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are there 'milestones' for jigsaw puzzles - i.e. - at 4.0-4.5 a child should be able to complete a puzzle with X number of pieces in one sitting - that sort of thing? I know puzzles are used in some cognative tests, so I'm wondering if there are guidelines for what's expected for each age bracket.Not sure...Sarah does well with 25 pieces alone since she was 4 but to get her to do 50+ she whines and wants help. I have heard some asd kids doing 500 pieces at early ages...sometimes with picture upside down  Sarah dont!  Yeah, I'm looking for what's typical (expected) - I know some ASD kids are whizzes at these things! I think there are - one thing you can do is check the ages on the boxes or the packaging. It's usually a good indicator. My dd is a puzzle whiz - she just turned 3 and is putting together 24 piece framed tray puzzles with minimal to no help. Ds can't do that and wouldn't know where to start. He has difficulty with even 6 piece puzzles. We have been bad about not working on that with him (because Lord knows, we have nothing else to do!), according to the OT. I think I will try to do that this summer along with about a billion other things (including him playing with the twins down the street for half the day every day so far!). I think for your dd's age - an 8-12 piece puzzle is a reasonable expectation. There are some kids who can do a LOT more and some who can do some less. But, I'm no expert - as neither of my kids are in the "typical" range for doing puzzles! My 2 older kids were doing 60 piece around 4-5, then 100 piece Kindy-1st grade. I think that's pretty average.Billy loves puzzles and is quite good at them. His visual skills are astonishing to me. He can put a puzzle of the US map together and do it by shape, because he does not know what the states are, as he cannot read yet. It is something I am proud of . I am sorry Fred, I know this does not answer your question.Okay - really? 60-100 piece puzzles in kindergarten? Wow - I didn't realize that! I don't really know what their friends were doing in terms of puzzles at various ages. We did a lot of puzzles, I love them myself, maybe they inherited the jigsaw gene  But they did do them very easily. No interest anymore at 8 and 11. Ethan, at 3 1/2 has a hard time with the "each piece seperate puzzles." A 24 piece puzzle on the box is for ages 3+. A 50 piece puzzle is for ages 5+. Adam just turned 3 and is doing 100 piece puzzles. Edited to add that we buy ALOT of puzzles. LOL My son, who just turned 6, does have several 60 piece puzzles that he can do independently. We haven't tried a 100 piece one yet. I do know I've seen 100 piece puzzles listed as being for ages 6 and up. My son's both had the same pre-school teacher and she encouraged her students to do puzzles to help improve their concentration and attending abilities. Fred, NAEYC (the national association for the education of young children) says that 4 year olds should be able to handle 12-18 piece puzzles and 5 year olds should be able to handle 18-35 piece puzzles. You can read more info here www.naeyc.org/ece/1997/17.asp In real life, in my daughter's NT nursery school class friends seem to be able to range between 18 piece to 35 piece puzzles. 50 with adult help. My PDD-NOS 3 year old son can easily do 60 piece puzzles with no help, but he loves them so he gets lots of practice.
Jen Very informative link, jdecina. My 9 year old autistic son needs a lot of help with puzzling strategies, and therefore still needs help with 12 to 18 piece puzzles. He doesn't really like puzzles either, so we don't do them that often. Each time, I have to remind him to start by putting all the pieces face up and teach him how to identify border pieces and corner pieces, and ask him if he wants to start on the ground first or the sky first (for example). My 5-1/2 year old NT (?) son is at the 12 to 18 piece level, too. Puzzles have been targeted in Anthony's ABA program and as part of his IEP. I'll have to check his IEP to see how many pieces they wanted him to be able to do (I think 25). He can do a 20 - 30 piece puzzle and I believe that is age appropriate - he'll be 5 in September.On the following website, you can change the level of difficulty for any given puzzle, anywhere from 6 to 247 pieces! http://www.dltk-kids.com/puzzle.htm The puzzles are organized by theme. Here are the various themes:
Uh, oh - wow... Thanks NorwayMom! That's a great, great link - my girls are going to love those! Jason has been doing 24-36 puzzles since about a little before Christmas... so he was almost 4. He **can** do 50 piece puzzles but with help... generally if we help him do the border he can fill in most of the rest with min help. Honestly I'd never given him a puzzle with more than 12 pieces before December of last year... just assumed he couldn't do it Neat link... can't wait to go through all of that!! snoopywoman, These may be too young for your son, but here are the one's that Aidan likes. http://pbskids.org/caillou/games/puzzle/index.html http://www.thomasandfriends.com/uk/jigsaws.html http://pbskids.org/clifford/games/index_puppypuzzles.html http://www.nickjr.com/playtime/shows/blue/games/blue_jigsawp uzzle.jhtml http://www.nickjr.com/playtime/cats/games/all_games/bear_puz zle.jhtml On one of the many questionaires I filled out for their evaluation the question was can they do a 9 piece jigsaw puzzle. The questionaire was specifically geared towards 4 years old(I believe they have a different one for different ages) so I assumed the milestone was a 9 piece jigsaw puzzle for a 4 year old. My boys can't really do the jigsaws, they are still doing the peg puzzles, but we are working on it.I believe there is an age for puzzle milestones. I have also seen that even some puzzles are way too advance for the age they categorize it. My son can do a 9 piece and has done 24 piece with help. 60? he will loose interest and get frustrated
Thanks for the link! The Clifford ones might be okay- but the nickjr ones require something my computer doesn't have. And the characters are a bit young for my ds. .. I'm looking for something that will REALLY overcome his aversion to puzzles. So, if anyone knows of any link to computer puzzles (easy ones) that have a pirate theme - I would be greatly appreciative! That is his huge interest right now and I hope that if there are pirates or Peter Pan-type puzzles in 6-9 pieces on the computer that might spark his interest and actually get him to try. He can do it if he's interested. But, he almost never is... I will be posting a topic for online puzzles and it will be updated every now and then as they are found. Snoopywoman, you can try making your own pirate puzzle at this website, if you google a pirate image and store it on your computer. http://www.flash-gear.com/puzzle/ - for making your own puzzle using an image on your computer. You can choose the puzzle piece size. I haven't tried the website yet myself, but I've read positive comments about it.
hehe - that is GREAT! http://four.flash-gear.com/npuz/puz.php?c=v&id=2390889&a mp;k=38525946 |
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My mother in law was the one who did a 24 piece puzzle with him the first time... she is great at showing us what he can do that we never would have guessed 