Fun Puzzle Activities for Kids
Help your children develop reasoning skills with fun puzzles, which will give them the problem-solving tools they will need to read, write and organize their thoughts. To complete a puzzle, your child must use logic to fit smaller pieces together to build a complete picture, a skill needed for solving complex math problems later on in your child's academic career.
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Logic Puzzles
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Logic puzzles are designed in many different forms, but all have one goal -- to answer a question based on reasoning, analyzing and thinking. Visit thekidzpage.com to play the free Pet-Mix Up logic game, which helps children build deductive reasoning skills, while at the same time familiarizing them with the Internet. To solve this logic puzzle, children use the information provided in the story, marking a dot for true statements and an x for false statement on the game grid.
Word Search Puzzles
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Give your child a word search puzzle based on a theme she may be interested in, such as animals, robots, sports or dinosaurs. Providing word search puzzles during specific holidays or special occasions will also help your child get in the spirit of the season.
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Sudoku Puzzles
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Sudoku puzzles utilize numbers, but in most cases, no math is involved. Your child will use logic to find out where the numbers go. Start your child off with an easy sudoku puzzle, made up of four square grids, with four individual squares in each grid, containing the numbers 1, 2, 3 and 4, without repeating a number in any row or column. If the top row of grid one contains "3" and "1," for example, in grid two, the top row must not contain "3" or "1."
Cryptograms
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A cryptogram uses letter substitution to encrypt a word or phrase, which will usually form a paragraph or story. A child uses a method of trial and error to uncover the words or phrases, helping him build the skill of identifying patterns in a system.
Mazes
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Mazes help develop your child's motor and spacial perception skills. Find themes that interest your child, such as pirates or dinosaurs, to get her started, then move on to less orthodox mazes, such as the happy face hint maze. In this maze, your child follows the happy faces to find the correct path through the maze.
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