What are the benefits of puzzles for children?

 Beneficios de los rompecabezas para niños

Many people know that there are many benefits that puzzles provide to children, as they help in the development of fine motor skills and cognitive skills, and have an effective role in the development of language and social skills in children, regardless of the type of puzzle used. .  The child spends his time solving, all this will help in the development of these skills, as well as many skills that can be recognized when reading the article. These are some of the benefits that are reflected in children when they get used to solving many puzzles. :

physical skills

Solving puzzles helps children develop physical skills such as:

•    Hand-Eye Coordination: Solving puzzles requires proper hand-eye coordination to arrive at the solution, especially puzzles that require you to remove pieces and put other pieces in their place.  their hands, and they will be able to better process and act on the information they see with their brains.

• Fine Motor Skills: By moving their fingers to place the puzzle piece in the correct place, children understand the meaning of volume or area, big or small, and try to choose the correct pieces and place them in the correct place.  Squeeze them as needed, these and other puzzle-solving activities help strengthen baby's fingers and improve fine motor skills.

• Gross Motor Skills - Aesthetic motor skills can be developed through puzzles consisting of large pieces and components that are used to solve the puzzle.

Cognitive skills

Puzzles help develop a child's cognitive skills, including the following:

Problem Solving: Puzzles are a problem for children that needs to be solved, so they work hard to find the correct solution, for example, they may need to fill in a blank in the puzzle and start looking for the correct piece, and on the other hand, they will discover that there is more than one adequate way to solve the problem and will arrive at a solution. 

Memory improvement: The constant solving of puzzles keeps the child's mind constantly working and active, which contributes to improving short-term memory. When children try to remember a color, letter or piece of what they saw a while ago, they look for it to complete the puzzle, and other activities to remember, and often these activities increase the speed of the connections in their brain, making them more efficient. . 

 Language development: Children often talk about the puzzles they solved with their parents, for example, and when they exchange words and ask them to talk about the colors, for example, or about the picture they completed while they put the pieces together and ask them to they do it.  Describe that photo, and other things, these conversations will help build your vocabulary and general knowledge.

social skills

Social skills can be developed through cooperation in solving puzzles, so that the child can be given opportunities to work with others, and this makes him realize that each person has a certain way and different abilities that they distinguish each person from the other, and this diversity can add new ideas that help to arrive at the solution of the puzzle.  On the other hand, the child learns that coming to a solution with others adds more value and pleasure to winning than if he were alone.