Brain Teasers & Thinking Games for Kids

What is more fun and satisfy than giving your child a great gift providing him not just a fun, enjoyable toy to play with but also a learning and developing tool.

Well, what does your child need?

Many tools exist to help develop their self-confidence, memory skills, improve spatial and visual perception, concentration and paying attention abilities, creativity and more.

So how to choose what they need and love at the same time?

The answer is to make their free time a quality time. Following the title “Learning is Fun”. Or more specifically; Brain Teasers and Thinking Games.

Playing computer games or watching TV are activities can be relaxing and fun but they are also limiting your child chances to understand logic and reason at an early age. As a parent, grandparent or an older brother who wishes to get closer to the kid and help him learn brain teasers and thinking games bring learning and enjoyment, another thing is that the kid feels not alone in doing an interesting-fun-learning activity.

Brain teasers are puzzles that require all the above characteristics to solve and those stimulating, sharpening and developing them. They force the brain to think outside the box and provide new solutions to a problem. Encouraging your child to play with puzzles develops their cognitive thinking skills and concentration skills. Brain teasers and thinking games for kids can come in many forms including puzzles, riddles, mazes and optical illusions. They are all cool since they are excellent learning and developing tool and they are not at all boring.

So, what are they improving?

Disentanglement and Interlocking games will need concentration and paying attention to details, disentanglement puzzles solving require fair amount of spatial and visual perception and the ability to place 3D object in space, while interlocking, sometimes require few steps to release the first part, improving your ability to learn and deduce, plan in advance and be patient while moving.

Lateral thinking puzzles and Riddles requires creativity and outside the box thinking.

Question
There are six eggs in the basket.
Six people each take one of the eggs.
How can it be that one egg is left in the basket?

How about Concentration and paying attention improving?
Solving brainteasers such as logic puzzles will help your general ability to recognize complex patterns and also improve your concentration. To have a clear thinking, opt for a brainteaser game that includes optical illusion, which will certainly help in concentration and they are such a fun to play indeed.

Answer
The last person took the basket with
the last egg still inside.

The outcome is curious kids who are ready to learn and explore new things. Kids with self confidence that feel they are smart will not be afraid to try or experiment new things that are important in their growing up years.

Give your child a gift.