Holiday Puzzles
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Keep your little ones busy in the run up to Christmas with Alloprof’s fun holiday-themed puzzles. Alloprof has prepared three puzzles featuring cute Christmas scenes inspired by stories in our reading comprehension game, Book of Spells.
Grade
1-4
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The Benefits of Puzzles for Children
Puzzles are much more than a source of entertainment for children—they also offer many educational benefits. Here are a few reasons to incorporate puzzling into your leisure time and Advent calendar:
- Fine motor skills: Manipulating puzzle pieces helps develop hand-eye coordination and gesture precision, skills that are an essential part of many manual and academic activities.
- Cognitive development: When working on a puzzle, children are strengthening their memory, concentration, problem-solving, and spatial perception skills. Reconstructing complex images also stimulates their logical thinking and observation skills.
- Patience and perseverance: Puzzling teaches kids the value of patience and to not get discouraged.
- Collaboration: By tackling a puzzle with siblings or parents, children learn the value of teamwork and communication, which are important social skills.
- Confidence and self-esteem: The satisfaction that comes from completing a puzzle is a powerful driver of pride and self-confidence!
Tip: To make the puzzle sturdier, glue the printed image to cardboard before cutting out the pieces.
