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Here, you'll find wooden jigsaw puzzles and sound puzzles for toddlers, easy jigsaw puzzles and floor puzzles for older children, intermediate puzzles (500-2000 pieces) for older puzzlers, and entertaining word games for the whole family to enjoy.

Farm Animal Jigsaw Puzzles

Young puzzlers with an affinity for country living will enjoy these puzzles featuring cows, horses, pigs, chickens and creatures and things associated with a rural lifestyle.

Chunky Puzzles

These puzzles for early learners have big, chunky pieces that are easy for little fingers to manipulate.

Alphabet Puzzles

Give the gift of literacy. These puzzles will help preschoolers develop their spatial skills while learning their ABCs and numbers.

Animal Puzzles for Children

These jigsaw puzzles are perfect for young animal lovers. Most of these puzzles have between 60 and 300 pieces and are meant for puzzlers between the ages of 5 and 10.

Christmas Puzzles for Kids

Tis the season to be puzzled! Here's a selection of free interactive games or printable puzzles with a Yuletide theme to keep children amused and entertained this holiday season.

Disney Puzzles

Disney fans, this is for you! Here you'll find jigsaw puzzles, word puzzles, magic eye puzzles and more featuring favorite characters from the world of Disney. Fun for kids of all ages!

Everything Kids' Puzzle Books

With hundreds of themed puzzles, The Everything Kids series will provide hours of fun for young puzzlers. Kids can learn about dinosaurs, hone their math skills, improve their spanish, or just enjoy themselves with themed puzzles on pirates, cars and trucks, crazy stuff or stuff that's just gross! Whatever their interests, these puzzles and activities are bound to entertain.

Fantasy Jigsaw Puzzles

These jigsaw puzzles feature unicorns, dragons, enchanted castles and other fantastic subjects. Most of these puzzles have between 60 and 300 pieces and are meant for puzzlers under age 10.

I SPY Puzzle Books

In this delightful series of children's books, author Jean Marzollo's riddles provide clues to objects hidden in stunning photographs by Walter Wick.

Kids' Crossword Puzzles

Crossword puzzles (and word games) are a great way for kids to develop vocabulary and spelling skills. And puzzle solving is beneficial not only as an entertaining pastime but also as a way to keep the mind flexible. Kids who start early will usually remain puzzle aficianados throughout their lives.

Kids' Word Games

These word games can help your kids learn the alphabet, improve spelling and grammar and develop logic, strategy and reasoning skills.

Kids' Word Search Puzzles

These word search puzzles are aimed at children and feature themes such as dinosaurs and other themes that youngsters are bound to enjoy.

Make Your Own Jigsaw Puzzles

Want to design and create your own jigsaw puzzle? Or organize a fun activity for kids in the classroom or a party? Here you'll find blank, pre-cut jigsaw puzzles of various sizes that you can color or paint to create your own masterpiece. Or, if you prefer to use the computer, there's software available to do just that.

Maps of the USA

These jigsaw puzzles are an excellent way for children to develop hand-eye coordination and problem solving skills, while teaching them the basic notions of geography. Most are designed with preschoolers in mind, though some are meant for puzzlers of middle school age.

Outer Space

These puzzles feature views of the earth, the galaxies, space transportation and other heavenly themes. Fun for puzzlers of all ages!

Palindrome Puzzles

A palindrome is a word, verse, sentence or poem which reads the same backwards as it does forwards. Here, you'll find a selection of books featuring this form of wordplay. Most of these books are meant for younger readers.

Pirate Puzzles

Shiver me timbers! Young buccaneers can enjoy these fun books, jigsaw puzzles and computer games that feature puzzles with a pirate theme.

Puzzles For Kids Under 5

Here are some puzzles designed to help preschoolers recognize numbers and letters as a first step to literacy.

Puzzles For Toddlers

Learning can be fun! And puzzles are a great way to teach preschoolers numbers and letters and develop motor skills. It's also an early introduction to problem solving and critical thinking. Here are some game suggestions for the youngsters in your life.

Scramble Squares

Scramble Squares have only nine colorfully illustrated square pieces, but the number of possible combinations in a 3 piece x 3 piece pattern is enormous with only one possible solution! Over 120 styles of colorful, original art on nature, sports, history, culture, geography, science, technology, occupations, gourmet, fantasy, hobbies and activities with more being added all the time.

Shop Online for Kids' Puzzles

Puzzles can help children develop spelling, grammar and critical thinking skills. If you're looking to buy puzzles for a young person in your life, here's a sampling of puzzles suitable for youngsters as young as 2.

Sudoku Books for Children

Now kids can enjoy these addictive Japanese number puzzles just like the grown-ups do! Excellent for trips or long waits, these books will help young solvers aged 8 and over improve their logic and math skills and assist them in developing patience and concentration.

Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends

Everyone's favorite tank engine is featured here along with his friends and other residents of the mythical island of Sodor.

Transportation and Heavy Equipment

If your child has a fondness for anything that goes Vroom!, then they'll enjoy these jigsaw puzzles and puzzle activity books.

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