual ability to resolve fine detail
* Fine motor skills: Manipulating the pieces of the puzzle to make them fit, development of the pincher grasp
* Hand-eye coordination: Being able to place or remove a piece in/from the puzzle without breaking the puzzle, manipulating the puzzle pieze to see if it fits
* Recognise shape and size
Puzzles help in the development of math and pre-reading skills by enhancing the ability of children to recognize shapes and sizes as well as the skills applied as discussed in the cognitive developmental skills above.
* Social skills:
Working in a team to finish a puzzle develops a lot of social skills at once, learning to ask for a particular piece to be passed, learning to handle frustration when a piece does not fit and the self-control needed to leave the puzzle alone between working on it

Guidelines for selecting age appropriate Puzzles for your child.

Age: 1 to 1.5 years

Simple wooden lift-out puzzles with big knobs that little fingers can grasp and manipulate with ease and matching pictures on the wooden base and puzzle piece are a great for introducing puzzles to babies and toddlers. Try choosing a puzzle that features pictures on a topic that interests your child - this not only helps them to match the puzzle piece to the correct space on the board but also provide something for the two of you to discuss while playing puzzle. Some wooden puzzles also comes with different textures on the puzzle pieces that enhances tactile stimulation.

Age: 1.5 to 2 years

Every child develops at his/her own pace - these are just guidelines and you are ultimately the judge of how difficult a puzzle is suitable for your child. The number of pieces or complexity of the puzzle picture your child can handle is not just determined by your child`s age but also by how often your child has been exposed to puzzle play. If your 3 year old has never played with a puzzle before then giving the child a 6 or 9 piece puzzle is only going to lead to a lot of tears and frustration. Give your child a chance to establish the basics of puzzle building by starting off with an easy puzzle with a simple picture and allow your child to set the pace for introducing puzzles with more pieces or more complex pictures.

Your toddler's first jigsaw puzzle should consist of 2 chunky puzzle pieces that have clear pictures and are easy for little hands to grasp and manipulate.
When your toddler start building 2 piece puzzles with ease - start introducing puzzles with 3 and 4 piece puzzles.

Age: 2 to 3 years

Your 2 to 3 year old will most probably be able to manipulate puzzles from 3 or 4 pieces (2 year old) to 9 pieces (3 year old). Try and get progressive puzzles that are sold in a box set - usually the box contains one or more 4 piece, 6 piece and 9 piece puzzle. You can also introduce wooden puzzles without knobs and without pictures on the puzzle board so that they can start to match puzzle pieces based on shape and size (wooden puzzles) as opposed to pictures.

Age: 3 to 4 years

At around 3 years of age you can start introducing cube puzzles. Remember that every cube has 6 pictures on them - 6 possible matches. If you are just introducing cube puzzles start with a simple two cube puzzle that features clear easy to match pictures before progressing to something more complex. Your 3 year old will most probably be ready for a 9 piece puzzle and by the time your little one is 4 he/she can most probably handle a 20 piece puzzle with an easy uncluttered picture.

Age: 4 to 5 years

Your 4 to 5 year old would like puzzles that range from 24 pieces to around 49. If they have been playing with cube puzzles they may already be at the point where they enjoy playing with 12 cube puzzles.

Age: 5 to 18 years

Once your child is in school you can introduce cardboard puzzles and from here on the number of pieces does not play as big role as the complexity of the picture. Again - start with an easy clear picture with little fine detail and then your child can graduate to puzzles with more complex pictures and more detail.

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