You can improve your children’s skills in many ways. Puzzles, for example, can enhance kids’ visual and matching skills; besides, they help them gain knowledge while having fun. We can use puzzles for many educational fields. One of them is to learn new vocabulary about a certain topic like transportation. On the Sadeky website, we introduce a free transportation puzzle printable PDF to help parents and teachers to add more interaction while teaching their kids.
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How to use transportation puzzle printable
The transportation puzzle printable PDF consists of 16 two-piece puzzles containing the vehicle and its name. The PDF is finely designed with vibrant colors of high quality for printing. Let’s prepare our stuff to learn and play.
First, you have to download the transportation puzzle printable PDF from the link below, print it, and grab a thin piece of cardboard. Cut the piece of cardboard to suit the page size, start to glue them together, wait until the glue dries, then cut the puzzle pieces; you will end with 16 puzzle pieces divided into two parts. Now we can start to play.
Matching game
You have to read the names of the vehicles for your kid and tell him to repeat the names after you several times. Start with 4 vehicles and their names.
Place the pictures of the four vehicles on a table. Please put them in a row and put the names in another row, but unarranged. Ask your kid to match the name with the related picture. For each correct match, the kid gains a score. Or if we have 2 or more kids, the one who matches correctly wins.
Increase the number of pictures each time for more challenge.
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Flip and match
Let’s start with two rows, one for pictures and the other for the names. 4 pictures and 4 names as a start. Now let your kid see these things for 1 minute, then flip them all on the other side.
Ask your kid to flip one picture and the related name according to what he or she remembers. Only one picture and one name can be flipped at a time. For each correct matching, the kid gains a score.
This game is a good memory challenge, but some children may struggle with it. You can reduce or increase the difficulty by reducing or increasing the number of pictures and names.
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You can download the free transportation puzzle printable PDF from the link
Download the Transportation Puzzle Printable PDFBenefits of using puzzles for preschoolers
Using puzzles for learning English is very effective and has many benefits, such as:
- It improves vocabulary in a seamless way. After solving puzzles several times, your kid will be able to use them in his daily expressions.
- Puzzles enhance problem-solving skills; your kid has to relate the word with the picture and the meaning, reject the incorrect word from the selections, and many other ways to solve the puzzles and gain scores.
- A real memory challenge, remembering spelling and meaning is one great result we obtain while playing puzzles.
- Interactivity is the magic that makes your child focus on the educational topic; incorporating activities and games into your lessons adds interactivity to them.
- Improves reading skills; by gathering a lot of vocabulary through puzzles , games, and activities, reading becomes easier.
In conclusion, learning English for preschoolers becomes more effective by incorporating many activities beside school lessons. Our young children learn more when they are having fun. Actually, on the sadeky website, we provide a variety of worksheets and puzzles to help your children learn English. We are happy to receive your suggestions and feedback to improve our content and provide everything you need in terms of educational aids.
