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What age for a 24-piece puzzle?

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#1 ·
I was talking about this with a friend and we were wondering... what age is average/early/late for a child to do a 24 piece jigsaw puzzle unsupervised? Google is being VERY unhelpful!
 
#7 ·
Honestly I think it really does depend on the individual child. My DD loved doing puzzles and could put together a 24 piece puzzle at 3 easily. However, my DS (32 months) gets pretty frustrated with puzzles and I'm not sure he will be able to put together a 24 piece one anytime soon.
 
#8 ·
It would be one of those melissa and doug wooden ones with a straight edge and wooden frame around it. Also, their pictures are fairly well balanced with the size of the pieces, so you're matching Lion's nose with Lion's face, not meaningless swirl with other meaningless swirl - I'd say it's a relatively easy puzzle.

Interesting answers so far, thanks!
 
#10 ·
DD got her first one last Christmas at 3.5. She needed some help at first, but it was a fairly complex puzzle, with irregular borders. Now, she gets it out and does it sometimes when she's bored, but it takes her no time at all.
 
#11 ·
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Originally Posted by treemom2 View Post
Honestly I think it really does depend on the individual child. My DD loved doing puzzles and could put together a 24 piece puzzle at 3 easily. However, my DS (32 months) gets pretty frustrated with puzzles and I'm not sure he will be able to put together a 24 piece one anytime soon.
ITA!
 
#15 ·
DD got one of those 24 piece Melissa and Doug puzzles for xmas last year and could do it on her own after doing it with me a few times... she was 2 years 4 months at the time. She got a 48 piece M&D puzzle, too and can do that one, as well... but she sometimes loses interest before she's done, too.

She's always liked puzzles, though.
 
#16 ·
Yep, totally depends on a combination of the child's interest, previous experience with jigsaw puzzles, patience/attention span and visual-spatial ability. Neither of my children was much into puzzles; they have other interests. At three, neither could do a 24 piece jigsaw but then again, we had never spent any time working on puzzles together and I am personally not interested (I struggle with visual-spatial tasks) so I didn't necessarily encourage it!
 
#17 ·
DD is really into puzzles and has been doing the 24 piece one we have since about 2.5, it's a simple rectangle one. Though she still hasn't quite got that all the edge pieces have straight sides


It says 4+ on the box but I'd get one for a child of 2 -3. I'd much rather get a puzzle that they need a bot of help with a first than one thats too easy. I got a few simple wooden ones in a sale that I saved for DD and she hardly used them.
 
#18 ·
One of my 3yo has been doing them for about a year, teh other is just starting. My 2yo can't do a 24 piece puzzle by herself, but she can sometimes do the 12 piece M&D ones. And she can help put in the pieces of the 48 piece ones.
 
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