Shape Puzzle & Sorting Clock

Description

The Shapes Sound Puzzle has pieces of different shapes and colors that make sounds when they are placed in the right part of the puzzle. The Shape Sorting Clock features brightly-colored numbers and shapes that fit in their proper place on the face of the clock. The hour and minute hand help your child learn to tell time. Both of these items are great educational toys.

Why we love it

The Shapes Sound Puzzle is great for a 2 year old because it is a self-correcting shapes puzzle with bright colors. The puzzle says the name of the shape as it is correctly placed in the puzzle helping a child learn different shapes. The Shape Sorting Clock receives our seal of approval because it is a high quality, wooden toy that will grow with your child because it teaches colors, shapes, numbers, and of course, how to tell time.

Product Features

• This Shape Puzzle & Sorting Clock is a great puzzle because it reinforces the visual shape recognition with an audio cue. This will help your little one remember their shapes better. Also, it moves beyond beginning shapes by adding a pentagon,  an octagon and a trapezoid.
• Your child will begin by being able to place three to four of the puzzle pieces without help. With practice, he/she will recognize all the shapes on his/her own.
• Have your toddler practice their language skills by naming the shape, its color and the picture hiding beneath it.
• As learning toys go, this puzzle is also great at sharpening your child’s observation skills because it connects the shapes to real world examples. For instance, a pizza slice is a triangle. Ask you child to think of other familiar items that are the same shape. You can extend this game past the puzzle and have your little one observe his/her surrounding while you are out around town. Play “I Spy” as he/she find shapes in everyday things.
• Hide the pieces around the room and have your child play “hot/cold” to find them. When he/she finds a piece have him/her name the color and shape.
• Ask your child to follow two or three step directions to hide the pieces himself/herself. For example, “Put the star under the table and the circle next to the chair.” This will improve his/her listening and sequencing skills.
• Your toddler can take the pieces out of the puzzle and trace them on a piece of paper. Then he/she can use the shapes he/she drew to create a picture of a familiar item, like trace  an oval and turn it into an airplane. 
• This is a colorful puzzle with blocks of various shapes that your child will try to match with the openings on the clock. The shapes are more challenging than some other shape puzzles. You can name these shapes for your little one and count the number of sides they have-- pentagon has five sides, hexagon has six sides, octagon has eight sides.
• Your child will also notice the numbers on the blocks. You can review these numbers with them and their position on the clock. Your child will begin to learn number recognition and be able  to match the numbers back in the puzzle by number.
• Start to teach your toddler about time by drawing a picture that looks the same as the child’s clock. Have him/her move the hands on the clock puzzle to copy the time you draw. Your fist example should be on the hour (1 o’clock).
• Take digital pictures of the clock puzzle set to different times and make a ‘Time Book’ by writing the times under pictures. It will help your child recognize the passage of time throughout the day if your connect what he/she is learning with the activities that go on in his/her day. Add pictures or words of these activities to the “Time Book,” such as “6:00pm dinner, bath.”)

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Age: 2 ½ year +

Manufacturer: Melissa & Doug

Price: $17.95

Item Number: 500-022-0-23

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