‘New Year’s Puzzle’

About the game

Santa, Christmas trees, snowmen and Christmas presents are all mixed up amongst the triangular pieces. Where is the reindeer’s other half, and how do you put the sledge together properly? Try to piece together all the festive pictures!

‘Christmas Puzzle’ is a wooden jigsaw in a hexagonal frame. The child arranges the triangular pieces so that complete images of Christmas characters and objects form where the pieces meet. To do this, they need to match the halves of the pictures, rotate the pieces and look for the right combinations.

Every pair they find is another small piece of the big Christmas picture.

In the set

• a hexagonal frame measuring 24 × 28 cm
• 24 triangular pieces: when joined together, they form halves of festive pictures
• Father Christmas, a Christmas tree, snowmen, animals, toys, presents and a sledge

How to play

1. Take out the triangles.
2. The child looks for the matching halves of the pictures.
3. Assemble the hexagon so that all the pictures are complete.

Where to start

Start with the corner triangle and look for its neighbours.

Game variations

• ‘Find the matching pair’;
• name all the pictures;
• assemble as quickly as possible.

What children can practise

• logic and concentration
• spatial reasoning
• speech

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.