One of our favorite learning tools in our home has always been puzzles. Picture puzzles of course are fabulous for teaching them problem solving & matching up their shapes & colors, but many puzzles have an extra layer of learning to them. Puzzles have taught our daughter her US. States, a good portion of her countries & all of her planets.
We have puzzles everywhere, board puzzles, jig saw puzzles & large floor puzzles that clutter up our whole house.
The benefits have outweighed the mess.
We have been working on sight words & writing lately. Mai recognizes & can write & spell her name now. We have been trying to work on the other basics as well.
We used a blank puzzle that we have had lying around for a long time. You can purchase a blank puzzle for about a dollar at a craft store or you can just flip over your old puzzle & work on the back or paint over the front & let dry before adding in your sight words. As with most families of a small child, I am sure that you have several puzzles that are missing pieces.
Puzzle Piece Sight Words
Write out your sight word using magic markers or paint. Make a design across the pieces that you will be using to have a color & shape reference to join them back together. Make a small picture scribble of your sight word on the connecting pieces to help them understand what the word is. Mai knew right away that this was supposed to be her mama.
“Who is that Mai?”
“It’s Mama.”
“How do you spell mom?”
“M. O. M.”
We made an assortment of different words. We put each together & spelled them together. We also found another fun craft project with our extra puzzle pieces in the process. Stay tuned for our cute puzzle piece craft.
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http://tinytotsadventure.com/2015/03/20-name-activities-and-crafts-for-toddlers-and-preschoolers/
4 comments
I love this idea and we are working on the word families right now with both girls and have used a couple of creative ways to teach, but this is a new one to me. So thank you for sharing!! 🙂
Thank you Janine. We are trying everything.
What a great idea! We will do this, and I’m thinking adjusting it to simple maths too!
Thank you. That is a great idea too. I will have to do that as well. Thanks. 🙂