The jigsaw puzzle was invented in 1767 by a teacher in England. He pasted maps of Europe on wood then cut them out to teach children geography. About 1870 the interlocking jigsaw puzzle was introduced. In 1880 Milton Bradley introduced the first jigsaw puzzle just for kids. It was a picture of a locomotive cut into several pieces.
Share the history of the jigsaw puzzle and the story about the Prince and Princess of Toys and their jigsaw puzzles with your children….Feel free to add to the story when you put your children to bed.
Do your children become frustrated when they try to assemble a jigsaw puzzle with interlocking pieces?? Do you have to help your children assemble the jigsaw puzzle??
Your children will enjoy assembling wooden jigsaw puzzles that are educational and easy to piece together. Wooden jigsaw puzzles will last for many years and can be passed from sibling to sibling, thereby saving money for mom and dad.
Our solid wooden jigsaw puzzles are not interlocking. The jigsaw puzzles have large pieces that fit together rather than fit into a pre shaped frame or lock together which makes assembly easier and fun J for your children.
The large pieces of the jigsaw puzzles are light weight and easy for your young children to handle. Jigsaw puzzles are educational toys that help children learn colors and shapes of things they see or read about.
The Duke of Toys children Prince GaMes and Princess WidGet liked to sit at their wooden table (see kids furniture) designed for children and assemble the wooden jigsaw puzzles that the Wood Workers Guild 001 had made for them. Most of the wooden jigsaw puzzles were in shapes of things the children saw when traveling through the Dukedom. These educational toys help the Prince and Princess learn more about the things that they saw in the Duke of Toys kingdom.
The BIG wooden pieces of the jigsaw puzzles were easy for the Prince and Princess to handle and assemble. Playing with the wooden jigsaw puzzle pieces helped to develop their hand & eye co- ordination and finger dexterity.
Mufstuf has an American Craftsman make several of the wooden jigsaw puzzles described in the Duke of Toys personal diary. Your children will have fun J and help improve their finger dexterity as they put our wooden jigsaw puzzles together. These American made toys will provide many hours of entertainment, fun, and education for your children.
