Cognitive development
Mora’s puzzles
Suggested age: Ages 4 to 10
Drag each piece into place and put the scene together. Which one will you try?
Choose the difficulty
For parents and caregivers
How Mora’s puzzles support your child’s development
Doing a jigsaw puzzle is a full workout for the mind: you have to look closely, imagine where each piece fits and keep going when one doesn’t. Here is how to play, which skills it builds and how to keep going at home.
How to play
Your child picks a level (6, 12 or 20 pieces) and a scene from Mora’s stories. The pieces show up four at a time in a tray and are dragged into place on the board; they can also tap a piece and then tap where it goes. Dropped close to its spot, a piece snaps in; if that’s not the place, it goes back to the tray with no penalty. There is no clock. On easy and medium the board shows the picture faintly as a guide, and on every level they can tap the small picture to see the whole scene for a few seconds.
What they are learning
Puzzles build spatial reasoning: turning and placing shapes in your mind, a skill closely tied to math. They also train visual perception (telling colors, lines and edges apart), sustained attention and frustration tolerance: every piece that doesn’t fit is a chance to try another way.
Ideas to keep going at home
- Ask where it makes sense to start: the corners? a character? a color?
- When they finish, talk about the scene: what is happening? which story is it from?
- Do a cardboard puzzle together and take turns placing the pieces.
- Cut one of their drawings into six parts and let them put it back together.
A tip from Mora: play together for a short while, 5 to 10 minutes, and talk when you finish. Screens work best as a starting point for family conversations rather than as a solo activity: real learning happens in the conversation, which is the heart of the Mora method.