It sounds like you are talking about attention to visual detail and visual search, which is slightly different from construction puzzles. From what you've said, she seems to already enjoy hands-on visual-spatial and patterning activities, but ones where she generates the pattern, rather than deciphers someone else's pattern. Perhaps she is better at deductive reasoning than inductive reasoning? If it is a visual search issue, then you may have to find something that she is interested in searching for--perhaps in the real world, rather than in an artificial puzzle. If it is inductive reasoning, perhaps mystery-type puzzles--Encyclopedia Brown, 5-minute mysteries, etc--may interest her more, with their storylines and narrative context.
