Puzzles
Puzzles come in all shapes and sizes for every age level and are an excellent way to help kids build their skills across many different areas. They offer a fun and educational problem-solving activity that can also help them learn about topics such as animals, shapes and comparisons. Kurtz Bros carries a wide variety of puzzles and puzzle racks, so you can find the perfect puzzles and store them too.
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Fun-to-Know® Puzzles - Alphabet is a set of 26 interlocking puzzles designed to help children ages 3 and up build essential reading skills. Each puzzle features durable 3" x 3" pieces with photographs that help children connect letters with real-life objects.
Fun-to-Know® Puzzles - Easy Words is an educational set designed to help children learn and reinforce common vocabulary with short-vowel sounds. It includes 40 sturdy 3" x 3" boardstock cards, featuring 20 three- and four-letter words with photo cues that match the written words.
Fun-to-Know® Puzzles - What Comes Next? is a set of 15 engaging, two-sided puzzles designed to help children develop sequencing and ordinal number skills. Each puzzle features three durable 3" x 3" pieces, with pictures on the front and words and numbers on the back.
The Fun-to-Know® Shapes and Numbers Puzzles set is a hands-on learning tool designed for young children to master early math and shape recognition skills. With interlocking pieces and real-life photographs, each puzzle is self-checking for easy learning.
Puzzle Cards PreK Bundle is a set of self-correcting, easy-to-handle puzzles designed to enhance children's learning. Each card features vibrant, full-color illustrations that make counting, spelling, and letter skills exciting and engaging.
Puzzle Cards is a set of self-correcting, easy-to-handle puzzles designed to enhance children's learning. Each card features vibrant, full-color illustrations that make counting, spelling, and letter skills exciting and engaging.
Fun-to-Know® Puzzles - Community Helpers is an educational set designed to teach children about various community helpers and their tools. The set includes 20 two-piece puzzles, with 40 durable 3" x 3" pieces featuring real-life photographs.
Learning Puzzles: Simple Addition & Subtraction is an engaging and interactive way for children to practice basic math skills. This set includes 20 self-checking, 5-piece puzzles designed to reinforce addition and subtraction. Each puzzle features an answer in the center, surrounded by four puzzle pieces showing an addition or subtraction problem.
Alphabet Puzzle Cards are an engaging educational tool designed to help young learners master letter recognition and phonics. The set includes 26 high-quality, durable cards featuring both uppercase and lowercase letters.
First Learning Puzzles: Alphabet is a fun and engaging way for children to learn the alphabet. This set includes 26 colorful self-checking, 3-piece puzzles that can be used in two ways: as 2-piece puzzles for beginners and as 3-piece puzzles for more advanced learners.
Learning Puzzles: Beginning Sounds is an engaging educational set designed to help children master the sounds of consonant letters. The set includes 20 self-checking, 5-piece puzzles, each featuring a target letter in the center and four matching picture/word puzzle pieces.
The Learning Puzzles: Rhyming set is an engaging educational tool designed to help children recognize and generate rhyming words. This set includes 20 self-checking, 5-piece puzzles, each featuring a target word in the center surrounded by four matching rhyming picture/word pieces.
Learning Puzzles: Vowel Sounds is a fun and interactive way for children to master long and short vowel sounds. The set includes 20 self-checking, 5-piece puzzles, each featuring a target vowel sound at the center and four matching picture/word pieces.
The Alphabet Learning Mailbox is a fun and interactive educational tool designed to help young learners master letter recognition, phonics, and early spelling skills. The set includes a colorful mailbox, 26 letter cards (uppercase and lowercase), matching picture cards, and 30 reusable puffy postage stamp stickers.
Discover endless "tots-ibilities" with this classic Mr. Potato Head set! Little hands (Ages 2+) can create wacky characters using the potato body and 12 easy-to-handle parts. Features a "tater tush" storage compartment. Great for imaginative play and fine motor skill development!
First Learning Puzzles: Rhyming is an engaging educational set that helps children develop phonemic awareness and rhyming skills. This colorful set includes 25 self-checking, 3-piece puzzles that can be used in two ways: as 2-piece puzzles for beginners and as 3-piece puzzles as children progress.
Early Learning Puzzles for Sale
Early learning puzzles are a little different than puzzles for adults. They typically feature very large pieces, great for still-growing hands, and different educational topics, such as numbers to match up or animals to identify. There are many different types of early learning puzzles to choose from:- Knob puzzles: Knob puzzles feature just a handful of large pieces, each with a big knob on them. This makes it easier for kids to grab onto and place pieces.
- Matching games: Some puzzles involve connecting two matching pieces, such as different parts of a math problem or a letter and an item that starts with it. Kids get to practice these skills while the conjoining edges give them a handy hint if they need a nudge in the right direction.
- Traditional puzzles: You can also find age-appropriate classic wooden puzzles for kids with fun scenes and large pieces.
- Cube puzzles: Cube puzzles consist of a tray and cubes, with the puzzle pieces displayed as images on each side of the cubes. They provide multiple puzzles in one kit and add an extra element to the challenge. Some even have sounds that play when the child solves the puzzle.
Why Use Puzzles?
No matter which type of puzzle your young learner is using, you can expect them to gain a variety of valuable skills along the way. Kids' jigsaw puzzles are great for helping with:- Concentration. Sustained focus can take some practice. Wooden puzzles for toddlers help them build these skills and improve their attention spans, provided the puzzle is age-appropriate.
- Spatial awareness. Puzzles can promote spatial ability in kids, helping them understand more about how objects relate to each other in space.
- Self-confidence. The satisfaction of solving a puzzle can do wonders for a child's self-confidence.
- Fine motor skills. Parsing through the little pieces and putting them in place requires some dexterity. Kids develop these fine motor skills as they work with puzzles.
- Problem-solving skills. Solving a puzzle requires students to exercise some creative thinking. It's a great way for kids to work on their problem-solving skills.
- Specific topics. Plenty of puzzles feature educational topics, so students can gain familiarity and learn more with each piece they place.