For toddlers, learning isn’t just during a moment of time during the day. It’s an all day everyday adventure filled with exciting opportunities to identify the world around them. With a toddler education, every area in their little world is in the developmental process as they work on valuable skills in order to become adept at life in general. Some of these skills are logical reasoning, critical thinking, and visual and spatial perception, all skills in which you’ll find with Timberdoodle’s Bunny Peek-A-Boo puzzle game, a delightful brain puzzle for toddlers that specifically target thinking skills.
About Bunny Peek-A-Boo – A Preschool Puzzle Game
With Bunny Peek-A-Boo, toddlers have 60 different opportunities to stack the objects in the game. The focus of this game is for kids to thinking critically about all the ways they could use the objects. The objects included are a pack of 60 cards and high quality, beautiful wooden blocks extremely smooth by touch. These objects are:
- The sweet Wooden Bunny
- Red wooden bridge block
- Yellow wooden block with a circle in the middle
- Blue 4-side wooden cube, with only the 4 sides included and varying shaped holes on each side (with top and bottom of cube not there)
This fun puzzle game enables children of around 2 and 3 years old (and even 4 year olds) to think critically in order to figure out how to assemble the arrangements of blocks to match the card. As the child thinks through these puzzles, they’re building their logical and reasoning skill, a skill needed for several areas in life, such as competency and determining right from wrong.
Building these skills will also help them in their academics as well as for figuring out tough situations in life. Which we all know are guaranteed to come more than once!
Bunny Peek-A-Boo can be obtained individually or you can get it with Timberdoodle’s Preschool Curriculum Kit! I have found that all Timberdoodle educational resources, such as Bunny Peek-A-Bo,o are of the highest quality, so I’m not surprised that this preschool puzzle game is also made of high-quality material.
And I wouldn’t be surprised, either, that everything included inside the Preschool Curriculum Kit is also made of high-quality material. Timberdoodle truly wants their little learners to have the best educational resources – it’s obviously by the various resources I’ve obtained from Timberdoodle! There are a ton more resources included in the Preschool Curriculum Kit, everything your little preschooler will need including the Bunny Peek-A-Boo puzzle game. Learn more about the Preschool Curriculum Kit here.
How To Play Timberdoodle’s Bunny Peek-A-Boo
The object of the game is to mirror the card with your wooden items. When the front of the blocks matches the picture in the card, then the child correctly assembled the puzzle for that card. Place that card aside or under the stack and draw another card, which will be a different assembly of the blocks for the child to mirror.
They have 60 cards to draw from, which means there are 60 different ways to arrange the blocks to match the cards, giving your little one amazing practice to strengthen his or her developmental skills.
Using Bunny Peek-A-Boo with My Toddler, Scout
Scout is our beloved toddler at our home. He is two years and five months old. For some reason, it seems different this time around raising a third toddler. I guess it’s because I’m older now as my first toddler is now 10-years-old and my second toddler is now 9-years-old! Not too big of a gap between ages but it’s no small gap either.
Ten years old I wasn’t as wise about developmental skills as I am now. Heck, ten years ago I didn’t even know what homeschooling really was, let alone be doing it with my children! But as you know, we learn every day and within every season of our lives. And in this season of my life, I feel a lot more certain and wiser this time around about the direction I’m taking to raise my third toddler.
How Scout Uses This Puzzle Toy for Toddlers
Scout showed signs early on of interest in the world around him. He seems to always ask “what’s that?” and he’ll almost always name everything he comes into contact with, pretty much telling me he knows what that is and at the same time making sure he’s correct about it. I love his way of reinforcing his learned knowledge and I happily answer him, encourage him, and/or congratulate him every time.
With Bunny Peek-A-Boo, he was immediately interested in this game. He already loves blocks and legos, so introducing these wooden objects to him was an excellent next step. Right away he started stacking the wooden blocks in varying ways without even knowing to mirror the cards.
He especially liked the wooden bunny too, but I could see he also equally liked the other unique shaped blocks as well. He didn’t have any blocks like the ones that come with Bunny Peek-A-Boo so we it was a real treat for him when he got this game.
How I Introduced How To Play Bunny Peek-A-Boo To My Toddler
He was happily stacking and rebuilding the wooden blocks on his own without the use of the cards. But that’s not the point of this puzzle game. I pulled out the stack of 60 cards and showed him about twenty different cards, one at a time, pointing out the different positions of the wooden blocks in each card.
Then I mirrored a few cards myself with blocks. Once the blocks were mirroring the card, I would point out how the blocks look exactly like the card.
After I mirrored the cards a few times with the blocks, then I started involving him with building the blocks. I talked him through what we were doing and I would encourage him on his chosen ways to position the blocks to match the card.
I never discouraged him or criticized him for his efforts, of course. That’s just plain awful and is counter-productive on what we’re trying to achieve here. When he did get something wrong, such as the incorrect placement of a block or the bunny, I would just simply say, “Are you sure that goes right there?” or “Does that match what’s on the card?” or even “Uh oh, I don’t think that’s a match. Why don’t you try it this way…”
Sometimes I would show him or give him the answers to match the card, which to me is just fine. I’m a big believer in assisting those visual learners who need to see an example – or a few examples – in order to learn how to do something. Now, although it’s too soon to determine what type of learner Scout is, I like to show him how something could be done so that when he does it next time he’ll know how to properly do it.
And this is how we went about the first few days of playing Bunny Peek-A-Boo! Admittedly, he didn’t match his blocks with the cards for a few weeks on his own. He still didn’t quite grasp the object of the game or how to match it.
But I tell you, kids soak up information when you’re not realizing it. It was until about a month later he was playing with Bunny Peek-A-Boo when I noticed he matched the blocks completely with the card! He had started to pull out the cards himself, out of a plastic sleeve-type bag I keep them in, and playing with it. So on the day when I saw he actually matched it up himself all on his own, I was thrilled! And he was one proud tot.
Each time he pulled out Bunny Peek-A-Boo his brain was working to develop more of those logical skills. And from developing the critically necessary skill of 3-D spatial perception, he will grasp mathematics and reading a lot stronger.
A Fun Brain Puzzle Toy for Toddlers – Bunny Peek-A-Boo
We enjoyed Bunny Peek-A-Boo in our home and I know you would too! If you have a toddler at home, strengthen these vital developmental skills with this preschool puzzle game by Timberdoodle. You will be utterly surprised and impressed, like I was, to witness the growth of your toddler’s little brain! To learn more about Bunny Peek-A-Boo, visit Timberdoodle’s Bunny Peek-A-Boo page!
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