Jigsaw puzzle has been with people for a couple of centuries. It had served as a tool for education then, but now it serves as one of the pastimes of children and families. Furthermore, presently, most some of the parents indulge their children with this puzzle to develop their cognitive skills.
It is better to introduce these puzzles to children at a young age. It is a good way for them to develop their coordination skills and physical skills as well as memory. The advantage of these puzzles goes on from preteen, teen and even adulthood. With puzzles that have more intricate color patterns and a large number of puzzle pieces, they could develop their logic and attention details, analytical skills, communication and collaboration well.
Puzzles also develop the reasoning and problem-solving skills. They may have to flip the pieces or rotate it to see if it fits with the other pieces. In this way, the problem solving skills of the children are enhanced. As the children successfully solve this problem, they would gain the confidence in exploring new and harder puzzles.
Solving jigsaw puzzles also improve the spatial skills of children. This game lets the children to visualize the whole picture of the puzzle as well as rotating the puzzle piece mentally that the puzzle pieces would fit into others. This puzzle lets the children to imagine the result of rotating the puzzle pieces together and would let them turn to abstract thoughts rather than just remaining with their concrete thoughts.
What other people failed to look into is the importance of the picture of the puzzle when it is being formed. It is yet another cognitive benefit! A great array of different designs and pictures nowadays are available in the market or on the internet. Solving jigsaw puzzles would attract the children to solve more problem solving tasks as well as other puzzles and would let them explore in the various fields of their life.
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