I Love You Match-Up Puzzles - Jungle Babies

By Mudpuppy
Price $14.99
Age 1 - 3 yrs.

Jungle Babies I Love You Match-Up Puzzles from Mudpuppy proved to be an outstanding way to engage youngsters in the invaluable process of learning through hands-on play. Little ones are immediately drawn to the playful illustrations depicting a variety of jungle animas in joyful parent-child bonding moments. Each of the six puzzle boards in the set displays a different caregiver/baby pair in a vibrantly colorful jungle setting with a single removable piece - the baby. The puzzles are thick and durably made, the pieces nice and chunky to make them easy for little hands to grasp and manipulate. Since each removable puzzle piece consists of the younger animal in the scene (in both shape and image), removing them from the boards inspires a range of interconnected play activities - spontaneous storytelling, pretend play, matching games and, of course, assembly of the puzzles. Young children naturally identify with the animal babies and are deeply drawn to the idea of reuniting the families by matching each piece to its home puzzle, a process that helps build visual discrimination, sorting, classification, motor skills, animal and shape recognition, vocabulary and more!