Three- and four-year-olds will really enjoy this fun mental workout that focuses on learning letters. They'll have a great time solving a rainy day maze to take two toddlers to their umbrellas; completing grids with the words for favorite vegetables; and circling the letters in each line that have a check mark next to them - and combining them to create a word. It's a wonderful first step to mastering reading: and a great bonding experience for adult and child.
Perfect for five and six year-olds, this appealing collection is full of fun, with riddles to solve, grids to fill in and word games to play. In "Book Reviews," children have to match up author names with book titles and "A Symbol Puzzle" provides a simple introduction to cryptology. A wonderful collection of puzzles that parents and children can work on together - a great way to build language skills.
Three and four year olds will love the challenge of Easy First Puzzles, which tests their familiarity with everyday words and concepts. By completing a maze, they'll help Bo Peep find her sheep. Picture Crossword fun begins with an image, such as a bird, house, and school desk; the object, then, is to write its name in the grid. Other activities include an Up in the Air connect the dots featuring things you'll see in the sky and Shoe In, where kids match up shoes (such as ballerina slippers) with their likely owners.
Solving puzzles is brain-building fun - and this smart, engaging series is a great way for even the youngest kids to begin a valuable lifelong habit. Enticing illustrations guide children as they match up words and pictures; connect the dots to see what's being built; figure out which letter turns one word into another; and reach the tempting snacks at the end of a maze. Parents & teachers are invited to join the child and work together. And it's okay for kids to direct the adult as he or she does the actual writing in the book!
Learning to read is easier when it's turned into an entertaining game, and that's just what these puzzles do! Each one offers five- and six-year-olds plenty of enjoyment, so they won't even realise that they're really building skills. For 'Flower Power' - an easy form of crossword - young solvers have to place the names of different flowers into the correct spaces on a grid. 'It Starts with H' is a simple word search: kids have to look across and down to find such words as harp, heart, and home. Plus, they'll solve riddles and anagrams, do some code-breaking, fill in blank spaces to form new words, and have a good time!
Slightly older children get their chance to show off their smarts, as they unscramble words, decode messages, and fill in crosswords. Round About contains a list of round things; kids have to fit each word into a diagram until the whole grid is filled in. Or they can Go for It! with a word search where every entry begins with the letter G. Every enjoyable puzzle will have new readers effortlessly honing their skills.
Young puzzle lovers will enjoy the challenge of solving these word games whilst building their letter recognition and reading skills. They'll learn to decipher anagrams, recognise familiar words in a maze and solve picture anagrams.