Manufacturer: SMART MEMORIES Sp. z o.o.

The Vegetables puzzle is a set of 4 independent pictures (tomato, pumpkin, beetroot, eggplant) split into 2 pieces each. Puzzles designed this way are the first step to starting an adventure with jigsaw puzzles. Even a child just over a year old can discover the joy of playing with puzzles while exercising their little hands, concentration, and perceptiveness.

Vegetables are not only elements of the nature around us that we show and name with even the youngest children, but they are also the foundation of a healthy diet for everyone. How can you convince children to eat vegetables and introduce them to the wealth of flavors, scents, colors, and shapes they offer? Through playing together, which our puzzles featuring original illustrations can help you with.

Puzzles primarily help shape: concentration, visual perception, spatial awareness, hand-eye coordination, fine motor skills, and speech and communication. Did you know that:

1. Concentration is the ability to focus attention on something specific. It can be an activity being performed, a specific object, or instructions given by a teacher. Attentional focus ensures a child's proper development and is essential at every stage of their education.
2. Visual perception allows a child to get to know and understand the world around them, and it is also essential in further education when learning to read, write, and count. Initially, by playing with a few pieces with different pictures, a child must focus their vision on them and evaluate what they see, e.g., colors, shapes, similarities, and differences. This is an introduction to more advanced analysis, which is, among other things, the basis for logical thinking.
3. Thanks to spatial awareness, a child is able to predict what an arrangement consisting of several elements will look like, determine the relationships between objects, or identify their own position in an area. spatial awareness is extremely important for further learning, especially for developing mathematical and technical abilities.
4. Hand-eye coordination enables the achievement of movement precision. It is essential in everyday activities – from eating independently, dressing, drawing, or writing to physical activity. Hand-eye coordination additionally requires training the child's hands and fingers, i.e., fine motor skills.
5. Fine motor skills are the precise movements of the hands and fingers, such as squeezing, stroking, kneading, and grasping. They are essential in many areas of a child's life and in achieving independence (e.g., brushing teeth, buttoning buttons, eating, writing).
6. Speech and effective communication are the basis of daily life in the family and are indispensable in developing social competencies. They allow a child to express their thoughts and feelings and to understand what others want to convey.