Children Puzzles: Never too Early to Start

I’ve never understood puzzles—especially those 6,000 piece numbers illustrating a sunset or a galloping horse or a boat adrift on a vast ocean. But children seem to dig them and who am I to dissuade my offspring from activating that part of his brain? (They say puzzles are good for the mind. That’s probably why I don’t like them). Luckily puzzles for the under three set are a different beast all together. Like this Three Chicks puzzle from Imagiplay. The simple, chunky pieces are made from eco-friendly rubberwood, colored with non-toxic paints and fit perfectly into little hands. Best of all, you don’t have to spread them out across your dining room table for months while you try to figure out if the brown pieces are part of a tree trunk or a horse’s tail.