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Buying guide: choosing the right puzzle

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For generations, jigsaw pu zzles have been the ultimate learning pastime. Piece by piece, famous paintings and landscapes come to life under our fingers. Beneficial for the memory and logic of the whole family, jigsaw puzzles today come in a multitude of themes! It's hard to choose a puzzle for yourself, your baby or your older child: it's a question of finding the right number of pieces and the most attractive illustrations, to make this moment of play a moment of relaxation and pleasure.

From wooden baby puzzles to 2000-piece jigsaw puzzles, there's a Janod puzzle for everyone: follow our guide to choosing the right one!

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Wooden puzzle: baby's first manipulations, from 18 months

Sturdy, with pieces that are easy for little ones to grasp, the wooden puzzle is ideal for babies from 18 months. Each piece is an element in its own right, so each character finds its own place on the support: children begin to test the positions to fit the elements in the right places, developing their fine motor skills and logical thinking.

A 2-year-old's puzzle can also be the basis for a whole new range of adventures! On the farm, in the forest or with the dinos, little ones' imaginations bring the elements to life. Baby's wooden puzzle takes on a whole new dimension, thanks to large, easy-to-handle pieces that can leave the tray and become real figurines.

Puzzle pieces are adapted to baby's needs in terms of both size and number. Indeed, you'll find plenty of 6-piece puzzles in our selection.

Janod's wooden puzzles invite children to discover animals, the alphabet and shapes: well thought-out for developing baby's vocabulary! Whether he prefers a dinosaur puzzle or a cat puzzle, you can be sure that your little one will be stimulated by a fun activity.

If you're looking for a 4-piece puzzle, or if you want to offer your child a game that adapts to his or her progress, you can also choose an evolving puzzle. We offer sets of 4 wooden evolutionary puzzles, where each puzzle has a different number of pieces, from 2 to 5.

A wooden toy is a guarantee of durability, and when the complexity of the puzzle follows the child's progress, it's even more durable!

Puzzle 20 to 49 pieces: from surprises to discoveries, ages 3 to 4

Their first puzzles, just like the grown-ups! In the kingdom of the princesses, in the heart of the action with the firemen or on the ice floe, puzzles for 3-year-olds promise a multitude of surprises.

With their 20-piece jigsaw puzzle, children refine their ability to assemble the elements according to the model. They also enrich their vocabulary thanks to the soft, varied illustrations, suitable for the youngest. The surprise puzzle is ideal for a first introduction to cardboard puzzles: pull the tabs to discover hidden elements or amusing illustrations, and the animal puzzle comes to life! The tactile puzzle, meanwhile, offers a variety of materials to discover with your fingertips. Once the pieces have been assembled, the child can explore the scenery in search of different textures: it's time to awaken the senses!

Presented in an attractive carrying case with handle, the 24-piece puzzle invites children into ever more animated scenes: characters, vehicles and animals are always busy! New challenges for 3- to 4-year-olds. How about a magic puzzle? Once the puzzle is done, use the included lamp to discover hidden elements!

A 36-piece Janod puzzle is an excellent way to keep children aged 4 and over busy with a calm, rewarding activity. Using the model as a starting point, little ones develop their logic and dexterity. Here they are, immersed in fairyland, the hustle and bustle of the city or the construction site! The size of the pieces has been specially designed to match the age and level of difficulty of the puzzlers , making them appealing to young and old alike. A handy little case to store all the pieces!

Puzzle 50 to 149 pieces: a world to assemble, ages 5 to 7

It's puzzle time with a 50+ piece puzzle! Suitable for children aged 5 and over, this activity is great for the whole family's memory and logic. Do you prefer dragon, landscape or animal puzzles? Use the included template or challenge yourself to complete the puzzle on your own, to challenge your brain!

The 100-piece jigsaw puzzle is the perfect way to learn a child's favorite theme! The greater the number of pieces, the greater the "wow" effect when the puzzle is finished. To guarantee calm and concentration, suggest a dinosaur puzzle or a world map puzzle to children aged 6 or 7: they'll enjoy learning as they complete the activity.

