Puzzles and Jigsaws

Playing puzzles with your child can help them to develop their receptive and expressive language (what they understand and what they say).

Playing a simple jigsaw or puzzle can develop many different communication skills, for example attention and listening, turn taking, verbal reasoning, description and positional language.

This website contains a number of different jigsaws ranging from easy to hard. You can use these puzzles as a starting point for a discussion.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/curations/cbeebies-jigsaw-puzzles

https://www.bbc.co.uk/cbbc/puzzles/type/puzzles-and-jigsaws#filter

Tiny Happy People

Another website to help support language development in young children.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/tiny-happy-people/activities/zjh8hbk

This website is full of ideas and activities to help develop your child’s language through play. There are also lots of nursery rhymes and songs that you can sing along with to help your children develop their listening skills.