Popsicle Stick Turtle Puzzle Activity

Engaging your children in Popsicle stick turtle puzzles can be an exciting activity for children to enhance their visual discrimination skills. Simple, yet innovative, they can learn so much more than you would have thought possible:

Suitable for:

This activity is designed for children aged four and above, as they can learn how to match patterns and colors in an easy yet creative way:

What You’ll Learn:

1. Color recognition – Children will learn to recognize colors as they engage in this exciting activity that involves matching colors and patterns on the different Popsicle sticks.

2. Cognitive development – The cognitive development of children can improve further when they participate in this exciting activity, since it involves a lot of concentration and focus to perform it.

3. Shape and pattern recognition – When children are allowed to interact with their learning materials as a part of this activity, they can learn how to recognize shapes and patterns for matching them together.

4. Motor skills – Children can acquire the motor skills that are required to acquire writing skills in the future through this activity, since it involves a lot of movement.

5. Problem solving – As your children engage in this activity, they will learn how to solve problems through the critical thinking skills that they acquire through this activity in the future.

Material required:

1. Popsicle sticks: Keep at least twelve Popsicle sticks ready for this activity.

2. Cutter: For separating the Popsicle sticks that have been stuck together using round stickers by cutting through their middle.

3. Whiteboard markers: For drawing the bodies of the turtles around the stickers

4. Round stickers: For sticking together two Popsicle sticks

The procedure for preparing:

1. Prepare the Popsicle stick puzzle –

Carefully join every two Popsicle sticks out of the twelve Popsicle sticks with round stickers of different colors from the top to the bottom.

2. Draw the turtles’ bodies around the round stickers –

Draw the legs, tails, and heads of the turtles around the round stickers and half the body of a turtle, each on both the Popsicle sticks, stuck together with round (colorful) stickers.

3. Cut the stickers into two halves –

Slice through the middle of the stickers that stick together every two Popsicle sticks using the cutter, such that they serve as a puzzle game activity for matching them to each other later on during the activity. Make sure to separate the sticks and place them next to non-matching Popsicle sticks.

4. Ask your children to participate –

Goad your children to try fitting the different Popsicle sticks together based on their colors and patterns. Let your kids enjoy putting the pieces of the puzzle together.

5. Review and repeat –

Ask your kids to repeat the activity, but make sure that you are reviewing it every time they perform it.

Putting together the pieces of a puzzle can be a fun way to acquire pattern, color, and design recognition skills. The more your children perform this activity, the more their skills will be honed.