From 100 pieces upwards, puzzles are richer, inviting young and old to take the time to observe every detail. As with a panoramic puzzle, for example: accompanied by explanations, the puzzle becomes a real learning aid. A puzzle depicting a famous painting or work of art is a great initiation for little artists, enabling them to discover famous painters like Klimt or Da Vinci while having fun!

Puzzle 150 to 499 pieces: challenge and observation, ages 7 to 8

Take the time to get together, alone or with others, to solve a puzzle of 200 pieces or more: for children aged 7 and over, and even for older children, the richness and poetry of the illustrations invite you to take a break away from your screens.

A walk in the garden? An afternoon in Paris? How about a cruise? With a jigsaw puzzle, anything is possible without leaving the comfort of home!

500 to 2000-piece jigsaw puzzle: relaxation and escape on the agenda

Ready for a challenge? Choose a 500-piece puzzle! Immersive and dreamlike, adults and children aged 8 and over love them. Beautiful landscapes, animals... Here you go, alone or with your family, for a relaxing activity that stimulates your brain. The puzzle's 500-piece size gives it a certain complexity, but above all a certain beauty: how satisfying once it's assembled!

Find the dimensions of all our Janod puzzles over 500 pieces on our product sheets and on the back of the box. These are puzzles you'll want to make, frame and display at home!

All our 500+ piece puzzles are made in Europe from FSC®-certified cardboard!

If you're already a jigsaw puzzle fan, the 1000-piece jigsaw puzzle doesn't scare you! Expand your collection or set yourself a new challenge with an original 1000-piece puzzle.

It's also a great gift idea that promises entertainment and relaxation, all in the comfort of your own home.

You can find out the size of your Janod 1000-piece puzzle on the back of the box and directly on our online product sheets, for a fun and engaging activity that leaves plenty of room for escape!

Educational jigsaw puzzle: assemble and learn, ages 2 to 10

Adding real educational value to a puzzle is a great way for kids to learn without even noticing! From ages 2 to 10, children can manipulate the pieces of their educational jigsaw puzzle, making learning more concrete. Number or alphabet puzzles for pre-schoolers, human body puzzles for natural science enthusiasts: the number of pieces is adapted to the youngest children, who enjoy learning while having fun!

What better way to start learning geography than with a world map puzzle! Children use the colors and illustrations to place the pieces of their world map puzzle in the right place: a great way to learn how to find their bearings in space and learn about the cultures of the world's countries!

For Jurassic fans, the 200-piece dinosaur puzzle combines challenge and learning in the world of dinos. And for volume creations, a 3D dinosaur puzzle is a great construction set that you can keep once assembled to decorate your bedroom!

Do they dream of being astronauts? Give them a space puzzle! With the included educational booklet, the planets will no longer hold any secrets for them!

What to do once you've put the puzzle together? Play a game of seek and find, of course! With an observation puzzle, the base becomes a real game board, with a multitude of elements hidden in the background for little ones to find. Firemen's puzzle or fairytale puzzle: here's a game that combines motor skills, concentration, logic and observation!

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Observation Puzzle - Garden

Observation Puzzle - Garden

Following the days and seasons has never been easier! With this Seek and Find puzzle-type game, children aged 4 years and up will better understand the concept of passing time and work on their observation skills. This scalable educational game boasts an activity on each side! The top-side features the events of a day: little ones can then assemble the wooden puzzle pieces, before rotating them to ensure they match on 3 levels. This will help your toddler learn how daily life is broken up and the different periods, from morning to night. On the back of this educational puzzle, the seasons are within reach: your child can also assemble the pieces and move them around to reconstruct the 4 seasons. It's a great way of transforming the concept of time – which little ones find rather abstract – into something very concrete, thanks to the manipulation aspect! Your child will discover pretty nature settings and small animals on both sides of this wooden puzzle. They’ll also have a ball spinning the pieces! This educational game is not just a simple round puzzle, it is also a Seek and Find game which promotes toddlers’ concentration and observation skills! Place the cover provided over one of the sides, then ask your child to find the 10 hidden elements on each puzzle (i.e. 20 in total). Clever design: the 3 cut-outs on the cover allow you to restrict the observation area: ideal for developing visual acuity! This educational game for nursery-age children consists of: 1 round wooden base, 12 wooden puzzle pieces, 20 cards and 1 cardboard cover. This observation puzzle will plunge children into the fun garden world; this environment is teeming with curiosities and ever-evolving, depending on the time of day and seasons. You can have a helping hand in your child’s learning by guiding them as they complete the puzzle, or encouraging them to observe nature through the window or during your next outing; this will reinforce the concept to help them make the connection with the illustrations on the board. This garden-themed Seek and Find game is made from FSC™-certified wood and cardboard. It is part of the Janod educational range, developed in collaboration with a school teacher to ensure the best possible fit with the learning and curriculum at each level.

