We choose puzzles: for children — benefit, for the whole family — entertainment

It is worth buying puzzles in order to develop fine motor skills of hands, attentiveness and perseverance in children, and also allows you to distract them from the TV and computer. And for adults, this activity can give both training for the mind and relaxation after a hard day's work. Puzzles allow you to have a good time with friends or family.

But they must be selected taking into account the interests of those who will collect them. There are many varieties of puzzles of various types and levels of difficulty available for sale. In this article, we will look at the various parameters that you should pay attention to when choosing puzzles.

Puzzles for the little ones usually consist of 10-15 elements and Made from cardboard, not plastic

Age and difficulty level

One of the advantages of puzzles is that they can be interesting for almost any age. As soon as the child begins to recognize shapes and colours, he is ready to play puzzles. As the child grows older, the tasks become more difficult — the number of details increases, the way they are connected becomes more complicated. Puzzles for teenagers and adults require extra care and may not be ordinary, but three-dimensional. So that the process is not boring, you need to select tasks in accordance with his age and level of development. The recommended age is usually indicated on the box or on the description of the model on the Internet.

The smallest should start getting acquainted with puzzles, whose elements are large enough and comfortable for children's hands (especially since too small elements at this age can be accidentally eaten). There are few details in such puzzles — less than ten. At the same time, they are emphatically bright and colorful to attract the attention of the child. As for the subject, at 2-3 years old, children like to add images of objects that are well known to them, animals or fairy-tale characters.

Gaining experience in simple pictures, the child begins to move from trial and error to finding his own approaches to the selection of parts — by colour, shape, etc. If you notice such a change in behavior, then you can move on to more complex puzzles. A four- and five-year-old child can easily cope with several dozen elements, as long as the image is bright and clear.

Most puzzles are designed to be collected on a table. There are sets with large elements that are assembled on the floor

For schoolchildren, simple tasks will be uninteresting — for them it is worth buying puzzles with more than a hundred elements. Adults who don't mind spending several hours folding some masterpiece of painting will appreciate models with hundreds of details. The most popular pictures of 300, 500, 750 and 1000 parts. Also note that it is worth choosing the number of elements and the degree of complexity of the puzzle not only by age, but also depending on individual abilities and experience in this type of entertainment.

Interest circle

Do you want the puzzle to be interesting to all participants in the process? Choose your image carefully. Adults are unlikely to want to spend an evening folding a picture with a princess from a fairy tale, while children will find boring puzzles with a reproduction of the Mona Lisa. But the problem is easily solved: thanks to the impressive thematic variety of puzzles, among them you can easily find an option for every taste.

Animals — a classic theme for prefabricated puzzles

For example, if your child is delighted with a recently watched cartoon, give him a puzzle with a character from it. If the kid loves to play the railroad, then he will be happy with the image of the train. In addition, puzzles can be used for educational purposes. Puzzles with the alphabet, animals, geographical maps will help the child gain new knowledge.

Adults, in turn, can find puzzles according to their individual interests and hobbies, or simply put together beautiful images for aesthetic pleasure. Powerful cars, majestic landscapes, beautiful animals, ancient castles — this is just a small part of the topics that puzzles are dedicated to. There are very beautiful images, for example, from the manufacturer Ravensburger. By the way, sometimes a puzzle comes with a frame in which you can place a folded image and hang it on the wall.

Varieties of materials

Cardboard is the most common puzzle material. However, it is not very suitable for the smallest children, who can bend or tear the cardboard elements. For kids, wooden or special soft puzzles are produced, as well as mosaics, which also develop fine motor skills of fingers, colour perception and creativity.

It will be interesting for older children to collect three-dimensional puzzles — animal figures, models of equipment, etc. made of plastic. Such puzzles are usually labeled as 3D (for example, airplanes) or 4D (architectural objects like the Eiffel Tower and even entire urban landscapes from the 4D Cityscape brand in the form of large cities (Paris, Rome, London, etc.).

4D Cityscape Game of Thrones Westeros lets you assemble the world map of the popular saga

There is also such an unusual category as magnetic puzzles. Its elements have magnetic properties, which allows you to assemble the puzzle on any metal surface, including a vertical one — a refrigerator, system unit, etc. a certain order magnetized chips of animals and sights.

Magnetic puzzles will give new impressions to those who are already tired of ordinary ones

In the form of magnetic puzzles, not only pictures are released, but also various puzzle games that can be of interest to both children and adults. For example, in the "Fishing" set from Melissa & Doug, you do not need to add up the image from the details, but, on the contrary, "catch" the fish using a fishing rod with a magnet float.

You can pick up puzzles or mosaics in our catalog.