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At My Personalised Gifts we take great pleasure in providing you with Personalised and Fun Jigsaws. The extra feature of a child's own name makes it even more desirable and fun for the child to play with.

Big Chunky Floor Puzzles The large pieces make it easy for even small children to handle, and it also helps to develop their hand-eye co-ordination.	Big Chunky Nursery Rhyme Jigsaws These nursery rhyme jigsaws illustrate popular rhymes or at least a variants of them!
Counting 1 to 10 Jigsaws These are hand-made puzzles which are educational as well as fun!	Paint Your Own Jigsaws Each Set comes with four complete puzzles for you to colour in.
Personalised 40 Piece Jigsaws Completely personalised treasure for a very special child. These custom-made puzzles are educational as well as fun.	Personalised Character Photo Jigsaws Turn your favourite photograph into a gift that can be treasured as well as played with as an entertaining family puzzle.
Personalised Little Ones Name Jigsaws Smaller but chunky jigsaws for little ones to learn their name!	Personalised Phonic Jigsaws Each Phonic Jigsaw is custom-made, showing your child's name spelt out in large, brightly coloured lettering, with each letter accompanied by an animal whose name begins with the same letter.
Personalised Photo/Drawing Jigsaw Here's a puzzle made from a photograph, drawing or artwork that you send us.

As television and electronic games take up increasingly larger portions of children's play time, we may be inadvertently depriving kids of important tools for learning. Puzzles and board games, a staple of our own childhoods, serve several important educational functions in the lives of young children.

"Babies and young children learn through play." Penelope Leach, author and noted specialist in child development, voices the convictions of early childhood educators everywhere in this simple statement. While playthings like puzzles or board games may seem like a waste of time, or dull compared to the glitz of electronic media, children love them. And they provide kids with an opportunity to learn and practice many skills important for success in school.

Learning with puzzles
Puzzles help children learn to solve problems. By trying several ways to fit a puzzle piece in place, they are learning the value of flexible thinking, and of persistence. Their fine motor skills are sharpened by manipulating the pieces and fitting them in their proper space. Putting together a puzzle helps children actively practice important skills such as inference, deductive reasoning, and the notion that whole objects are generally made up of parts.

• Large-piece puzzles (wood or heavy cardboard)
  These toys work well for the younger pre-schooler, providing practice with eye/hand coordination, fine motor skills, and beginning experience in problem solving. Toddlers learn that if a piece doesn't fit one way, it may fit another and ultimately will fit somewhere if they keep trying.

• Smaller-piece puzzles
  These will continue developing the previous concepts, but older pre-schoolers will sharpen their skills by learning to look for more details in exploring where the pieces go. Are there colors that go together? Does part of the puzzle picture appear on one piece and have its match on another? Can the edges of the puzzle help give it form? These are the beginnings of developing strategies for accomplishing a task, which is a crucial part of effective learning.

The educational value of puzzles is enhanced when parents and children play them together. Puzzles and games provide an enjoyable means for you to share your child's delight in learning through play--one of the most important tasks of childhood.

At My Personalised Gifts we take great pleasure in providing you with Personalised Puzzles. This extra feature makes it even more desirable and fun for the child to pay with a puzzle with their own name on.

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