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Retail Stores @ 118 Maling Rd Canterbury (Near Canterbury Train Station) Open Monday-Saturday 9:30am-5pm Call 130 000 3126 | Chadstone Shopping Centre (near Baby Bunting )
Puzzles are more than just a fun activity. They provide children with hands-on opportunities to develop problem-solving skills, spatial awareness, and logical thinking. Engaging with puzzles encourages focus, patience, and persistence, helping children build confidence as they work through challenges.
At My Playroom, our collection of puzzles is carefully selected to be developmentally appropriate, safe, and engaging. From simple shape-sorting puzzles for toddlers to more complex jigsaw puzzles for preschoolers, each puzzle promotes active learning and creative thinking.
Puzzles support cognitive and motor development across multiple stages. For babies and toddlers, simple puzzles with large pieces help improve hand-eye coordination, fine motor skills, and shape recognition. Preschoolers benefit from more complex puzzles that require planning, sequencing, and critical thinking.
Puzzles are particularly valuable when children need to develop concentration and problem-solving skills. They encourage trial and error, experimentation, and reflection, allowing children to learn resilience and self-confidence as they complete each challenge.
Engaging with puzzles offers a range of developmental benefits. Fine motor skills are strengthened as children grasp, rotate, and fit pieces together. Cognitive skills such as spatial reasoning, pattern recognition, and logical thinking are developed as children work to complete the puzzle.
Puzzle play also supports emotional and social growth. Children learn patience, perseverance, and how to collaborate when solving puzzles with siblings or friends. Completing a puzzle provides a sense of achievement that reinforces confidence and encourages independent play.
Puzzles are most effective when incorporated into regular play routines. Providing a dedicated space on a table and chair or on a soft playmat encourages focus and allows children to engage deeply with their puzzle activity.
Using shelf or storage solutions to organise puzzles helps children access and return them independently, fostering responsibility and a habit of care. Supervised sessions allow children to experiment safely with new challenges, gradually increasing difficulty to match their skill level.
While puzzles are valuable on their own, combining them with other play experiences can extend learning. Children may pair puzzles with activity toys to enhance problem-solving, explore magnetic tiles or marble run games to extend spatial thinking, or integrate soft plush toys and imaginative play scenarios for creative storytelling.
This approach helps children connect skills across different types of play, supporting cognitive flexibility, planning, and creative thinking while keeping puzzles at the center of learning.
At My Playroom, we select puzzles that are safe, durable, and designed to engage children at every stage of development. Each puzzle encourages learning, concentration, and creativity while making play enjoyable and rewarding.
You can shop our puzzles in-store in Melbourne to see and feel the quality firsthand, or browse online with fast shipping across Australia to ensure children can start exploring and developing their skills without delay. Our collection provides children with opportunities to grow, learn, and have fun through hands-on problem-solving every day.
Stunning letter puzzle in a natural tone. The simplicity has not only reveal the beauty of the timber but also make it less distract to the child. ...
View full detailsLeaf puzzle encouraging fine motor and hand-eye coordination while connecting with nature. Knobs on each puzzle piece perfect for little hands.All ...
View full detailsThe perfect puzzle to open up conversations about feelings and emotions in a simplistic but engaging way, and to aid confidence through a range of ...
View full detailsOur chunky shape puzzle offers a greater challenge after using our single shape puzzles. Opposing shapes have been placed beside one another to he...
View full detailsTo understand exactly how to sort the shapes, children need to understand the relationship between the shape of the small part and the shape of the...
View full detailsIntroducing your little one as young as 18 months to their first shape puzzle. This simple puzzle includes a triangle, circle, and square to encour...
View full detailsBecome familiar with the names of various fruits by playing with Inlay board fruits. Wooden puzzle frame (29 x 29 cm) with 10 lift-out shapes.
The ladder has to go on the fire engine, which must first stand firmly, and then the fire-fighters are supposed to go on the ladder. Dexterity and ...
View full detailsWhich animals live in Africa? Finish the 48 piece puzzle and you will find out. Dimensions 40 x 30cm Age suitability 3+
A 4 layered wooden puzzle that shows the 4 seasons: spring, summer, autumn, winter. All layers contain 7 puzzle pieces. Birch plywood Size 34 x 22...
View full detailsIntroduce inquisitive children to the concept of opposites with this exploration of our fascinating forms of transport, in the air and on land. The...
View full detailsBrighten up any adventure with the Magnetic Fun & Games Rainbow set by Floss & Rock! Bursting with vibrant colours and charming rainbow-the...
View full detailsBright, bold, and bursting with emotion, WerkShoppe Snax 100 Pc Puzzle – Velvet Heart is a vivid celebration of colour, creativity, and love. This ...
View full detailsA game of observation and patience. Perfectly reconstruct the image on the challenge card using the 16 cubes. The wooden frame helps children slot ...
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Viga Toys Wooden Alphabet Uppercase Block Puzzle Early Literacy Developmental Toys Toddler Toys 18m+
The Viga Block Puzzle Alphabet Upper Case is the perfect introduction to the world of letters. Designed to engage young learners through hands-on, ...
