January 29th Is National Puzzle Day
January 29th Is National Puzzle Day
Puzzles may take some time to put together but they are fun and engaging. The puzzles may be jigsaw puzzles, crossword puzzles, word searches or brain teasers, but they encourage us to think. Research indicates that we use both sides of the brain when we work on jigsaw puzzles and that doing puzzles improves our memories, our cognitive function and our problem solving skills. Puzzles are beneficial for people of all ages. Jigsaw puzzles help our short term memories. Word puzzles like crossword puzzles and word searches also help us by improving our language and vocabulary skills.
Puzzles are both stimulating mentally and psychologically relaxing and they also stimulate the production of dopamine. Doing puzzles reduces stress and boosts self confidence. Putting puzzles together improves our memories, cognitive function, visual perception and coordination. So working with puzzles is calming and therapeutic. Playing with puzzles helps children to develop spatial skills and spatial awareness. Playing with puzzles helps kids to develop their hand eye coordination, motor skills, problem solving, shape recognition, memory and goal setting.
When doing puzzles both sides of the brain are working together. While the right side deals with creativity, emotions and intuitive thought the left side is orderly, logical and systematic. Because both sides are functioning together, and the occipital lobe is involved with matching colors and shapes you are using and stimulating your brain and getting a mental workout. Doing puzzles also exercises the part of your brain involved with retention and improves your memory. The mental stimulation and exercise of puzzles helps to develop skills and awareness in youngsters and to prevent cognitive decline in older people.
You can do puzzles online at Puzzles.com and JigsawExplorer.com. It may be puzzling but you may want to get or give some puzzles for National Puzzle Day. National Puzzle Day has a Gifty Rating of 3 Giftys on the holiday website Giftypedia. You can look at Giftypedia for information about holidays and for gift suggestions. You can also see holidays that are similar to the holiday you are reading about.
http://www.Giftypedia.com/Puzzle_Day
http://www.NationalDayCalendar.com/national-puzzle-day-january-29/
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You can make photos into puzzles on Zazzle. Zazzle membership is free. Here is a link to some puzzles on Zazzle. They can be customized and personalized with text and images. http://www.Zazzle.com/puzzle+gifts/?rf=238325954567677810