Fall For Halloween Jigsaw Puzzles

Not only do jigsaw puzzles help as you age, but they are great food for the brains of young people. They aid with the development of spatial awareness, eye movement and eye-hand coordination which helps children when they learn to read. They encourage analytical, abstract, and concrete thinking skills. The youngest children also gain self-confidence and problem solving skills and tend to be are more willing to explore, make mistakes and learn from them.

Jigsaws can have educational content and go so far as to teach basic skills like colors and numbers and about the world arounds us. Further down on this page you will see some great jigsaw puzzles of the human body. Great puzzles make learning these skills fun.

Three and four year old children who worked on puzzles of 100 to 300 pieces learned strategies to talk about the jigsaw puzzle process, the story in the puzzle and experiences a child may have had with relation to the puzzle. A more complex puzzle encourages concentration, coordinating and color matching skills and is fun, too!

There are an endless list of puzzle topics to target the interests of your child. Whatever the interest of your child, there is a puzzle to suit.

Puzzles are also great for us as we age and are proven to help keep older adults minds active. Retirement homes use them to keep the minds of seniors 'alive.'

Jigsaw puzzles are recommended as a method to fight Alzheimers. People who had challenging hobbies like puzzling when they were younger seem to have some protection from Alzheimers.

Puzzles are wonderful social exercises and encourage people to spend more time together. (Turn off the television!) They are a great, inexpensive entertainment source, perfect for any time of the year. They bring people together!

I hope you are in the market for a new puzzle! I found so many great Halloween ones that I created this page just to showcase them.

You will find individual puzzles with a brief description. These ones are available on Amazon and you can buy one or read more information about it by clicking either the picture of the puzzle or the link shown below in orange.

You will also find a great selection of puzzles listed on eBay on assorted Halloween themes like witches, pumpkins and dracula, oh my! Those ones are at auction so if you see one you are interested in, don't let it slip away!

It seemed only fitting to start with the great American classic by Charles Schwartz, "It's The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown!" A fantastic Halloween special, now a wonderful pumpkin-shaped collector's item. Linus awaits the 'Great Pumpkin' in the pumpkin patch - is it really the Great Pumpkin? Comes in a very nice, collectible tin box. This pumpkin-shaped puzzle has 500 pieces.

Click here to buy
It's The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown
from Amazon.

Great fun for a puzzle solving mystery fan! Alfred Hitchcock, is a Classic Mystery Jigsaw Puzzle which comes with a twist. Read the story about a psychopathic killer and then, assemble the puzzle to find the clues. Solve the 'Alfred Hitchcock' by piecing the clues from both the story and puzzle. An added twist to this puzzle - the image is different from the box picture! (When jigsaw puzzles were in there heyday, they were often sold without a picture at all!) This puzzle has 1,000 pieces.

Click here to buy this
Alfred Hitchcock jigsaw puzzle
from Amazon.

Click here to buy this
Wrebbit Puzz 3D
Haunted Victorian House from Amazon.

Victoria Frances is a Spanish artist who creates pictures in the Gothic Romantic Style. Her work is popular around the world and creates beautiful jigsaw puzzles. Set Me Free features a female vampire. It is a 1,500 piece puzzle. Queen of the Outlaws and La Dolorosa are 1,000 piece puzzles that are recommended for individuals 8 years old and up.

Click here to buy
Set Me Free -- Vampire Girl
jigsaw puzzle from Amazon.

Click here to buy
the Queen Of The Outlaws
jigsaw puzzle from Amazon.

Click here to buy
the jigsaw puzzle, La Dolorosa,
from Amazon.

What fun, here you have some favorite, friendly Monsters - Mike and Sulley from the Disney-Pixar movie Monster Inc. together in a great 3D Visions puzzle from Disney! Recommended for individuals 12 years of age and up.

Click here to buy this
Monsters, Inc. puzzle
from Amazon.

A fun puzzle! Children can figure out where all the bones go together with this 4 foot 3 inch puzzle. It will be about the same size as a 6 year old. 15 pieces are made of foam that will not bend. Each piece is marked on the back with the real name for each bone. Recommended for children four to six years old.

Click here to buy this
Skeleton Floor Puzzle
from Amazon.

A unique Jack-O-Lantern jigsaw puzzle created by Platinum Puzzles who make gorgeous, heirloom quality handmade wooden jigsaw puzzles. Be sure to check them out!

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