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 I was just curious. My son wound up loving that one, but initially found it tougher than average because of some of the ambiguous patterns (sections on the whale body, etc.). I was hoping your daughter would like it because the shape might make it easier than a squarer one, the subject matter is fun, and it's really big. It's starting to grow on her. We did it again today and got a lot farther before boredom set in. But the subject is pretty cool and when she's done with it she loves to run across it and pretending she's swimming in it. I took DS 2.5 to register for preschool yesterday. During the tour the director was showing us the puzzle area. The hardest puzzles in the early classroom were 8 pieces! I asked if they had harder puzzles and she said they had 12 and 24 piece puzzles in the older classrooms. I explained that he could do 48+ piece puzzles and she pretty quiet for a moment and then said that she would make sure they got some for him for when he starts in the fall. So nice to have an accomodation made without making a big deal about it.
That got me to thinking about how rare it is for toddlers to do advanced puzzles. Both of the my kids were good at puzzles and I really never thought too much about it. Is it that rare? I don't know how rare it is but in DD's soon to be classroom (0-2yr11m) I just noticed they had only the insert puzzles. That being said they did have other activities that I know she hasn't been exposed to yet so I'm hoping it won't be an issue and DH gave them a heads up that she's good at math related things so they said that they could bring things in from the higher classrooms. I did find this for 4 year olds: http://www.pbs.org/parents/childdevelopmenttracker/four/mathematics.htmlThroughout the year, children can complete increasingly complex puzzles (e.g., four-piece interlocking to eight- or ten-piece puzzles, to puzzles with smaller and up to 15 pieces) and progress in their abilities to put together and take apart shapes (e.g., understands that a whole object such as a pizza can be separated into parts). Children also build three-dimensional structures using multiple types of items (e.g., a rectangular prism, cube and arches). In the second half of the year, some children may create drawings that involve more than two geometric forms.
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I know I am a little late to the discussion but my dd6 (and new DYS) went through a big puzzle phase when she was two. She lacked a bit on fine motor skills at the time, so some of the cardboard pieces were tough for her to "lock in" - even if she had them in the correct place. I found the Melissa and Doug puzzles and Ravensberger to be slightly better, due to the quality of the pieces. However, our most successful find was the "foam" puzzles by edushape. I think the ones we have are 54 pieces. DD especially loved this one, as it coincided with a a big interest of hers in the 50 states. http://www.amazon.com/Edushape-8470...-and-games&qid=1299622391&sr=1-2We also have a world map, a water scene and a jungle scene. I have recommended them before to some people who did not enjoy them, because the foamy nature of the pieces allows a child to easily put the wrong pieces together. This was not an issue for us. YMMV.
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DD has been flying through her new puzzles and is actually doing a the vast majority of the 100 piece Under the Sea one by herself. I�m going to break out some of the other 100 piece ones because she seems to have gotten the 48 pieces ones figured out already. She�ll do all her puzzles one after another and then line them and go swimming through the under the sea one, go sit in her castle one, and hang out with the toucan in a jungle one that she has. I found the Melissa and Doug puzzles and Ravensberger to be slightly better, due to the quality of the pieces. However, our most successful find was the "foam" puzzles by edushape. Thanks! I haven�t heard of Ravensberger puzzles before, they look like they have some cool ones.
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She�ll do all her puzzles one after another and then line them and go swimming through the under the sea one, go sit in her castle one, and hang out with the toucan in a jungle one that she has. That's great to have a wonderful imagination to enjoy the puzzles like that. I love this place, three pages of puzzle support!
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I love this place, three pages of puzzle support! I hear you!! Where else could you have this conversation and it is considered normal? I cannot talk about these things with anyone else.
Tomorrow is always fresh, with no mistakes in it. — L.M. Montgomery
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My dd is a big puzzle girl!! We find it hard to find ones that are 200/300. They seem to go from 100 then jump to 400+, which would take a long time to complete and we don't have a spot to keep it safe from her younger brother messing it up when we are taking a break. So what I do is take a bunch of the 25 piece puzzles(10 or more) that come on the flat cardboard backround(not in the box). We dump them all in a pile and mix them up and she has to put them all back together again. She has a blast doing this.
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DS #2 (now 2 years 4 months) seems to be going off puzzles now. He will still build some of his favourite ones, ranging from 9 pieces right up to 48 pieces, but definitely not like a few months back where he would sit and do 4 or 5 puzzles in a row.
Maybe we need some new ones. My older son would only ever build a puzzle twice and then refuse to do it again. And then for a long time didn't want to do puzzles (age 2.5 till now - age 4) now he will only do a puzzle if his younger brother is doing one, and it must have more pieces, or he won't do it.
It makes me laugh. But he just prefers mazes. Makes me a bit sad - I LOVE puzzles so I am hoping that at least one of them "grows" into enjoying puzzles.
strange to say that when we were looking for a pre school we also noticed that the regular class for 3 year olds only had up to 12 piece puzzles and Aiden we already doing 48+ piece puzzles then. of course none of the teachers believed us - so nice to see that some educators will accommodate!
Mom to 3 gorgeous boys: Aiden (8), Nathan (7) and Dylan (4)
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strange to say that when we were looking for a pre school we also noticed that the regular class for 3 year olds only had up to 12 piece puzzles and Aiden we already doing 48+ piece puzzles then. of course none of the teachers believed us - so nice to see that some educators will accommodate! Today we took DD to her future preschool and she was checking out the room for her age group and basically went through all the puzzles (they were all insert puzzles) so she'd take out a couple of pieces and put them back in and then go to the next puzzles. She went through pretty much all the puzzles there in a matter of minutes. The cool thing was is that DH explained she was doing 48+ at home too and the director didn't even blink and said that once DD was acclimated to the new school they could move her up to the next age group. I love this place, three pages of puzzle support! I hear you!! Where else could you have this conversation and it is considered normal? I cannot talk about these things with anyone else. Very true! 
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strange to say that when we were looking for a pre school we also noticed that the regular class for 3 year olds only had up to 12 piece puzzles and Aiden we already doing 48+ piece puzzles then. of course none of the teachers believed us - so nice to see that some educators will accommodate! Today we took DD to her future preschool and she was checking out the room for her age group and basically went through all the puzzles (they were all insert puzzles) so she'd take out a couple of pieces and put them back in and then go to the next puzzles. She went through pretty much all the puzzles there in a matter of minutes. The cool thing was is that DH explained she was doing 48+ at home too and the director didn't even blink and said that once DD was acclimated to the new school they could move her up to the next age group. I love this place, three pages of puzzle support! I hear you!! Where else could you have this conversation and it is considered normal? I cannot talk about these things with anyone else. Very true! fabulous news that they will move her up! it's great to see / hear that it happens sometimes easily for us to get what the kids need without a fight every step of the way. and yes I also smiled to see a whole 3 pages on puzzles, and it's normal!! hahahahaha
Mom to 3 gorgeous boys: Aiden (8), Nathan (7) and Dylan (4)
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I took little man 2yr 10mo yard sale-ing on the weekend and he was overjoyed to find a 100-piece Ravensberger "Thomas the Tank" puzzle. He has not played with his puzzles in quite a while and the last few he did were 48-pieces. He went to town on the new puzzle. I helped him the first two times and then I backed off and just helped him sort the pieces. Yesterday, he put the whole dang thing together by himself. When he was done he jumped up and down and clapped his hands and said, "I did it!"
Talk about asynchronous development... the kid can barely talk!
Tomorrow is always fresh, with no mistakes in it. — L.M. Montgomery
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