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Nature puzzles are a great way to teach children about ecology and environmental protection! As children assemble the pieces, they discover key elements for a better understanding of green energy or recycling, the importance of the ecosystem, and learn more about endangered animal species. With the help of the animal-shaped puzzle pieces, children can expand their vocabulary and knowledge of footprints and where certain species live.

At Janod, we believe that a good educational game is one that allows children to learn without realizing it, while having fun! Our aim is to offer games that are fun, educational and always have an educational value. Whatever the age, whatever the toy, our aim is to help children discover their own world, and prepare them for the world of tomorrow!

From kindergarten to CM1, we offer a wide choice of wooden and/or cardboard toys and games, to help you develop your child's full potential through play. Follow the guide to find the educational games that will support all their learning!

Magnetic puzzle: build again and again, from age 3

Does your child prefer volume puzzles that can be assembled endlessly without the pieces moving? Choose a magnetic puzzle! The pieces are easy for little hands to manipulate, and make concrete an element that may be abstract for the youngest. Practical: the puzzle can be hung on the wall to decorate the room and always be available for little ones. With its magnetic puzzle, your child aged 3 and over can put his puzzle together on any magnetized surface: it's time to explore!

Discover the world with a magnetic world puzzle: little ones are guided by the different colors and illustrations representing a specific feature of each country. Available in several languages, for even more learning!

With a magnetic France puzzle, you can travel the length and breadth of France without leaving home! The 93 magnetic pieces of this map of France puzzle invite you to discover the departments and regions on any magnetic surface: let's go on a tour of France! And if you want to go even further, Europe is waiting for you with a magnetic Europe puzzle. You can even discover Italy, Spain or Germany with a puzzle: learning geography is even more fun with magnets!

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Puzzle tips: 6 tips for successful puzzles

Set-up, organization ... If you want your puzzle activity to remain a fun puzzle and your patience not to be tested, follow our best practices and tips for completing your puzzle!

1. Choosing the right puzzle

This should be easy if you've followed our guide's recommendations! Once you've settled on a motif or illustration, there are a few things to bear in mind when choosing a puzzle.

For children, it's a question of considering the age recommended on the box and the simplicity of the model. If the child is experienced, you can offer more complex puzzles with richer illustrations, without necessarily taking into account the age mentioned on the box. At Janod, we're committed to offering a wide variety of puzzles to suit all ages, levels and tastes!

The size of the pieces is also important, as the smaller they are, the more difficult they are to identify and assemble.

The number of pieces is an important criterion: if you're a beginner, choose a puzzle with a maximum of a hundred pieces. The greater the number of pieces, the longer it will take you to complete your puzzle!

Beyond the complexity of the illustrations, the shades of color also play a crucial role in the puzzle's complexity. The more colors there are, the easier it will be to assemble. On the other hand, if all or part of your puzzle is made up of a solid or almost solid color, your patience and logic will be called upon even more!

2. Organizing space

Now you've got your puzzle: you can't wait to get started, can you? But wait a minute! Before you get started, it's important to anticipate and organize where you're going to set up.

If you don't, you run the risk of being surprised halfway through by a puzzle sticking out of the table, and having to start all over again to assemble it somewhere else! To prevent this from happening, all Janod de puzzle dimensions are listed on each online product sheet.

Make sure your space is not in a high-traffic area or a living room. Bear in mind that it will probably take you several sessions over several days to complete your puzzle, so avoid being interrupted or disturbed by passing pets, for example.

Choose a space or table that is not intended for guests or other activities. This will save you a lot of frustration and guarantee you a calm environment in which to complete your puzzle.

