Friday, July 8, 2011

Fun With Mazes

It's so exciting to see Reese gravitate towards certain types of activities...it's pretty telling about how his brain works.  So two years ago, when he received a Kumon Maze Book as a birthday gift, I loved watching him tear into it & work away at solving the puzzles.

The Kumon maze books started simple, & worked towards more complicated solutions.  One of my favorite things about Kumon workbooks is the paper quality!  Nice, thick paper & colorful designs make them very appealing.  Reese would ask daily to do a maze as part of our school work, & I happily obliged!

After we finished a handful of Kumon books, I wanted something a little more challenging, & I came across The Everything Kids' Mazes Book.  Visually, it's a little busier than Kumon books, but I really liked the variety of puzzle problems.  Hidden pictures, geometric mazes, multiple-starting-point mazes...all sorts of great stuff!

One of the very best parts about The Everything Kids' Mazes Book, though, is that for each maze, there is a theme.  Terrific Turtles.  Sweet Trees.  Sacred Cats.  Flying Fish.  Each maze has a paragraph with information relating to the topic.  For example, Flying Fish tells all about actual fish that can "fly" out of the water (we've seen these on cruises...really neat!).  So not only will your child work on logical thinking skills, you can sneak in some reading practice & science study as well! 

Incorporating different types of thinking activities is important...I want Reese to be as strong as possible in all sorts of thought processes.  By adding mazes to our day, it's been a fun way to develop problem solving!

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