Did/does your toddler like puzzles? Dd wants to like them...but she has not figured out how to work on them. I am struggling with teaching her how to "do" a puzzle. I have tried explaining the flat sides go around the edges, and I have told her to look at the box to get ideas of what the picture should look like when it is complete...but she doesn't quite get it. She loves trying, but I am hoping for some success before she gets frustrated...any tips?
(coming in late here)
I've decided that, at least with my three kids, I can't really teach them how to do a puzzle --- the process needs to be something that they figure out for themselves. This may be because there are so many ways to put a puzzle together that what works for me could be opposite to what works for someone else.
I suggest giving her easier puzzles and letting her move to more complex ones. We had a 4 piece puzzle of a duck that my DD played with when she was 1-ish. She picked it up one evening and struggled and struggled to put it together. She was struggling so much that I was starting to feel uncomfortable on her behalf and was afraid she was going to have a meltdown. She didn't want any help.
To my relief, she finished the puzzle by herself. To my surprise, she then immediately dumped it out and started over. She didn't stop doing that puzzle until she'd mastered it! I was amazed. But the key thing was that she had to learn it herself.
Val