3. Create your own atmosphere

You're about to embark on an activity that will take you several hours to complete. Once you've chosen and organized your space, and to make assembling your puzzle a real moment of relaxation and escape, create your own atmosphere! Relaxing background music to soothe your thoughts, energetic music to keep the pace, or simply your favorite playlist; or, on the contrary, complete calm. A comfortable armchair or chair, your favorite drink, and off you go for a moment that's all your own.

Make sure you don't neglect thelighting, however, and find the right compromise between a relaxing ambience and the brightness you need to complete your puzzle: it's all about seeing the pieces and their features clearly, so you can put them together in the right way.

4. Sorting parts

To avoid panicking when you open your puzzle and to get off to a good start, start by sorting the pieces. One by one, sort the pieces according to 2 criteria:

  • By shape: combine pieces with a straight edge. The aim is also to isolate the 4 pieces with 2 straight edges, which will form the corners of the puzzle.
  • By color: make small piles of pieces by color or pattern. The aim is to save time when you need to assemble a particular element or illustration.

You can also use small bins to organize the pieces so they don't get lost.

5. Start with the edges

Once you've sorted the pieces, you can easily identify those with edges. Use them to start assembling your puzzle, forming the corners and then the frame, before moving on to the filling. This method saves you a lot of time!

6. Taking breaks

Putting together a puzzle should remain a relaxing and entertaining activity. If you find yourself getting frustrated or stuck, don't hesitate to take a break, leave the puzzle aside and come back to it with clearer ideas. With a new point of view, the location of a piece can quickly become more obvious!

There's no need to set yourself a time target for completing your puzzle. Completing it is a challenge in itself, so there's no need to stress out if you don't finish your puzzle in a given time! It's always nice to take an hour for yourself, and relaxing over a puzzle is an even more beneficial occupation!

Puzzle-making is a time-consuming activity, ideal for occupying your time in a playful way. But time can go by very quickly and, captivated by your puzzle, you may be surprised to find that you've put aside certain obligations! Make sure you don't get bogged down in the puzzle-making process, taking regular breaks and spreading the work out over several days if necessary.

What are the benefits of puzzles?

As well as being an activity that children love, puzzles enable them to acquire many skills that are essential for their development. For adults and children alike, puzzles have positive effects on our brain and cognitive functions:

  • To develop baby's fine motor skills: Recessed puzzles help baby learn to find his bearings while manipulating a variety of shapes. The child takes ownership of the support and enjoys putting the pieces back in the right place, developing dexterity and beginning to recognize animals, letters and numbers.

  • Stimulate 8 visuo-spatial functions: Solving puzzles stimulates perception, constructive praxis (a set of functions that enable the reconstruction of a whole from separate elements with spatial relationships between them), mental rotation, flexibility, working memory, speed, reasoning and episodic memory.

  • Relaxing and having fun in the quiet: Puzzle-making is the quiet activity we all think of first, and for good reason! Young and old alike quickly lose track of time and embark on a journey into the world of their choice. It's also an inexpensive activity that, coupled with a healthy lifestyle, helps reduce stress.

  • Self-confidence: Whether we follow a model or not, we're proud to show off our finished puzzle. It's a real pleasure to progress to a puzzle with a higher number of pieces!

Advice from psychomotricists:

Anaïs CLERC and Gaëlle BLERVAQUE are state-qualified psychomotricians. They explain the benefits of puzzles for children's development, and give advice on how to use puzzles in the family:

How to develop visual, constructive and language skills with puzzles

When and why to give a puzzle to a child

"When you give a puzzle to a child, or an adult for that matter (and yes, there's no age limit), you're contributing to the development of their visuo-spatial skills.

This skill area is defined as the neurological process of visually analyzing, integrating and reproducing the spatial characteristics of an element or ensemble in a given space. These skills are called upon at all times in our daily lives. We need them when we're learning to write and read (recognizing the shape of letters, numbers and words), when we're putting down an operation in mathematics, when we're learning traffic signs, or when we're finding our way around a map or chart.

An activity like putting together a puzzle doesn't require graphic skills, however, the child must be able to identify the shape of each piece." Read more

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