04 Oct Fidget Speed Puzzle Spheres
Fidget Speed Puzzle Spheres
THE BREAKDOWN
Age Group (3+ )
Number of Players: only 1 player is required.
Fidget Speed Puzzle
Tonina Llull
Great for travel as well as for the classroom, after school, and clinical settings -- build speed, fine motor skills, and coordination with this speed puzzle sphere. Also an excellent fidget tool for calming and refocusing between challenging tasks.
Meets Expectations
Durability
Engagement
The Essentials
The objective is easy — scramble the colors and race to get all the balls back into the matching colored ring. It is an excellent entry level puzzle game and the speed component makes it relevant to older children as well.
To move the balls, individuals must isolate the use of their fingers and thumb with the just right amount of pressure. Build bilateral coordination (for tasks best completed with 2 hands), hand skills, sensory processing, and motor speed. This puzzle game can also be categorized a fidget that can calm and refocus between challenging tasks.
Fun Factor
Determination to solve the simple puzzle as fast as possible, is highly engaging for the younger child and even older children who enjoy fidgeting and the opportunity for fast finger/hand actions.
Parents, therapists, and kid consultants, give this game high marks for stress relief, calming and refocusing, building speed, and hand skills, while increasing sticktoitiveness in the novice puzzle solver.
Set-Up and Clean-Up
Set-up, clean-up, and storage of this game is easy. Convenient size for travel and storing in small spaces. Easily sanitized.
The IF-THEN’S and the BUT’S
If you use this game with children under 6 years old, their fingers may be too small and could potentially get stuck, use with close supervision.
If your child, student, or client tends to pick and dig at items, the empty space is filled with spongy-foam and could be a choking hazard if pulled out and placed in their mouth.
Anna Dorne
Posted at 16:50h, 26 NovemberMy son loved playing with this toy.