QUOKKA Puzzles for Kids Ages 4-6 – 4 x 60 Puzzles for Toddlers 5-8 – Educational Search & Find Toy for 8-10 yo for Learning Forest Polar, USA National Park Animals & City Life

great puzzles
After reading the one-star reviews (mostly for missing puzzle pieces) I opened the boxes and assembled the pieces immediately. All the pieces were in each of the four puzzles so I was happy that I wouldn’t have to return the puzzles, maybe Quokka has resolved the problem.The puzzles are great! The pieces are durable, the pictures are bright and colorful as depicted. The boxes are sturdy and should protect the puzzles for a long time as long as they are cared for and not stepped on. As a sub teacher I use puzzles as a motivator for good behavior, my students really like these, they are pretty and the puzzle pictures encourage interest in the animals and cityscape. These will fit on a student desk and will be challenging for first and second graders.The puzzles fit easily into zip locks and the zip locks fit easily into the boxes, they should stay clean and fun to play with for a long time.

Very detailed, great for learning
So my toddler got really into puzzles at about a year and a half old. By the time his second birthday was approaching, smaller puzzles just stopped challenging him. So I got him this three pack for his second birthday. Such a great buy. It took him a week of doing the dinosaur puzzle once or twice a day with assistance before he was ready to do it on his own without help. Then we just let him play with it every day; he’d put it together, point at the dinosaurs, and growl. Then take it apart, put it away, dump the pieces back out again, and start over. But eventually he got so good at it he started to lose interest. So out came the forest puzzle. The forest puzzle was a HUGE hit–animal names were starting to enter his vocabulary at that point and he loved pointing at the animals and having me name them . . . then starting to name them for himself, complete with sound effects! Again, it took a little guidance for the first few times he did the puzzle, but he was starting to really get the hang of how puzzles worked at this point so he really didn’t need much assistance–just encouragement because this puzzle is a lot for a 25-month-old. But eventually, he got so confident with it I decided it was time for the sea creatures puzzle. Oh my gosh, the sea creatures puzzle was a hit. He needed help the first time through and after that he was determined to do it himself. He’s in love with whales, dolphins, sharks, seahorses, clown fish, basically everything that’s in this puzzle. It’s so fun to watch him build this little marine world and let his imagination and vocabulary go crazy.Now he has all three puzzles down and loves them all, we’re working on color names. So the puzzles sit on a high shelf in his room, but twice a day we get one down for him to play with. He tells us which one he wants, then contentedly throws it together in fifteen minutes or so of concentrated bliss. This three-pack of puzzles has basically been one of the best toy investments we could have asked for! Three months in, the pieces are a little bent and scuffed and the boxes themselves have seen better days, but I imagine these puzzles will continue to feature quite a lot in play times going forward.Update almost two years later:The puzzles are still in use! We put them away for a little while as other puzzles and toys became interesting, but now that our two-year-old is almost four, and he has an almost-two-year-old younger brother, we brought them back out! Our first kid took a little time to relearn them, and now he’s teaching his younger brother how to do them. They’ve been spending a ton of their free time each day at the kitchen table doing puzzles. Super cute.

Christmas gift
I brought the puzzles for my grand niece for Christmas. I will find out how she likes the puzzles come Christmas Day. For now, the boxes were small size just right for a small child to hold and carry. For storing away, it should fit perfect in a book shelf without it half hanging off the shelf. As for the puzzle pieces, I don’t know until she opens it on Christmas.

Perfect for building puzzle confidence!
I am homeschooling two kiddos and it was suggested to me to incorporate more puzzles into my curriculum. Apparently puzzles increase visual problem solving ability, increase stress tolerance, and help with logical sequencing skills! We went to a local store and bought some 100 and 300 piece puzzles that were just too much for beginners. We needed a step between the classic tray puzzles with 24 or less pieces and 100 pieces. These were perfect! The boxes are high quality and easy to store the pieces in, and the puzzles themselves are really good quality too! They held up to my two girls and will probably continue to for many years to come. I highly recommend these puzzles and this brand!

Good for kids.

 

Se lo regalamos a mi hijo y se lo pasó genial, sobretodo ahora qué está enganchado con los puzzles.