Wooden puzzle (frame-and-piece) ‘Amazing Animals – 2’

About the game

What happens if you combine a fox’s head with a panda’s body and a fawn’s legs? In this game, you can create animals that nobody has ever seen before! Or you can try to put together each familiar character correctly.

‘Amazing Animals – 2’ is a wooden jigsaw puzzle consisting of three pieces for each animal: a head, a body and legs. Children can assemble a fox, a sheep, a raccoon, an owl, a panda and a fawn, or swap the pieces around to create fantastic combinations.

The six familiar animals can be transformed into countless funny characters that the child can invent themselves.

In the set

• a 32 × 23 cm frame with 6 windows
• 18 pieces: 3 parts each (head, torso, legs) for 6 characters — a fox, a lamb, a raccoon, an owl, a panda and a fawn

How to play

1. Take out the pieces.
2. The child assembles each character from three parts.
3. Now do the opposite — mix up the parts and come up with some funny ‘new’ animals.

Where to start

Start with 2 characters.

Game variations

• assemble correctly;
• invent a new animal and a name for it;
• ‘Who’s got the waistcoat?’.

What children can practise

• the ‘part–whole’ concept
• imagination and speech
• attention to detail

Who it’s for

Children aged 3 and over; at home, at kindergarten, or during lessons with a teacher.

Material

Wood-based board (pressed wood), bright print.