Puzzle Play
Puzzles are great ways to help kids build a variety of cognitive skills. You can make your own puzzle by cutting apart any picture.
Puzzles are a great way to help kids build cognitive skills like problem solving, spatial relations, visual memory, and shape recognition. You can make your own puzzle by cutting apart any picture, even a page torn from a magazine.
Print this page and have kids color it. Then cut it apart. The puzzle pieces don’t have to be fancy; you can just cut a few straight or zig-zag lines (kids can do the cutting themselves, too). Then, help kids put it back together.
6 Ways to Practice Nurturing Parenting
Tips from a pediatrician on understanding, empathizing with, encouraging, and positively guiding children.
For Providers: Using These Resources
Print and refer to this page as you implement the materials in this initiative.
Parenting Moment: Describing
The way you talk with children matters! Your words have power.
Parenting Moment: Imitating
Playing is learning! The way you play with children matters… your actions and words have power.
Parenting Moment: Reflecting
The way you talk with children matters… your words have power!
Milestones: Your Five-Year-Old
All children grow and develop at their own pace; use this chart to guide your expectations and observations so you can talk to your child’s pediatrician about questions or concerns.
Milestones: Your Six-Year-Old
All children grow and develop at their own pace; use this chart to guide your expectations and observations so you can talk to your child’s pediatrician about questions or concerns.
