Puzzles - Wooden & Peg
Getting Dressed
Learning to dress is an important life skill for early learners. This beautifully illustrated colourful puzzle set will help your child learn to dress him/her self in the correct sequence without your help! Parent/Teacher-friendly instructions are included. Age 3+.
Who is my Mother?
Learn about animals, their babies and the environment. Develop skills such as language and vocabulary, creative thinking, memory and concentration. Features 10 beautifully illustrated 2-piece puzzles and instructions in Afrikaans and English. Suitable for 1 to 4 players. Age 4+.
Count to Ten
Learning about numbers 1 to 10 and the quantities they represent is an important part of early learning and school readiness. The 10 self-correcting 2-piece puzzles require number and quantity matching. An 11-piece number train is included to develop number sequencing. Detailed instructions are included. Age 3+.
What size is it?
Learning about differences in size is an important school readiness skill. These 10 beautifully illustrated 3-piece puzzles will improve visual discrimination and help your child to think and reason in a logical manner. Detailed instructions are included. Suitable for 1-4 players. Age 3+.
Where do I live?
Learning about animal homes will help your child understand the importance of protecting our environment. These 10 delightfully illustrated 2-piece puzzles also include opportunities to enhance language, conversation and reasoning skills. Suitable for 1 to 4 players. Age 3+.
Where are they?
This exciting and innovative educational game will help your child understand positional and spatial concepts which are vital for reading and mathematical learning. Develop observational skills and pay attention to detail. Positional and spatial vocabulary development (left, right, up, down, in front of, etc,) is fundamental to school readiness. Follow visual and verbal instructions. Enjoy creative thinking and reasoning. Afrikaans and English instructions included. Age 4+.
Smart Shapes
Have fun with shapes! Placing the shapes in their correct positions on the shape cards will help your child recognise and match colours and shapes and acquire positional concepts. Your child will develop early childhood skills such as shape and colour recognition, fine motor, reasoning, logical thinking, planning, positioning and creativity. This set contains 32 shapes, 16 graded designs on laminated cards and detailed teaching notes. Age 4+.
Opposites
Opposites are unlike each other in every way! These 2-piece puzzles will not only develop thinking and reasoning skills but also the vocabulary to confidently express him/herself. Opposites can be used to compare time, distance, behaviour, gender, position, directions, taste, etc. The opposites illustrated on the puzzle pieces have been chosen to encourage discussion and active participation. Age 4+.
Life Cycles
All living things have interesting life cycles. These beautifully illustrated 4 piece sets of Life Cycle sequence cards cover 6 different life cycles including the bean plant, butterfly, chicken, frog, human and sea turtle. This game will encourage conversation and help your child to see nature differently. The illustrated information leaflet gives many interesting facts and will help your child learn new and exciting nature words and facts. Age 5+.
Associations Match
Associations can be described as the way in which the brain associates one object, picture or idea with another. Learning to associate one object with another will help your child to think and reason in a logical manner. Detailed instructions will help you communicate with your child while he/she matches the objects depicted on these 18 colourful 2-piece puzzles. Your child will enjoy talking about the 36 pictures and playing games which include riddles and absurdities. Age 3+.
Memo Lotto
This game has 48 beautifully illustrated wooden picture cards. It will help your child increase vocabulary, match pictures, improve positional and auditory memory and learn initial phonic sounds. Suitable for 1-4 players. Instructions are included. Age 4+.
Learning Addition
Early learners need concrete apparatus to help them experience and properly understand basic mathematical concepts, such as quantity, position, counting, parts of a whole and addition. This set will assist learners to build these basic concepts with understanding. Counting Cubes are used to create sensory learning of number concepts. Young learners will have fun putting together the self-correcting 2-piece wooden puzzles while solving simple addition equations. An activity guide is supplied in Afrikaans and English. Age 4+.
Learning Subtraction
This set will assist learners to build these basic concepts with understanding. Counting Cubes are used to create sensory learning of number concepts. Young learners will have fun putting together the self-correcting 2-piece wooden puzzles while solving simple subtraction equations. An activity guide is supplied in Afrikaans and English. Age 4+.
