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I agree with Val. My daughter, who is eleven now, loves to work jigsaw puzzles. I did teach her about the frame later (when there was one) and yes, mastering that puzzle seems to be the thing for them.

My daughter enjoys the struggle. She is a "take it apart" kind of girl. She loves to explore the inside of old computers and toasters and whatever she can. All of these are puzzles.

I am hoping she will begin working on our cars soon and save us some money.

I think some just get it and some do not.
My gifted DS now 6 loved puzzels, mazes connect the dots and did not have to be taught and he would do 100 piece puzzles at 2/3.
Now my 2 year old couldn't do a 3 piece puzzle to save his life.
He just says "oh no broken" He is not ready for sure.
So the time will come when they can do them and depends on the child.

DS5 (GT) was not into puzzles until now. He'd do them, but didn't gravitate to them. He prefered (and still does) to draw, read, etc. DD3 loves them and can do them faster than DS5 could at her age, yet she cannot read, do math, etc that DS5 did at her age.