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?
I am late in responding to this but I was thinking about dd1 and puzzles. She started with the Melissa and Doug wooden letters/numbers/shapes type at about 12 months. She never did them one at a time though. She would dump all of them and then put them together! Once she got really good at that, she would try to put them together without using her eyes to set the piece. (She would ask me to hand her a piece and she would find how it oriented with her eyes closed! Of course these were whole figure puzzles.
When we started parts of the whole figure puzzle, she started with melissa and doug Hands, body, train. From there, she took off with regular cardboard puzzles.
She has always been a prefectionist, so when she couldn't get a piece to fit, she would toss it under her bed and say it was lost!!
She's not so much a picture puzzle kind of kid any more. She likes Mathy puzzles, crosswords, science experiemens, etc.