View full detailsA fire engine can be puzzled here in layers - your child will learn about the firefighters' equipment with this clever wooden puzzle. Age recomm...
View full detailsTake a ride with this beautifully illustrated 36-piece floor puzzle. The jumbo, sturdy pieces of this high-quality puzzle are ideal for little hand...
View full detailsSwing into puzzle time with WerkShoppe Snax 48 Piece Puzzle – In the Jungle! This vibrant, compact jigsaw takes little ones on a rainforest adventu...
View full detailsThe play set includes 50 magnetic pieces with 4 double sized scene cards and can be stored away easily in the themed storage box with band. Have to...
View full detailsISBN: 9780711287082 Nutcracker musical jigsaw puzzle: Featuring four 10-second sound clips of an orchestra playing from Tchaikovsky's original scor...
View full detailsTruckloads of puzzle fun! Three happy trucks are on the way to their next destination. They need to pick up a load of packages, but will the...
View full detailsInspire little builders with this construction themed, 12-piece mini puzzle, all wrapped up in a unique contour-shaped storage box. Perfect for puz...
View full detailsIt’s unicorns and rainbows and all things sweet in this 12-piece mini puzzle all wrapped up in a unique contour-shaped storage box. Perfect for puz...
View full detailsThis Hape Colour and Shape Sorter is an ideal first shape sorting board, introducing children to problem solving and spatial relations. Children wi...
View full detailsLondji My First Seven Puzzle Description This puzzle is not only engaging but also educational, designed to captivate young minds with its vibrant ...
View full detailsPut together a gang of exotic animals with this 12-piece puzzle from Mudpuppy. The Zoo Animals Pouch Puzzle features extra-thick pieces perfect for...
View full detailsA classic wooden puzzle for little hands. Place each piece onto the board or finish the puzzle on a plain surface. Helps to develop dexterity, matc...
View full detailsPotatoes are part of many people's staple diet. These roots grow underground and are usually of a yellowish colour when peeled. Ages 3yrs + Con...
View full detailsLearn the remarkable transformation or metamorphosis of a butterfly. This 5 layered jigsaw puzzle helps children to recognize the different stages ...
View full detailsThis puzzle is all about recognising, correlating, and understanding our five senses: vision, hearing, smell, tasting and touch. These aspects will...
View full detailsLooking for an exciting puzzle to introduce your children to the lower-case letters of the alphabet? Our coloured alphabet lowercase puzzle is the ...
View full detailsThis set contains wooden building blocks that improve precise hand, finger, thumb, and wrist movements, coordination, and ability to think spatiall...
View full detailsThe little puzzlers will be amazed when they hear the take-off sound of the aircraft. We will not reveal all the other vehicle sounds. Ding-a-ling....
View full detailsPuzzle Size (Each): 24.5 (L) x 24.5 (W) x 2.5cm (H)
The Very Hungry Caterpillar 4 in 1 Wooden Puzzle Box Developmental Toys for Toddlers Gift Idea 3yrs+
From The World of Eric Carle comes The Very Hungry Caterpillar 4 in 1 Wooden Puzzle set!A high quality, compartmentalised wooden box makes storage ...
View full detailsThe Very Hungry Caterpillar™ helps teach children colours and shapes with this 2-sided floor puzzle. One side features a beautiful rainbow filled w...
View full detailsBy keeping the circle puzzle constant of shape this allows children to concentrate on which size circle matches which hole. Measuring 20cmx8cm
Learn different kinds of vegetables. Wooden puzzle frame (29 x 29 cm) with 10 lift-out shapes.
Knob puzzle Geometric shapes. Contains 12 pieces. The lift out pieces have large knobs for easy maneuvering. Wooden frame: 34 x 34 cm. This inlay ...
View full detailsThis set includes: 4 chunky colorful designs featuring dinosaurs: Steggie, Terry, Trex and Tricia 4 high-quality cardboard jigsaw puzzles in 2, 3, ...
View full detailsA, B, C, D! Learning the alphabet is great fun! Can you learn the letters right through to Z? This colourful puzzle provides children with an intro...
View full detailsThe apple is a round fruit with a skin, fruit flesh and core. It grows on an apple tree. Apples are very healthy. They can be eaten just raw, but t...
View full detailsLearn the life cycle of a frog. Each layer of the puzzle is numbered. This stunning puzzle shows development from an egg, tadpole and through to a...
View full detailsCelebrate Aussie animals and their surroundings with our 24-piece giant floor puzzle featuring stunning artwork by Dunghutti Artist Aunty Cynthia ...
View full detailsMore cute than creepy, but they are crawly! This puzzle makes delightful bedroom or playroom art when framed! About the Artist Bianca Palazzi is a...
View full detailsIntroduce inquisitive children to the concept of opposites with this exploration of dinosaurs, both above and below the earth. The jumbo, sturd...
View full detailsThis 30 piece puzzle set will help your child to identify and create the visual link between the numeral, the written word of the number and the ab...
View full detailsGoki Building Site Construction Vehicles Wooden Puzzle – 12pcs | Cognitive Developmental Toys for Kids 2yrs+ Bring the excitement of the constructi...
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