when my son was 4, really anywhere from 2-5, he LOVED those big floor puzzles that showed shapes, numbers and letters...his favorites were long train puzzles that you put together, big sized pieces that stretched across the living room floor, and each train car carried a letter in one puzzle and a number in the other puzzle....so one train had A-Z and the other had 1-20....so he'd build the puzzles and then we'd play with them...like i'd tell him to "find the number 5" or "find the letter T" and then we'd play "what starts with T?" and he's always say "Tyrell" because our buddy Tyrell had gotten him that puzzle for his birthday
i love educational stuff, especially if the parents can get involved like that....like i'd tell him to go "jump over the letter B" and he'd go hop across that puzzle piece...or he'd find things that start with C and pile them on that particular puzzle piece
we had SO much fun with those...in fact, just this week, and he's almost 6, we bought a 550-piece puzzle to do and we've been working on it at the kitchen table during spring break
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