There is no doubt that most humans have a special liking for puzzles. Despite the fact it can be quite difficult to get around a times, we love to dabble around it still; solving it. No doubt we like the way puzzles challenge our thinking while also helping us exercise our minds. Indeed puzzles are important to our mental development. And just in case you don’t think so, below are some of the importance of puzzles to make you change your mind-

Puzzles help sharpen your cognitive skills: Puzzles come in a whole range of themes and topics such as alphabet letters, shapes, vegetables, numbers, pets, transport and colours. It increases their visual spacial awareness and develops a deeper understanding of these themes and topics. All children learn differently and puzzles may be their medium for grasping an understanding of certain themes such as alphabet letters.

Puzzles will help you build your problem solving skills: Completing a puzzle, even the most simplest of puzzles sets a single goal to achieve. Toddlers and children must think and develop strategies on how to approach in achieving this goal. This process involves problem solving, reasoning skills and developing solutions which they can later be transferred into their personal/adult life.

Solving puzzles will help accelerate motor development: Puzzles are a fun way for children to develop and refine their fine motor skills. When engaged in playing with puzzles, children are required to pick up, pinch and grasp pieces (some with small knobs, pegs or chunky pieces) and move them around, manipulating them into slots, sorting them and fitting them into the correct places.

Puzzles help you develop needful social skills: Puzzles are a great educational tool to enhance and promote cooperative play. As kids work together to complete a puzzle, they will discuss where a piece should go and why, take turns and share and support each other when handling frustration, then sharing the joy of finishing the puzzle.

Puzzles will help build your self esteem: The accomplishment of achieving a goal brings so much satisfaction to a child. Overcoming the challenges involved in solving a puzzle really gives them a sense of achievement and pride within themselves. It provides a boost to their self-confidence and self-esteem as this prepares them for other challenges in life.

Now try to solve of the puzzles below-